New Relic APM & AI Monitoring – Zero to Expert (2026)

Master New Relic APM, alerts, dashboards, NRQL, SLOs and AI

1. Understanding APM and New Relic:

   • Basic and advanced concepts of APM and New Relic tool usage.

   • Four Golden Signals of Monitoring

2. Building APM with New Relic:

   • Step-by-step guide to building APM for your application from scratch.

3. APM Service Monitoring:

   • Monitoring Transactions, Traces, and Errors, including .NET Core API and SQL service layer.

4. New Relic AI usage

   • Discover how New Relic AI (NRAI) simplifies observability tasks across your system, from generating queries to analyzing error logs and suggesting tailored dashboard insights, with just a click.

5. APM Services:

   • Database monitoring, distributed tracing, and triaging errors.

   • Adding custom metrics and custom exceptions to transactions

6. Creating Alerts:

   • Setting up alerts for request latency, error rate, specific API endpoints, SQL query duration, and host data reporting.

   • We will undestand basic Definitions, Policies, Conditions, Workflows, Destinations, Incidents and Issues.

   • Creating Postmortem after issue close

7. Synthetic Monitoring:

   • Performing API and availability alerting with notification using GET/Post methods.

8. Creating Dashboards:

   • Designing dashboards with widgets for response time, error rate, AppDex, host graph usage, service map usage, and applying formulas.

   • Pre-build dashboards and variable usages

9. New Relic Agent Installations and Configurations:

   • Installing agents, configuring settings, and querying basic metrics.

10. Understanding SLA, SLO, SLI, and Error Budget:

    • Creating New Relic SLO/SLI for success rate (DevOps).

    • SLA Reports

11. Integration with Emails and Slack:

    • Integrating monitors with emails and Slack for streamlined communication.

12. Monitoring Application Aspects:

    • Tracking availability, reliability, scalability, and duration.

13. Visualizing Request Paths:

    • Visualizing the entire request path to identify bottlenecks and errors quickly.

14. Administration:

    • Managing user preferences, plan usage, data usage, and access management

15. Understading New Relic Query Language (NRQL) with APM Key Metrics