New Relic launches change tracking for application observability

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Full application observability provider New Relic has announced a new "change tracking" solution to strengthen its core platform and provide engineers with a better way to dig deeper into changes impacting their technology stack .

Enterprises are now striving to innovate and keep their applications and underlying infrastructure competitive in every way possible. This change triggered massive increases in the volume of changes pushed into the stack. And, with that comes the possibility of additional performance issues.

Today, when there are multiple changes in the stack, isolating the ones that are specifically causing problems can be a daunting task. Teams must manually correlate issues with introduced changes to narrow down suspects. This increases downtime and reduces revenue.

This is one of the driving forces behind the rise of application observability software. Gartner estimates that by 2024, 30% of enterprises working with distributed systems architectures will adopt observability techniques to improve the performance of digital business services.

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To address the lack of full-stack observability, New Relic, which offers a cloud-based observability tool to help enterprises detect performance anomalies and errors in applications and infrastructure, launched a track changes feature.

The solution provides visibility into change events across the stack, the company says. This allows engineers to track any changes to their software systems, from deployments to configuration changes to business events. Tracking displays sources in the context of their performance data, including deep links, CI/CD metadata, commits, and related entities.

These features support quick troubleshooting and improve deployment efficiency. This allows engineers to quickly understand the impact of a change and undo what caused the instability or unavailability of a given application or infrastructure.

Change tracking is connected to the entire CI/CD toolchain and displays clickable markers on performance graphs to correlate the effect of a change over time on errors, logs, anomalies or incidents. Additionally, users receive real-time change notifications for quick context into the change made and the issue it caused.

New Relic Change Tracking is now available to all users of the New Relic Core Application Observability Platform. In fact, some organizations have already taken the ability to perform a test drive. These include 10x Banking, CircleCI, FARFETCH and JobCase.

“New Relic change tracking allows us to track all deployments across all of our services to detect spikes in error rates and troubleshoot with in-context logs for incidents related to changes,” Sonal Samal, release manager at 10x Banking, said in a statement.

Change tracking is a notable addition, as New Relic continues to compete with several companies in the application observability space, including Dynatrace,