New Relic Improves Service and Reduces Price

We're happy to announce that New Relic has dropped the price of the Professional add-on plan from $45/month to $19/month per worker unit. Over the years New Relic has proven to be a really useful tool for many of our customers, and we're pleased that this price drop will make the features of New Relic Professional more accessible to everyone using AppHarbor.

Highlights of the Professional plan include:

• Unlimited data retention
• Real User Monitoring (RUM) and browser transaction tracing
• Application transaction tracing, including Key Transactions and Cross Application Tracing
• Advanced SQL and slow SQL analysis

You can find more information about the benefits of New Relic Pro on the New Relic website (http://newrelic.com/pricing/details).

Service update

The New Relic agent was recently upgraded to a newer version which brings support for some recently introduced features as well as a bunch of bug fixes. Time spent in the request queue is now reported and exposed directly in the New Relic interface. Requests are rarely queued for longer than a few milliseconds, but it can happen if your workers are under load. When more time is spent in the request queue it may be an indicator that you need to scale your application to handle the load efficiently.

We're also making a few changes to the way the New Relic profiler is initialized with your applications. This is particularly relevant if you've subscribed to New Relic directly rather than installing the add-on through AppHarbor. Going forward you'll need to add a NewRelic.LicenseKey configuration variable to make sure the profiler is attached to your application. We recommend that you make this change as soon as possible. If you're subscribed to the add-on through AppHarbor no action is required and the service will continue to work as usual.