New Relic and Agentic DevOps with Nic Benders

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of observability in complex software systems and features Nic Benders from New Relic.

Observability emerged from the need to understand complex software systems, and involves tracking metrics, logs, and traces so engineers can detect and diagnose problems before they affect users. However, modern applications often encompass hundreds of services, containers, and dependencies, generating more observability data than dashboards and alerts alone can effectively surface. New Relic is a

People in this episode

Guest: Nic Benders

Topics covered

• observability
• software systems
• metrics
• logs
• traces
• DevOps

Keywords

• New Relic
• Agentic DevOps
• complex applications
• monitoring

Mentioned in this episode

Products: New Relic

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