New Relic Introduces Low-Overhead Kubernetes Monitoring
May 18 2022 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
New Relic reinforces commitment to open
observability by announcing support for Pixie plugin to easily
integrate data from open standards into New Relic
KUBECON EU—New Relic (NYSE: NEWR), the observability
company, announced a series of product innovations and enhancements
at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 to help millions of
engineers take a daily, data-driven approach to Kubernetes
observability. New Relic re-architected its Kubernetes integration
to reduce the overhead associated with monitoring Kubernetes
environments with an improved memory footprint, flexible scraping
intervals, and more. In addition, New Relic announced plugin
support for Pixie, an open source observability tool for
Kubernetes, to give New Relic users unlimited access to the latest
Pixie innovation directly inside the New Relic platform. These
innovations are included as an essential part of the all-in-one New
Relic observability platform that allows engineers to get 3X+ more
value than the competition.
According to industry data from the Cloud Native Computing
Foundation (CNCF) and New Relic, container and Kubernetes adoption
is mainstream, with 93% of organizations around the world using or
planning to use containers in production, and 96% of organizations
using or evaluating Kubernetes. As organizations accelerate their
adoption of Kubernetes, the right monitoring architecture needs to
be in place to minimize the consumption of access resources.
Monitoring tools, with non-optimized agents and DaemonSet
architectures, consume excessive cluster resources, adding
unnecessary overhead and expense. Separately, as companies grow
their Kubernetes footprints in many clusters, many choose to use
solutions such as Rancher to manage their growing landscape.
Without the ability to monitor external control planes, these
organizations miss important performance signals. New Relic’s
latest innovations — the Kubernetes integration and Pixie plugin —
fill this gap by giving every engineer access to industry-leading
Kubernetes observability right from the New Relic UI.
“Kubernetes provides incredibly powerful tooling for running
workloads. Its configurability, extensibility, and expressiveness
give us more power than ever to structure, optimize, and scale our
applications,” said Zain Asgar, New Relic GVP & Product GM,
Pixie co-founder, and CNCF Governing Board member. “New Relic
and Pixie have a joint mission to be developer-first, which means
first class support for Kubernetes. We are proud to bring
Kubernetes observability to every engineer at every stage of the
software lifecycle, right from the KubeCon stage.”
Kubernetes integration updates:
- Reduced memory footprint: Avoid data duplication while
scraping kube-state-metrics (KSM) and control plane components to
reduce memory consumption by 80% in big clusters.
- Support for control planes: Ensure clusters are
maintained in accordance with your security, compliance or
governance policies by supporting external control planes like
Rancher Kubernetes Engine.
- Flexible scraping intervals: Dial up or dial down data
ingest to find the right balance between data granularity and
managing data ingest costs.
- Improved troubleshooting: Triage bugs and fix issues
quicker with enhanced logs and process cycles.
- Easier configuration: Three individually-configurable
components are now available, including support for config files
that provide more granular settings.
Pixie plugin framework:
By supporting the Pixie plugin framework, New Relic is unlocking
access to Pixie’s capabilities directly inside of the New Relic UI.
With this release, the New Relic Pixie integration is optimized to
bring a subset of Pixie data off-cluster into New Relic for long
term storage and retention, and as new capabilities are deployed
they will be available to engineers using New Relic. New Relic is
also providing users access to longer data retention and
enterprise-grade alerting directly inside Pixie, so users can be
alerted immediately when system performance suffers, and they'll be
able to go beyond real-time debugging to analyze performance over
longer time horizons.
With these releases, New Relic is activating its commitment to
make observability a daily, data-driven habit for every engineer by
continuing to invest heavily in the global open source and
cloud-native communities. Since 2020, New Relic open sourced more
than ten years of agents R&D, acquired Pixie Labs and
contributed Pixie as an open source project to the CNCF, and
launched New Relic Instant Observability, the industry’s largest
open source ecosystem of quickstarts and integrations. Today’s news
is the continuation of this strategy to dramatically reduce the
barrier for engineers to adopt Kubernetes observability.
New Relic’s Kubernetes integration is generally available today,
and New Relic's Pixie Plugin will be generally available in early
June, as part of the New Relic platform — the only all-in-one
observability platform for all telemetry data with a secure
telemetry cloud, powerful full-stack analysis tools and predictable
consumption pricing instead of disjointed SKU bundles. Check out
the Pixie blog for more information about the plugin system. For
more information about instant Kubernetes observability with Pixie,
visit https://newrelic.com/platform/kubernetes-pixie.
About New Relic As a leader in observability, New Relic
empowers engineers with a data-driven approach to planning,
building, deploying, and running great software. New Relic delivers
the only unified data platform that empowers engineers to get all
telemetry—metrics, events, logs, and traces—paired with powerful
full stack analysis tools to help engineers do their best work with
data, not opinions. Delivered through the industry’s first
usage-based consumption pricing that’s intuitive and predictable,
New Relic gives engineers more value for the money by helping
improve planning cycle times, change failure rates, release
frequency, and mean time to resolution. This helps the world’s
leading brands including American Red Cross, Australia Post, Banco
Inter, Chegg, Gojek, Signify Health, TopGolf, World Fuel Services
(WFS), and Zalora improve uptime, reliability, and operational
efficiency to deliver exceptional customer experiences that fuel
innovation and growth. www.newrelic.com.
Forward-looking statements This press release contains
“forward-looking” statements, as that term is defined under the
federal securities laws, including but not limited to statements
regarding New Relic’s Kubernetes integration and related product
enhancements, including any anticipated benefits, results and
future opportunities related thereto. The achievement or success of
the matters covered by such forward-looking statements are based on
New Relic’s current assumptions, expectations, and beliefs and are
subject to substantial risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and
changes in circumstances that may cause New Relic’s actual results,
performance, or achievements to differ materially from those
expressed or implied in any forward-looking statement. Further
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from time to time, including in New Relic’s most recent Form 10-K
and Form 10-Q, particularly under the captions “Risk Factors” and
“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations.” Copies of these documents may be obtained
by visiting New Relic’s Investor Relations website at
http://ir.newrelic.com or the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. New
Relic assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these
forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
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