New Relic : Better monitoring for your Netlify sites with log drains for New Relic One

Netlify is a web developer platform that makes your applications more performant by pre-rendering static content and decoupling your services. It's a powerful workflow that improves developer productivity, but you can't access your traffic logs through the Netlify UI, and your function logs are only available for up to 7 days. That means you need a monitoring tool like New Relic One to store and analyze your data.

Today, we are announcing that you can capture Netlify web traffic and serverless function logs in the New Relic by connecting to Netlify Log Drains. With New Relic, you can monitor, visualize, and set alerts based on web traffic and function performance data, allowing you to optimize your Netlify applications and fix issues proactively.

• User traffic monitoring: Identify traffic from bots and bad actors, which can help your security and compliance engineers proactively defend your sites.
• Access and analyze your Netlify traffic logs: Traffic logs are only accessible through log drains, not the Netlify UI. Through New Relic you can analyze things like abnormalities, rate changes, or success rate percentage on your Netlify traffic logs.
• Long-term log retention: For Netlify Enterprise accounts, the Netlify console only provides up to seven days of storage for function logs. With New Relic, you get long-term cold storage for your Netlify log data, and the ability to make month-over-month comparisons.
• User agent analytics: Analyze your user agents for performance issues.
• Session tracking: Gain insight into user activity and journeys across your sites.

Let's take a more detailed look at how ingesting your Netlify logs in New Relic helps you monitor your Netlify applications.