Building a custom application with New Relic engineers

As part of our monitoring initiative, we worked with New Relic engineers to build our own custom application running on New Relic. We call it the GAME Board, which stands for global application monitoring experience. GAME Board serves as our one-stop shop for observability for our applications, whether they are in the cloud or on premises.

GAME Board gives us an instant view of which applications are running in a healthy state and which are unhealthy, or not working at all. If there is an issue that impacts an application, we're immediately alerted, and we can prioritize a rapid response to get the situation corrected before it affects our users and the BASF user experience.

Centralizing our view across multiple clouds-with cost and metrics

Another reason we chose New Relic is its deep integration with the cloud services we rely on, namely Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). In AWS, for example, New Relic provides us with at least 50 key metrics. We get visibility into app health in one central place regardless of the environment where the app is running.

It's not just about the number of metrics available automatically. We can also gain visibility into core metrics such as cloud costs, which helps us make business decisions. As with any huge environment, there are multiple cloud subscriptions. Going into each subscription manually to calculate the cost versus the expected output, whether that be the number of users or a monetary amount, is cumbersome and time-consuming. With New Relic, we developed a centralized cost dashboard to see all of our subscriptions and total costs in one place.

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