New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and instrumentation

Re:New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and... by thejonanshow on Monday August 03, 2020 @07:35PM (#24044771)

Stagnant seems like an overstatement given 500 commits on one of the agents alone in the last month. There is surely a way to criticize without devaluing the unread contributions of literally hundreds of developers.

I personally am much more motivated by seeing customers encouraged to add support for their favorite libraries and frameworks than scoring their sweet free codes, but I suppose there is potentially a sinister motive behind everything in life... like open source.

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Re:New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and... by liveoneggs on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:18PM (#24053498)

I suppose I am just frustrated by things like no modern solr support, no support for jenkins when datadog has a great plugin, and not great support for non-web analytics (at least with python and php which I have plugged into it).

Also you can't copy/query things in from cloudwatch; they just started supporting EFS/NFS statistics recently after losing them for almost a year when they killed the old infrastructure agent vs the new one (reduction in features on new product!)

When I brought up my frustrations with the product after coming back to it after a few years away they told me "it was all necessary to support kubernetes"

I guess my tastes in frameworks don't match theirs? They keep cashing the checks though.

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Re:New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and... by liveoneggs on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:25PM (#24055582)

let me restate -- I'll bet frustrated customers do contribute enhancements but they will be ignored

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