Introducing Comparative Charting Between New Relic Browser and Synthetics

When you’re trying to solve a web application performance issue, you don’t really care what product the data comes from. You just need insight about what’s working on your site and what went wrong.

Introducing comparative charting between Browser and Synthetics

New Relic understands this, which is why we are working to break down the silos that separate our products and how they display data. Step one is comparative charting, a new way to view real user information along with synthetic monitoring information between New Relic Browser and New Relic Synthetics.

This new comparative charting feature is a big step toward making this silo-less vision a reality. Comparative charting makes Browser and Synthetics data available in both contexts in a single chart. That means you can now see real user activity from New Relic Browser and proactive baseline data from New Relic Synthetics, together at the same time.

Comparative charting reduces the need to jump between products when you want to view Browser or Synthetics data, and it supports a more intuitive understanding of where performance issues may lie. Think of it as a differential diagnosis for your application.

In an effort to ship fast and learn from our customers, we kept the first iteration of comparative charting lean, focusing on leveraging currently available data. In the future we may consider additional tools for filtering and faceting in useful ways as well as expanding this sort of comparative visualization across other parts of the New Relic Digital Intelligence Platform.

When to use comparative charting

There are many possible use cases for comparative charting. Operations managers might use comparative charting to compare trends revealed in Synthetics to Browser data during a period of performance degradation. This could make it easier to see if the issue is more likely to come from its origin, the content delivery network (CDN), or the “last mile” to the browser. Figuring out where to look first can help reduce the time it takes to diagnose the issue and therefore shorten the mean time to resolution (MTTR).

Using New Relic Browser and New Relic Synthetics together like this can help provide a more complete understanding of frontend performance than real user monitoring (RUM) or synthetic monitoring can provide alone. Bringing both views together into a single chart was a no-brainer in our mission to help our customers enjoy the most complete customer experience monitoring possible.

Comparative charting will be available soon in-product for all current New Relic Synthetics and New Relic Browser users. Learn more about out comparative charting feature by reading our documentation and by visiting the New Relic Online Technical Community.

Forward-Looking Statements

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