What is tornado?

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. By using non-blocking network I/O, Tornado can scale to tens of thousands of open connections, making it ideal for long polling, WebSockets, and other applications that require a long-lived connection to each user.

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Leverage community expertise and instantly get value out of your telemetry data. This quickstart automatically instruments tornado with the New Relic Python agent, and allows you to instantly monitor your Python application with out-of-the-box dashboards and alerts. Further leverage New Relic's APM capabilities by setting up errors inbox, transaction tracing, and service maps.\n\n## More info\n\nCheck out the documentation to learn more about New Relic monitoring for tornado."