Prepare for New Relic Now+: Product Releases and Essential Upgrades

On February 25, New Relic is hosting New Relic Now+, an event where we'll unveil new product innovations designed to enhance your observability capabilities. This post guides you through what to expect and how to prepare your environment for these upcoming changes.

What's Happening at New Relic Now+

The event will feature:

1. New company announcements
2. Showcases of our latest product innovations
3. Expert guidance on implementing new features

These innovations aim to address common business challenges and improve your ability to create better digital experiences for your customers.

Preparing Your Environment

To ensure you can immediately benefit from these new features, take the following steps before the event:

1. Agent management: 
   • Update your browser agent to version 1.268.0 or newer, with Pro | SPA+ enabled.
   • Update your mobile agents for Android to version 7.6.0 or newer and iOS to version 7.5.1 or newer.
   • Update your infrastructure agents on your hosts to version 1.59.0 or newer.
2. Check user permissions:
   • Verify that your custom roles have the Live Chart URL permission enabled. (This permission is disabled on every default role.) 
   • Be aware of the new standard role and default access grants, which will provide users with access to new capabilities. (If you would like to limit access, Admins must make necessary changes to custom groups and roles.)
3. Set up distributed tracing:
   • Verify that distributed tracing is enabled on your APM agents. (This setting is enabled by default on all APM agents for the last several years.)
4. Review cloud integrations:
   • If applicable, integrate your AWS MSK clusters (using either CloudWatch Metric Streams or traditional API polling) with New Relic.
5. Review your tagging policies:
   • Ensure your entities are tagged with ownership. We recommend using the key: team, but any key you’re already using works.

Completing these tasks now will position you to take full advantage of the new features as soon as they're available.

Support Available

If you need assistance with any of these preparations, our support team is ready to help. Don't hesitate to reach out with questions or concerns through our community. 

Register for New Relic Now+ today to stay ahead of the curve in observability innovation. We look forward to sharing these exciting developments with you on February 25.