Here's one of the UI pages you can find in a workload: a map showing the workload entities. This becomes more and more important the bigger your organization is. Our workloads feature lets you group together related entities in ways that make sense to your business. When you're in the UI for a specific monitored entity, you can click Service map to see a visual map of how that service relates to other monitored entities. That shows you traces that involve that specific entity. You can also go to a specific monitored entity (for example, an APM-monitored app) and click Distributed tracing there. This shows you traces from across your accounts and entities. For global distributed tracing, go to: > Traces.There are a few ways to get to distributed tracing: For more on using this feature, see Distributed tracing. Distributed tracingĭistributed tracing is powerful for helping you dig down into a specific kind of transaction and see the various calls and components involved in that activity. Let's look at a few features related to that. One of the most powerful aspects of New Relic is how it lets you tie together all the components in your system and understand how they're connected. This is focused on changes in performances: it draws your attention to entities that have undergone significant shifts in important metrics. We also have New Relic Lookout, which is another visual way to quickly see how your whole system is doing. Hover over various entities to see more detail about their status. New Relic Navigator is meant to give you a more visual overview of your system based on alerting status. Where it says List in the top right, you can also switch to the Navigator and Lookout experiences, which are also helpful for understanding your entire system at a glance. Note you can also scroll up and down the left-side entity category menu, as another way to browse all the things you monitor.

For any category, you can click View all to see more entities in that category. If you have many monitored entities, it may show you only a few in each category, with a priority on those that have had alerting violations. The list view shows you a synopsis of all the things you're monitoring, broken up into categories ( learn about these categories). See how List is selected in the upper right? When you click All entities, you're in what we call the Entity explorer view, also know as the Entity list view. We also use it to refer to a component that contains New Relic data, such as a New Relic custom dashboard or a workload. We use the term entity to refer to something that New Relic monitors, whether that's an application, a host, a database service, or something else. To get a sense of how your entire system is doing, click All entities. The List, Navigator, and Lookout views help you quickly understand what's going on with your entire system.

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