New Relic
Integrating NetFlow Optimizer (NFO) with New Relic provides a holistic view of your digital ecosystem, allowing you to correlate application performance with real-time network telemetry. By streaming enriched network flows into New Relic, teams can finally answer whether a performance dip is caused by application code or an underlying network bottleneck.
The NFO Advantage for New Relic
New Relic's pricing and performance are optimized for high-value telemetry. NFO ensures your network data fits this model by refining it before ingestion.
- Cost-Effective Visibility: NFO aggregates and deduplicates raw flow data at the source—reducing volume by 80% to 90%. This allows you to monitor your entire network without exceeding your New Relic data ingestion limits.
- Network-to-App Correlation: Enrich network logs with metadata (DNS, VM names, User Identity) so they can be easily linked to New Relic APM entities and Infrastructure metrics.
- Structured Insights: By delivering data in a format ready for the New Relic Logs platform, NFO enables instant alerting and dashboarding without complex manual parsing.
Integration Architecture
NFO acts as a specialized telemetry processor that feeds the New Relic Infrastructure Agent.
- Ingest: NFO collects flows (NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow) from your routers, switches, and firewalls.
- Refine: Data is aggregated to reduce noise and enriched with identity context.
- Forward: NFO sends logs via UDP to the New Relic Infrastructure Agent (or a dedicated syslog collector).
- Analyze: Use New Relic’s NRQL and pre-built visualizations to hunt for threats and troubleshoot latency.
Get Started
Deployment & Configuration
Follow our technical guide to set up the New Relic Infrastructure Agent and configure NFO for seamless data delivery.