Environment As-built for New Relic

An inventory of what is configured across every account your key can see. It collects on first open, stores the result, and collects again by itself once the stored copy is more than 7 days old, so opening this screen is normally instant. Re-collect ignores that window.

Configured, not busy

These are counts of things that exist, read from the entity catalog. That is deliberately different from counting what reported in the last 24 hours, which undercounts anything idle or disabled, and undercounts most severely where the problem is worst. One account here holds 344 alert conditions of which only a handful ever fire; an activity based count would report it as almost empty.

The arrows

Each summary tile compares against the previous stored inventory, with the change and percentage on hover. Direction is reported without judgment, since whether more hosts is good or bad depends entirely on what you expected. With only one inventory stored there is nothing to compare against and the arrows are absent.

The trend lines

Under each summary tile is the same figure over the last six months, one point for each inventory taken, with the change from the first of them to the latest. Each line is drawn between its own lowest and highest value rather than from zero, because these counts move by a few percent on a base of thousands and would all be flat otherwise; the percentage says how big the move is, and hovering a point gives its date and figure. The totals of every inventory are kept for this for a little over a year, though the inventories themselves are not. The line starts with the first inventory this X-RAMP took, so a new installation shows a short line that lengthens week by week.

What is excluded

Incidents and anomalies are left out of the entity totals. They are events rather than built things, and one account alone carries over three hundred thousand open issues, which would swamp every other figure.

Ingest per account comes from consumption data through a rollup account, so it costs one query for the whole estate rather than one per account.