NewRelic Interview Questions and Answer Part – 1

Which are not the components of NewRelic?

• APM
• Infrastrcuture
• Mobile
• Datalog

Answer- Datalog

Is it a right defintion of NewRelic One?
New Relic One lets you find, visualize, and understand everything that’s happening across your software environment.

Answer- YES

Is it right definition of NewRelic APL?
Instantly understand app log performance, dependencies, and bottlenecks

Answer- No

Is it right defintion of transaction?
In New Relic APM, a transaction is defined as one logical unit of work in a software application. It usually refers to a web transaction, which represents activity in an application between the application receiving a web request and a response being sent.
Answer- YES

Which are not a type of transactions in NewRelic?

• Web
• No Web
• Node

Answer- Node

Is it right defintion of Web Transaction Percentiles of green line?
The green line represents the average response time, which corresponds to the green area of the first graph. Here we see that in fact it states transactions take an average of under 2 secs to complete.
Answer- YES

Is it right defintion of Web Transaction Percentiles of orange-ish line?
The orange-ish line, that corresponds to the “85%”. This is the key to understanding how all this numbers come together. This “85%” corresponds to the “85th percentile” of your requests. This means that 85% of your requests take less than this time. But of course it also means 5% of your requests are taking more than that!

Answer- No

Is it right defintion of Web Transaction Percentiles of blue line?
The blue line, corresponding to the “99%” or “99th percentile” of your requests, this meaning that 99% of your requests are taking less than this line, but again, 1% is taking more.
Answer- YES

Is it a right defintion of Apdex score?
Your Apdex score measures users’ satisfaction with the response time of your web applications and services. The dissatisfaction score is the difference between a perfect Apdex score (1.0) and your app’s apdex_t (“tolerating”) score based on your Apdex settings.
Answer- YES

What is the right config file name of Newrelic Agent?

• newrelic.yml
• newrelic.conf
• newrelic.prop
• newrelic.json

Answer- newrelic.yml

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