Observability platforms serve as insurance for large systems and applications, allowing businesses to analyze and predict system behavior and prevent potential outages or problems.

New Relic Inc. works to develop cloud-based observability software, equipping clients with peace of mind and alleviating insecurity. Recently, the company announced a five-year strategic agreement with Amazon Web Services Inc. to make it easier for organizations to adopt New Relic if their using AWS products.

“That’s all designed to help people, software developers in particular, focus on what matters most to them, which is building great experiences for their customers,” said Buddy Brewer (pictured), global vice president and general manager at New Relic. “Our mission at New Relic is to make observability a daily data-driven habit for developers across all phases of the software delivery life cycle.”

Brewer spoke with Lisa Martin, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during AWS re:Invent. They discussed the company’s new agreement with AWS, the New Relic Instant Observability, the future of observability and more. (* Disclosure below.)

Evading disaster

New Relic’s goal is to make observability a daily data-driven habit for developers across all phases of the software delivery life cycle. Today, observability platforms are used sparingly or when there’s an issue already, not taking advantage of its ability to predict issues, according to Brewer.

“Partnerships like AWS allow us to unlock the accessibility of that data across all of those different phases,” he said.

New Relic launched a reimagined version of its partner ecosystem last October, called New Relic Instant Observability. One of the central goals of New Relic IO is to reduce the time it takes businesses to instrument something to about five minutes.

“In the old way, if people wanted observability, they had to go learn about an observability vendor then they had to go install it, figure out how all that works, and then they could get to solving their problem, which might’ve just been instrumenting a Kafka,” Brewer explained. “If all you wanted to do is instrument Kafka, then go find the Kafka instrumentation file on New Relic Instant Observability, and there’s a guided install process that takes you through that.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (* Disclosure: New Relic Inc, sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither New Relic nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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