New Relic: Can alert be created for custom metrics?

Question

New Relic gives support for server monitoring alerts out of the box for the followings: CPU busy Disk busy Memory used Disk space used

Can we also add alert for other types of metrics (like custom metrics)? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

For web transactions that are not custom metrics, you can make them into Key Transactions and set alerts and alert thresholds for those Key Transactions individually. See https://newrelic.com/docs/transactions-dashboards/key-transactions.

At this time, however, custom metrics cannot be made into Key Transactions. You can view them on custom dashboards, but to be alerted about them you will need to write a plugin. You can get started by reading this article: https://newrelic.com/docs/plugin-dev/working-directly-with-the-plugin-api

You could also write to New Relic support to make a feature request, asking for alerting on custom metrics.