# Best Practices for Optimizing Your Enterprise Cloud Applications with New Relic

DevFeed: [Best Practices for Optimizing Your Enterprise Cloud Applications with New Relic](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/best-practices-for-optimizing-your-enterprise-cloud-applications-with-new-relic-26377.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.heroku.com/blog/best-practices-optimizing-enterprise-cloud-applications-new-relic/>)

Author: Julián Duque

Published: 2024-10-09T00:13:37Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/heroku.md>)

Topics: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [add-ons](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/add-ons.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [dynos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dynos.md>), [ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ecosystem.md>), [heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/heroku.md>), [memory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [performance-optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance-optimization.md>), [product-features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-features.md>), [root-cause-analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/root-cause-analysis.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how Heroku's built-in observability features help monitor enterprise cloud applications. It covers application metrics, alerts, runtime metrics, response time, throughput, memory usage, and dyno load, and discusses using the New Relic add-on for more granular data and complex use cases.

## Source excerpt

If your cloud application performs poorly or is unreliable, users will walk away, and your enterprise will suffer. To know what's going on inside of your million-concurrent-user application (Don't worry, you'll get there!), you need observability. Observability gives you the insights you need to understand how your application behaves. As your application and architecture scale [...] The post Best Practices for Optimizing Your Enterprise Cloud Applications with New Relic appeared first on Heroku.