Case Study
Full Network Observability in Docker
Network observability is one of the hardest gaps to fill in a monitoring stack because the learning curve starts before you even touch the tool. This project removes that barrier. Clone the repo, spin up the containers, and within a few minutes you have realistic SNMP and syslog traffic flowing into New Relic, ready to explore.
Snapshot
The Problem
Most tutorials for New Relic Network Performance Monitoring assume you have physical network devices sitting around. Routers, switches, something that speaks SNMP. Most engineers don't. So they skip NPM entirely, or never get hands-on experience before they need it in production.
What I Built
A fully containerized NPM demo environment using Docker. Two custom simulator images that generate real SNMP traps and syslog traffic without any physical hardware. Everything needed to explore New Relic NPM end-to-end, on a laptop, without touching a single physical device.