What you'll learn

New Relic becomes much more useful once you understand how its data foundation works. In this course, New Relic Data Foundation Principles, you’ll learn how the platform organizes telemetry data and why that unified model matters for both technical troubleshooting and business visibility. First, you’ll explore how New Relic stores and works with telemetry data through NRDB, and how metrics, events, logs, and traces come together into a single observability model. Next, you’ll see why unified telemetry improves correlation, speeds up investigation, and helps teams reduce resolution time while supporting better customer experiences. Finally, you’ll navigate the core platform areas and identify where to explore APM, Infrastructure, Browser, dashboards, and NRQL in a real New Relic account. By the end of this course, you’ll have a clear mental model of how New Relic data is structured and how to move around the platform with confidence before progressing to deeper hands-on monitoring workflows.