New Relic Live Archives

Businesses need to retain their software system logs for long

periods to comply with regulations and standards such as the

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA),

US Executive Order 14028, Basel II Accord, Center for Internet

Security (CIS) Critical Security Controls, Payment Card

Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Sarbanes–Oxley

Act (SOX), and System and Organization Controls 2 (SOC 2).

Today, IT and engineering teams must make painful tradeoffs

between ease of use and saving money. Hot log storage

solutions are easy to use but prohibitively expensive for long-

term storage. Cold log storage solutions cost less but are

excessively toilsome to maintain and query, and they often

lead to surprise bills.

Overview

New Relic live archives combines affordability, ease of use,

and performance. It helps businesses comply with regulatory

requirements by storing logs in an active, hydrated, and

enriched state for up to seven years. So engineers can

analyze logs more quickly and effectively without the hassles

of rehydration, reloading, re-indexing, and moving data to

multiple locations or tiers. Additionally, it’s cost-effective,

priced at just a quarter of other long-term storage solutions.

Key benefits of live archives

Live archives eliminates the complexities of managing

multiple storage locations and navigating arduous data

retrieval processes. It’s revolutionized how you manage

compliance risks and analyze historical logs.

• Access historical logs instantly. Because your logs never

leave New Relic, you get seamless, hassle-free query

access to your data without delay. Your historical logs are

managed and accessed as quickly as any other logs using

the same user interface that you use for other queries—no

extra steps are required.

• Eliminate toil. There’s no need for the manual and

time-consuming steps of traditional solutions, such as

rehydrating, reloading, re-indexing logs, or moving data to

multiple locations or tiers for analysis. And there’s no need

to bring your own storage solutions (such as S3 buckets)

or pull historical logs separately.

• Reduce costs. Say goodbye to the additional costs

associated with traditional long-term log storage

solutions, such as the need to pay for ingress and egress,

indexing, reformatting log data, or licenses for additional

log tools.

Pay for what you use

With live archives, you pay for:

• Ingest: Based on either our original data option (US$0.30/

GB with at least eight days of default data retention) or

Data Plus (US$0.50/GB with 90 days extra data retention

over the default).

• Additional data retention: Billed at US$0.005/GB per

month (promotional price) beyond default data retention.

• Queries: Measured in compute capacity units (CCUs),

which calculate the amount of compute resources used to

complete your query.

New Relic

Live Archives

Long-term log storage for easy

regulatory compliance at an

unbeatable price

DATA SHEET

“As Bed Bath & Beyond moves forward as a company, we’ve

also taken the opportunity to consolidate our observability

tooling. We’re excited to leverage New Relic live archives,

allowing our engineers to tap into insights and learn from

our historical logs data while also meeting compliance

requirements for retaining data. All of which enables us to

deliver the superior digital experience our customers expect

at every touchpoint.”

Eddie Hughes

VP of Software Engineering at

Bed Bath & Beyond, formerly Overstock

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