The use case: how Watch Duty deploys New Relic
Watch Duty, a wildfire information nonprofit, uses New Relic to monitor whether its platform is meeting demand. It relies on alerts, logs, transactions and distributed tracing, and uses the data to verify the effect of caching changes and push notification performance.
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Watch Duty peaked at up to 9 million users in the week.
an immediate scaling of 10X over last year according to Dave
increasing their caching, now up to 40% of their traffic
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In the February 2025 California fires, Watch Duty needed to support 1.5 million concurrent users, an immediate scaling of 10X over last year according to Dave.