This workshop will provide an inside look into the techniques you can use to monitor and obtain real time metrics and event data from production software, and how to deal with the large volumes of data which can result. We'll provide an outline on how the New Relic Python Agent works, and discuss how it reaches in and instruments your application code automatically, without needing to make code changes yourself. Interested in collecting even more data? We'll teach you how to add custom instrumentation for either your own application, or for any other third party packages you may use.