New Relic, despite being billed as the world’s most widely deployed cross-platform observability platform, was only brought to our attention through a recent product launch with TV app developer Accedo. An immediate red flag is raised when walking through the front door of the San Francisco-based company’s website, brandishing an outlandish 15,000+ customers, which tells us either that New Relic is extremely cheap, or extremely good. It transpires the answer is a bit of both. Chris McCarthy, GM of Media and Entertainment at New Relic, confirms to Faultline that New Relic does indeed have a free tier, serving as an on-ramp to the vendor’s war chest of paid analytics tools. McCarthy is not privy to how many of these 15,000…