Taming the change chaos: Why change tracking matters in software

New Relic Change Tracking is a solution that helps developers and operations teams identify the root cause of issues after updates by providing a clear picture of how modifications impact software systems, including "who, what, when, and why" behind changes. This solution integrates with existing development workflows and offers features such as correlating changes to performance impact, simplifying troubleshooting, and boosting collaboration. It also empowers users to proactively reduce the risk of negative impacts from changes by introducing controlled deployment strategies, such as canary deployments, blue-green deployments, feature flag deployments, and rolling updates. Additionally, New Relic Change Tracking offers advanced capabilities like capturing environment variables and build versions, providing a richer context for change history, and transforming change tracking into a strategic tool for informed decision-making.