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Description

This cookbook provides an easy way to install various New Relic agents and the New Relic server monitor.

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Requirements

Chef version:

Make sure you run Chef >= 0.10.0.

Cookbooks:

This cookbook recommends on the following cookbooks:

  • php
  • python
  • ms_dotnet4
  • curl
  • nodejs

Depending on your environment, these recommended cookbooks are actual dependencies (depends):

  • Installing the PHP agent? You'll need the php cookbook to be available.

  • Installing the Python agent? You'll need the python cookbook to be available.

  • Installing the DotNet agent? You'll need the ms_dotnet4 cookbook to be available.

  • Installing the nodejs agent? You'll need the nodejs cookbook to be available.

  • Want to make use of deployments? You'll need the curl cookbook to be available.

Platforms:

  • Debian
  • Ubuntu
  • RHEL
  • CentOS
  • Fedora
  • Scientific
  • Amazon
  • Windows
  • SmartOS

Attributes

default.rb:

BASIC

  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['license'] - Your New Relic license key for server monitoring purposes (usually same license key as application monitoring license)
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['license'] - Your New Relic license key for application monitoring purposes (usually same license key as server monitoring license)

ADVANCED

  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['logfile']
  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['loglevel']
  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['proxy']
  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['ssl']
  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['ssl_ca_bundle']
  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['ssl_ca_path']
  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['hostname']
  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['pidfile']
  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['collector_host']
  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['timeout']
  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['windows_version'] - the Windows version to install
  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['windows64_checksum'] - checksum of the 64-bit Windows version
  • node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['windows32_checksum'] - checksum of the 32-bit Windows version
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['enabled']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['logfile']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['loglevel']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['appname']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['daemon']['logfile']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['daemon']['loglevel']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['daemon']['port']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['daemon']['max_threads']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['daemon']['ssl']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['daemon']['ssl_ca_path']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['daemon']['ssl_ca_bundle']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['daemon']['proxy']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['daemon']['pidfile']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['daemon']['location']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['daemon']['collector_host']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['daemon']['dont_launch']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['capture_params']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['ignored_params']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['error_collector']['enable']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['error_collector']['record_database_errors']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['error_collector']['prioritize_api_errors']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['browser_monitoring']['auto_instrument']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['transaction_tracer']['enable']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['transaction_tracer']['threshold']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['transaction_tracer']['detail']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['transaction_tracer']['slow_sql']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['transaction_tracer']['stack_trace_threshold']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['transaction_tracer']['explain_threshold']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['transaction_tracer']['record_sql']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['transaction_tracer']['custom']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['framework']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['webtransaction']['name']['remove_trailing_path']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['webtransaction']['name']['functions']
  • node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['webtransaction']['name']['files']

repository.rb:

  • node['newrelic']['repository_key'] - The New Relic repository key, defaults to "548C16BF"

php-agent.rb:

  • node['newrelic']['startup_mode'] - The newrelic-daemon startup mode ("agent"/"external"), defaults to "agent"
  • node['newrelic']['web_server']['service_name'] - The web server service name, defaults to "apache2"
  • node['newrelic']['php_recipe'] - The php recipe to include for the php agent, defaults to "php::default"

python-agent.rb:

  • node['newrelic']['python_version'] - Defaults to "latest". Version numbers can be found at http://download.newrelic.com/python_agent/release/
  • node['newrelic']['python_recipe'] - The python recipe to include for the python agent, defaults to "python::pip"

dotnet-agent.rb:

  • node['newrelic']['https_download'] - The URL to download the MSI installer from New Relic. Default is to pull "latest"
  • node['newrelic']['install_level'] - The install version of the .NET Agent. Default is '1' but can use '50' for a complete installation
  • node['newrelic']['dotnet_recipe'] - The dotnet recipe to include for the php agent, defaults to "ms_dotnet4"

server-monitor.rb:

  • node['newrelic']['service_name'] - The New Relic server monitoring service name, defaults to "newrelic-sysmond"
  • node['newrelic']['config_path'] - The New Relic server monitoring config path, defaults to "/etc/newrelic"
  • node['newrelic']['config_file_group'] - The New Relic server monitoring config file group, defaults to "newrelic"

java-agent.rb:

  • node['newrelic']['https_download'] - The url to download the jar vor the NewRelic java agent
  • node['newrelic']['jar_file'] - The name of the newrelic jar file
  • node['newrelic']['install_dir'] - The directory to install the newrelic jar and config file
  • node['newrelic']['app_user'] - The user that runs the java application that will use the New Relic java agent
  • node['newrelic']['app_group'] - The group for the app_user
  • node['newrelic']['audit_mode'] - Boolean, Log all data to and from New Relic in plain text
  • node['newrelic']['log_file_count'] - The number of log files to use
  • node['newrelic']['log_limit_in_kbytes'] - The maximum number of bytes to write to any one log file
  • node['newrelic']['log_daily'] - Override other log rolling configuration and roll the logs daily

nodejs-agent.rb

  • node['newrelic']['nodejs']['apps'] - Array of Hash describing the apps to monitor

eg.

[ 
   { 'app_name' => 'My Application', 'app_path' => "/path/to/app/root" }
]

You then need to modify your application "main" file to add the following on the first line:

javascript
require('newrelic');

Resources / Providers

This cookbook includes an LWRP for notifying New Relic of a deployment

newrelic_deployment

Actions

  • :notify: Notify New Relic of a deployment

Attribute parameters

  • api_key: Your New Relic API key
  • app_name: The name of the application, found in the newrelic.yml file
  • app_id: The ID # of the application
  • description: Text annotation for the deployment (notes for you)
  • revision: The revision number from your source control system (SVN, git, etc.)
  • changelog: A list of changes for this deployment
  • user: The name of the user/process that triggered this deployment

Examples

newrelic_deployment "my-application" do
    api_key "abcdef"
    #app_name "my-application"
    app_id 1234567
    description "some description"
    revision "some revision"
    changelog "some changelog"
    user "chef-client"
    action :notify
end

Usage

include recipe[newrelic] in a run list to implicly run recipe[newrelic:repository] and recipe[newrelic::server-monitor]

  • OR - include the bits and pieces explicitly in a run list: recipe[newrelic::repository] recipe[newrelic::server-monitor] recipe[newrelic::php-agent] recipe[newrelic::python-agent] recipe[newrelic::dotnet] recipe[newrelic::nodejs]
  1. change the node['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['license'] and node['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['license'] attributes to your New Relic license keys --- OR --- override the attributes on a higher level (http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Attributes#Attributes-AttributesPrecedence)

References

License and Authors

Author: David Joos david@escapestudios.com Author: Escape Studios Development dev@escapestudios.com Copyright: 2012-2014, Escape Studios

Unless otherwise noted, all files are released under the MIT license, possible exceptions will contain licensing information in them.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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