New Relic Grouper plugin

Description: Allows server metrics to be collected from any servers within in an account and group that data under a plugin dashboard. Can be modified in theory to group any metrics being reported to New Relic that are available through the REST API (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/features/getting-started-with-the-new-relic-rest-api)

In addition to the Grouper functionality, this version also sends the server metrics to NewRelic Insights as an Event, so that server metrics can be used in Insight's Dashboards as well.

How to use it:

The application installs itself as a daemon, and to install and start the application, run:

python setup.py install

Debugging

If you're testing the application from the Python shell, it's easy to run by executing the following from the Python shell:

from newrelic_grouper.newrelic import NRGrouper
g = NRGrouper('./nrgrouper.conf')
g.run()

Installation

• RPM

  • Dowload the source and execute:

  python setup.py sdist_rpm
  cd dist/
  rpm -ivh <RPM You Just Made>.rpm / yum install <RPM You Just Made>.rpm
  

  *Obviously you only have to use rpm OR yum (not both), and you only have to make the RPM for each architecture you're using.

• Source Distribution

  • Download the source and execute:

  python setup.py sdist
  cd dist/
  tar zxf <The Tarball>
  cd <The Directory you just unzipped>
  python setup.py install
  

  • Obviously you can move that tarball around after creating it once.