Monitoring pluging Haproxy python

This plugin allows you to monitor your HAproxy loadbalancer. You can see the state of your frontend (servers loadbalanced) and backend (HAproxy itself)

Requirements

• New relic account, find our plugin in the plugin central
• Python 2.7 with the python lib requests installed ( pip install requests // find the library directly into the OS's official repository // build it from the sources : http://www.python-requests.org/)
  • Reports of it working on Python 2.6.6, however your mileage may vary and this is not supported.

Installation

1. Create the newrelic conf directory if it is not created yet

   mkdir /etc/newrelic

2. Copy the config file into this directory

   cp agent-a0labs.cfg /etc/newrelic/

3. If you didn't install pip on your system yet, install it first.

   # In Ubuntu
   apt-get install python-pip

4. The python requests library is required:

   pip install requests
   

Configuration

Fill the informations in the cfg file:

• License Key
• URL to access the stat CSV Haproxy's file
• user and password Optional:
• hostname if you want to customize your hostname in newrelic GUI.
• enable/disable logs and specify the directory

RUN

newrelic-haproxy-agent -c haproxy-agent.cfg

Daemonize

There are a few ways to be sure the plugin remains running as a Daemon or service, some are better than others - but each should be selected based on your need.

• supervisord
• use a nohup to launch it in background an detach it when you'll quit the terminal