New Relic Monitoring

This repository contains a set of Ansible playbooks and Terraform files to install New Relic One agents and configure alerts.

New Relic One is a SaaS based monitoring solution that offers one full-access admin user for free.

This repository consists of:

• ansible - Ansible configuration
• terraform - Terraform configuration

Ansible is used to install and configure New Relic's infrastructure agents.

Terraform is used to configure New Relic's alert policies and conditions.

Pre-requisites

Install Ansible

sudo apt install -y python3 python3-pip
python3 -m pip install --user ansible==4.10

Install Terraform

sudo apt install -y curl
curl -fsSL https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main"
sudo apt install -y terraform=1.3.4
sudo apt-mark hold terraform

Configure AWS S3 and DynamoDB for Remote State Files

See configuration instructions here:

https://www.lisenet.com/2020/terraform-with-aws-s3-and-dynamodb-for-remote-state-files/

See required IAM account permissions docs/terraform-aws-iam-permissions.json.

Usage

To deploy infrastructure agents, see ansible/README.md.

To deploy Terraform config, see terraform/README.md.