newrelic-api-test-js

JavaScript library to test connectivity to New Relic API

How to use

This is just a simple library to test connectivity between NodeJS and New Relic API.

Initial Setup

Clone the repository and run npm install which should install dependencies into node_modules

kahrens@kenbook8u:~/dev/node$ git clone https://github.com/kenahrens/newrelic-api-test-js.git
...
kahrens@kenbook8u:~/dev/node$ cd newrelic-api-test
kahrens@kenbook8u:~/dev/node/newrelic-api-test$ npm install

Setup Your API Keys

This library uses the npm config package to setup your API Keys. There is a basic default.json that shows the 5 keys you can populate, with an account nicknamed newrelic:

• accountId - you will also see this in the URL bar
• restKey - overall REST API Key (legacy)
• adminKey - specific Admin user API Key, used for certain API calls
• insightsQueryKey - there are keys just for Insights in the Manage Data section

If you configure Environment Variables those will over-ride the values in default.json.

However you can also make your own JSON config file with multiple accounts in there.

Environment Variables

Set 4 environment variables to the correct values for your account, this works if you're using a single account.

• NEWRELIC_ACCOUNT_ID maps to accountId
• NEWRELIC_REST_API_KEY maps to restKey
• NEWRELIC_ADMIN_API_KEY maps to adminKey
• NEWRELIC_INSIGHTS_QUERY_KEY maps to insightsQueryKey

Multiple Accounts

Here is an example of how to setup a custom JSON file with multiple sets of keys. At runtime you would set NODE_ENV to the name of this config.

{
  "MasterAccount": {
    "accountId": "",
    "restKey": "",
    "adminKey": "",
    "insightsQueryKey": ""
  },
  "SubAccount1": {
    "accountId": "",
    "restKey": "",
    "adminKey": "",
    "insightsQueryKey": ""
  },
  "SubAccount2": {
    "accountId": "",
    "restKey": "",
    "adminKey": "",
    "insightsQueryKey": ""
  }
}

Then in your code you could make the same API call against multiple accounts (of course you could use a variable or whatever):

insights.query(nrql, 'MasterAccount', cb);
insights.query(nrql, 'SubAccount1', cb);
insights.query(nrql, 'SubAccount2', cb);

Partner Account

Gather the PartnerId from your partnership admin console, and the Partner Rest key from the Partnership account.

{
  "configArr": [
    "PartnerName1", "PartnerName2"
  ],
  "PartnerName1": {
    "partnerId": "<PARTNER1_ID>",
    "restKey": "<PARNER1_RESTKEY>"
  },
  "PartnerName2": {
    "partnerId": "<PARTNER2_ID>",
    "restKey": "<PARNER2_RESTKEY>"
  }
}

Execute Tests

You can also run the test cases which is a way to double check things are configured properly.

kahrens:newrelic-api-client-js kahrens$ npm test

> newrelic-api-test@0.0.1 test /Users/kahrens/Documents/github/newrelic-api-client-js
> ./node_modules/mocha/bin/mocha



  New Relic API Test
    ✓ calls the applications api (293ms)
    ✓ gets a specific application (183ms)
    ✓ gets the metricNames for a specific application (282ms)
    ✓ gets the metricData for a specific application (225ms)
    ✓ gets the hosts for a specific application (212ms)
    ✓ gets the instances for a specific application (210ms)
    ✓ calls the mobile api (212ms)
    ✓ calls the browser api (412ms)
    ✓ calls the keyTransactions api (178ms)
    ✓ calls the servers api (188ms)
    ✓ calls the usages api for apm (193ms)
    ✓ calls the users api (167ms)
    ✓ calls the plugins api (227ms)
    ✓ gets the component for a specific plugin (292ms)

  New Relic Insights API Test
    ✓ calls the query api (272ms)

  New Relic Synthetics API Test
    ✓ calls the synthetics api (673ms)


  16 passing (4s)