new_relic cookbook

This cookbook installs and configures both the New Relic server monitor agent and optionally, the plugin agents.

Requirements

• Ubuntu 12.04

Suggestions

• Java (for the MySQL plugin agent)

Usage

To simply monitor the server, add the new_relic::default cookbook to your run_list.

To setup the MySQL plugin agent, additionally add the new_relic::mysql_monitor recipe to the run_list and you can optionally setup an encrypted data bag with the following structure:

{
  "id": "new_relic",
  "license_key": "ff7ac3bd91dc..."
}

The values expected in the data bag:

• license_key - Your NewRelic api key found in your "Account settings" area.

Setting up the encrypted data bag for testing

• Setup the data bags folder:

mkdir -p test/integration/default/data_bags/martinisoftware

Setting up the data bag secret

openssl rand -base64 512 > test/integration/data_bags/encrypted_data_bag_secret

• Create the encrypted data bag file with the secret

knife solo data bag edit martinisoftware new_relic --secret-file test/integration/data_bags/encrypted_data_bag_secret --data-bag-path test/integration/data_bags/martinisoftware

Attributes

• default["new_relic"]["enabled"] - Is the server agent enabled?
• default["new_relic"]["data_bag_name"] - The data bag that contains the "new_relic_env" item, default is "new_relic"
• default["new_relic"]["license_key"] - Your NewRelic license key
• default["new_relic"]["loglevel"] - Log level, default is "info"
• default["new_relic"]["logfile"] - Log location, default is "/var/log/newrelic/nrsysmond.log"

Recipes

• default - Sets up and installs the NewRelic Server Monitor Agent
• mysql_monitor - Installs the MySQL monitor agent for NewRelic

Author & License

Author:: Aaron Kalin (akalin@martinisoftware.com)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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