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#New Relic output plugin

This plugins writes to New Relic Insights using the Metrics API.

To use this plugin you must first obtain an Insights API Key.

Telegraf minimum version: Telegraf 1.15.0

Configuration

[[outputs.newrelic]]
  ## New Relic Insights API key
  insights_key = "insights api key"

  ## Prefix to add to add to metric name for easy identification.
  # metric_prefix = ""

  ## Timeout for writes to the New Relic API.
  # timeout = "15s"

Documentation

Index

• type NewRelic
  • func (nr *NewRelic) Close() error
  • func (nr *NewRelic) Connect() error
  • func (nr *NewRelic) Description() string
  • func (nr *NewRelic) SampleConfig() string
  • func (nr *NewRelic) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error

Types

type NewRelic

type NewRelic struct {
	InsightsKey  string            `toml:"insights_key"`
	MetricPrefix string            `toml:"metric_prefix"`
	Timeout      internal.Duration `toml:"timeout"`

	Client http.Client `toml:"-"`
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

NewRelic nr structure

func (*NewRelic) Close

func (nr *NewRelic) Close() error

Close any connections to the Output

func (*NewRelic) Connect

func (nr *NewRelic) Connect() error

Connect to the Output

func (*NewRelic) Description

func (nr *NewRelic) Description() string

Description returns a one-sentence description on the Output

func (*NewRelic) SampleConfig

func (nr *NewRelic) SampleConfig() string

SampleConfig : return default configuration of the Output

func (*NewRelic) Write

func (nr *NewRelic) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error

Write takes in group of points to be written to the Output