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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

# Send metrics to New Relic metrics endpoint
[[outputs.newrelic]]
  ## The 'insights_key' parameter requires a NR license key.
  ## New Relic recommends you create one
  ## with a convenient name such as TELEGRAF_INSERT_KEY.
  ## reference: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/intro-apis/new-relic-api-keys/#ingest-license-key
  # insights_key = "New Relic License Key Here"

  ## Prefix to add to add to metric name for easy identification.
  ## This is very useful if your metric names are ambiguous.
  # metric_prefix = ""

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

  ## HTTP Proxy override. If unset use values from the standard
  ## proxy environment variables to determine proxy, if any.
  # http_proxy = "http://corporate.proxy:3128"

  ## Metric URL override to enable geographic location endpoints.
  # If not set use values from the standard
  # metric_url = "https://metric-api.newrelic.com/metric/v1"

Documentation

Index

• type NewRelic
  • func (nr *NewRelic) Close() error
  • func (nr *NewRelic) Connect() error
  • func (*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      config.Duration `toml:"timeout"`
	HTTPProxy    string          `toml:"http_proxy"`
	MetricURL    string          `toml:"metric_url"`
	// 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) SampleConfig

func (*NewRelic) SampleConfig() string

func (*NewRelic) Write

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

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