newrelic-cli

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newrelic-cli

The New Relic CLI is an officially supported command line interface for New Relic, released as part of the Developer Toolkit

Overview

THIS IS AN ALPHA / PRE-RELEASE: Subject to drastic changes

The New Relic CLI is a project to consolidate some of the tools that New Relic offers for managing resources. Current scope is limited while the framework is being developed, but the tool as-is does perform a subset of tasks.

• Entity Search: Search for entities across all your New Relic accounts
• Entity Tagging: Manage tags across all of your entities
• Deployment Markers: Easily record an APM Application deployment within New Relic.

Getting Started

For a quick guide on getting started with the New Relic CLI, see our Getting Started page.

Other Resources

There are a handful of other useful tools that this does not replace. Here are some useful links to other tools that you might be interested in using at this time.

• NR1 CLI: Command line interface for managing development workflows for custom Nerdpacks on New Relic One.
• New Relic Lambda CLI: A CLI to install the New Relic AWS Lambda integration and layers.
• New Relic Diagnostics: A utility that automatically detects common problems with New Relic agents.

Usage

Installation

Today pre-release binaries have been created on the GitHub releases page. You can dowload the latest release here

Docker

There is a docker image that can be utilized for running commands as well.

Note: You must pass in NEW_RELIC_API_KEY, which is your Personal API Key

APM Application Example

# Pull the latest container
$ docker pull newrelic/cli

# Run the container interactively, remove it once the command exists
# Also must pass $NEW_RELIC_API_KEY to the container
$ docker run -it --rm \
    -e NEW_RELIC_API_KEY \
    newrelic/cli \
    apm application get --name WebPortal --accountId 2508259

[
  {
    "AccountID": 2508259,
    "ApplicationID": 204261368,
    "Domain": "APM",
    "EntityType": "APM_APPLICATION_ENTITY",
    "GUID": "MjUwODI1OXxBUE18QVBQTElDQVRJT058MjA0MjYxMzY4",
    "Name": "WebPortal",
    "Permalink": "https://one.newrelic.com/redirect/entity/MjUwODI1OXxBUE18QVBQTElDQVRJT058MjA0MjYxMzY4",
    "Reporting": true,
    "Type": "APPLICATION"
  }
]

Getting Help

In order to get help about what commands are available, the trusty --help flag is here to assist. Alternatively, using just the help subcommand also works.

newrelic --help
newrelic help

Help is also available for the nested sub-commands. For example, the with the following command, you can retrieve help for the apm sub-command.

newrelic apm --help
newrelic help apm

Using the CLI in this way, users are able to inspect what commands are available, with some instruction on their usage.

Patterns

Throughout the help, you may notice common patterns. The term describe is used to perform list or get operations, while the create and delete terms are used to construct or destroy an item, respectively.

Development

Requirements

• Go 1.13.0+
• GNU Make
• git

Building

This package does not generate any direct usable assets (it's a library). You can still run the build scripts to validate you code, and generate coverage information.

# Default target is 'build'
$ make

# Explicitly run build
$ make build

# Locally test the CI build scripts
# make build-ci

Testing

Before contributing, all linting and tests must pass. Tests can be run directly via:

# Tests and Linting
$ make test

# Only unit tests
$ make test-unit

# Only integration tests
$ make test-integration

Commit Messages

Using the following format for commit messages allows for auto-generation of the CHANGELOG:

Format:

<type>(<scope>): <subject>

Type	Description	Change log?
chore	Maintenance type work	No
docs	Documentation Updates	Yes
feat	New Features	Yes
fix	Bug Fixes	Yes
refactor	Code Refactoring	No

Scope

This refers to what part of the code is the focus of the work. For example:

General:

• build - Work related to the build system (linting, makefiles, CI/CD, etc)
• release - Work related to cutting a new release

Package Specific:

• newrelic - Work related to the New Relic package
• http - Work related to the internal/http package
• alerts - Work related to the pkg/alerts package

Documentation

Note: This requires the repo to be in your GOPATH (godoc issue)

$ make docs

Community

New Relic hosts and moderates an online forum where customers can interact with New Relic employees as well as other customers to get help and share best practices.

• Roadmap - As part of the Developer Toolkit, the roadmap for this project follows the same RFC process
• Issues or Enhancement Requests - Issues and enhancement requests can be submitted in the Issues tab of this repository. Please search for and review the existing open issues before submitting a new issue.
• Contributors Guide - Contributions are welcome (and if you submit a Enhancement Request, expect to be invited to contribute it yourself 😁).
• Community discussion board - Like all official New Relic open source projects, there's a related Community topic in the New Relic Explorers Hub.

Keep in mind that when you submit your pull request, you'll need to sign the CLA via the click-through using CLA-Assistant. If you'd like to execute our corporate CLA, or if you have any questions, please drop us an email at opensource@newrelic.com.

Support

New Relic has open-sourced this project. This project is provided AS-IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OR SUPPORT, although you can report issues and contribute to the project here on GitHub.

Please do not report issues with this software to New Relic Global Technical Support.

Open Source License

This project is distributed under the Apache 2 license.