What is Newrelic?

Newrelic is cloud-based software to help websites and applications to track or monitor the performance of their services. New Relic is a San Francisco, California-based technology company that develops cloud-based software to help website and application owners track the performances of their services.

25-July-2020

Example –
If you have a website and it is working fine with low traffic and one day you notice traffic is increasing very drastically which is affecting the performance of your website. Then Newrelic finds out issues by tracking and monitoring issues and helps developers to detect issues in very less amount of time which increases website performance for better users interaction with your app or website. Newrelic provide very vast range of services -> Newrelic-infrastructure, Alerts, Logs, APM, Mobile etc.
It works in real-time and trending data about your web application’s performance and the level of satisfaction that your end-users experience. With end to end transaction tracing and a variety of color-coded charts and reports, APM visualizes your data, down to the deepest code levels.
It also helps to understand the user’s behavior, business transactions, customer insights etc. Insights help people to visualize trends, create real-time dashboards and customizable charts for your metrics.

What Newrelic offers?

How to Install the Newrelic in centos 7?

To install the agent:

Download the packaged agent file
https://download.newrelic.com/infrastructure_agent/binaries/linux/

wget https://download.newrelic.com/infrastructure_agent/binaries/linux/amd64/nri-vsphere_linux_1.0.0_amd64.tar.gz

Unpack the file.

tar -zxvf nri-vsphere_linux_1.0.0_amd64.tar.gz

Once it’s unpacked, access and edit the installation script installer.sh and the configuration file config_defaults.sh.

Update your license key in config_defaults.sh.

Optional: Update any other environmental parameters in the configuration file.

Execute installer.sh with admin rights.

./installer.sh

How to configure the Newrelic in centos 7 ?

A common thing we see on Centos 7 servers, in particular, is that the agent and daemon are unable to communicate with each other. Can you try changing the way they communicate by changing the newrelic.daemon.port setting to @newrelic-daemon in your newrelic.ini configuration file and restart the webserver to apply the changes?




Give the name as well

newrelic.appname = "techouse.co.in"


Warning: app 'techouse.co.in' connect attempt returned NewRelic::Agent::ForceDisconnectException: Account Security Violation: The account is not configured for language agent security policies.

Default value
;newrelic.high_security = false

Set this value for high security
newrelic.high_security = true

How to activate the infrastructure in newrelic ?

Ubuntu 16
printf "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.newrelic.com/infrastructure_agent/linux/apt xenial main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/newrelic-infra.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install newrelic-infra -y

How to activate the infrastructure in Newrelic Centos 7?

sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/newrelic-infra.repo https://download.newrelic.com/infrastructure_agent/linux/yum/el/7/x86_64/newrelic-infra.repo


sudo yum -q makecache -y --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo='newrelic-infra'

sudo yum install newrelic-infra -y

sudo systemctl start newrelic-infra
sudo systemclt enable newrelic-infra

Important Link

How to remove the newrelic agent?

https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/new-relic-apm/maintenance/remove-applications-new-relic-ui
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agents/php-agent/getting-started/new-relic-daemon-processes

https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/new-relic-infrastructure/installation/uninstall-infrastructure-agent