New Relic

On a Grid plan

1. Get your license key

2. Add your license key

Add your New Relic license key as a project level variable:

platform variable:create --visible-build false php:newrelic.license --value '<your-new-relic-license-key>'

PHP

3. Enable the New Relic extension

Enable the New Relic extension in your .platform.app.yaml as follows:

runtime:
    extensions:
        - newrelic

Push the changes to your Platform.sh environment to enable New Relic as follows:

git add .platform.app.yaml
git commit -m "Enable New Relic."
git push

That’s it! You need to wait a little bit for your New Relic dashboard to be generated.

Java

To set up New Relic in the Java project, we have two ways:

Using the Maven project
Download the code through .platform.app.yaml.

Maven

This section explains how to configure Maven to download and unzip the newrelic-java.zip file, which contains all New Relic Java agent components.

To set up the application with New Relic, you have two options:

Configuring and downloading from Maven
Downloading on your own

Configure your pom.xml to download newrelic-java.zip. For example:

<dependency>
     <groupId>com.newrelic.agent.java</groupId>
     <artifactId>newrelic-java</artifactId>
      <version>JAVA_AGENT_VERSION</version>
     <scope>provided</scope>
     <type>zip</type>
</dependency>

Replace JAVA_AGENT_VERSION with the latest Java agent version 1.

Unzip newrelic-java.zip by configuring maven-dependency-plugin in your pom.xml. For example:

   <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.1</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>unpack-newrelic</id>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <includeGroupIds>com.newrelic.agent.java</includeGroupIds>
              <includeArtifactIds>newrelic-java</includeArtifactIds>
              <excludes>**/newrelic.yml</excludes>
              <overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
              <overWriteSnapshots>false</overWriteSnapshots>
              <overWriteIfNewer>true</overWriteIfNewer>
              <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}</outputDirectory>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>

The next step is to configure the .platform.app.yaml file to:

Set the agent in the JVM parameters
Overwrite the application file with the proper license key and application name. You can also do it using the API or the management console. Therefore this configuration will work outside the code very useful when the application is on a public repository.

name: app
type: 'java:8'
disk: 1024
hooks:
    build: |
        mvn clean package
        rm -rf newrelic/
        mv target/newrelic/ newrelic/        

mounts:
    'server/':
        source: local
        source_path: server_source

variables:
    env:
        NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY: <LICENSE_KEY>
        NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME: <NAME_APPLICATION>

web:
    commands:
        start: |
                          java -jar \
            -Xmx$(jq .info.limits.memory /run/config.json)m -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError \
            -javaagent:/app/newrelic/newrelic.jar //the other parameters here

Manual Configuration

To use this installation it is only required that you modify .platform.app.yaml , which will download and set the New Relic Java agent for you.

name: app
type: 'java:8'
disk: 1024


variables:
    env:
        NEW_RELIC_URL: https://download.newrelic.com/newrelic/java-agent/newrelic-agent/current/newrelic-java.zip
        NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY: <LICENSE_KEY>
        NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME: <NAME_APPLICATION>

hooks:
    build: |
      mvn clean package
      rm -rf newrelic
      curl -O $NEW_RELIC_URL
      unzip newrelic-java.zip      


web:
    commands:
        start: |
            java -jar \
            -Xmx$(jq .info.limits.memory /run/config.json)m \
            -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError \
            -javaagent:/app/newrelic/newrelic.jar //the left of the commands here

On a Dedicated cluster

Sign up at https://newrelic.com and get your license key. Then open a support ticket and let us know what your key is. Our support team will install it and let you know when it is complete.

Troubleshoot

Additionally, you can check that your application is properly connected to New Relic by looking at the /var/log/app.log file:

platform log app

2017/04/19 14:00:16.706450 (93) Info: Reporting to: https://rpm.newrelic.com/accounts/xxx/applications/xxx
2017/04/19 14:00:16.706668 (93) Info: app 'xxx-master-xxx.app' connected with run id 'xxx'