NewrelicInsights

Why? We are used to NewRelic custom dashboards to monitor our integrations system, but elixir does not have an official package, and the ones that are out there cant do what we need. I hope we can give this awesome community something back! We still learning elixir so be kind :)

What this isn’t

It’s not a NewRelic monitoring tool

What is this?

A way to publish custom events data to New Relic Insights data explorer. With this we can create great graphic’s to help with the monitoring of our integrations.

Installation

The package can be installed by adding newrelic_insights to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:newrelic_insights, "~> 1.0.5"}
  ]
end

Configuration

Leave it at your config.ex while developing. In deployed apps place it at prod.ex

config :newrelic_insights,
  api_key: "NEWRELIC_API_KEY",
  account_id: "NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID"

Usage

NewrelicInsights.send_event(data)

Sample Data

data = [ %{ "eventType": "Workers/MyWorker", "account": 3, "amount": 259.54 }, %{ "eventType": "Sample", "account": 5, "amount": 12309, "product": "Item" }]

IMPORTANT

Every map inside the list MUST HAVE the key: eventType
The value of eventType can’t be blank.
Use something useful to identify your event on the eventType, like your module/class.

The docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/newrelic_insights.

Newrelic references

Data Reference and Sample
To generate an API KEY https://insights.newrelic.com/accounts/YOUR_ACCOUNT_HERE/manage/api_keys
To see the event data you’re sending https://insights.newrelic.com/accounts/YOUR_ACCOUNT_HERE/explorer/events click on the PAGE VIEW drop down and select the EVENT TYPE you’ve sended.

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