New Relic Phoenix

This package adds Phoenix specific instrumentation on top of the new_relic_agent package. You may use all the built-in capabilities of the New Relic Agent!

Check out the agent for more:

• https://github.com/newrelic/elixir_agent
• https://hexdocs.pm/new_relic_agent

Installation

• Install the Hex package

• Cowboy 2 is required. Phoenix support was introduced in 1.4

def deps do
  [
    {:new_relic_phoenix, "~> 0.1"},
    {:phoenix, "~> 1.4"},
    {:plug_cowboy, "~> 2.0"}
  ]
end

Configuration

• You must configure new_relic_agent to authenticate to New Relic. Please see: https://github.com/newrelic/elixir_agent/#configuration

Instrumentation

• Inside your Phoenix Endpoint module, use the NewRelic.Phoenix.Transaction module:

defmodule MyApp.Endpoint do
  use Phoenix.Endpoint, otp_app: :my_app
  use NewRelic.Phoenix.Transaction
  # ...
end

• In your Phoenix Endpoint configuration, add the instrumenter:

config :my_app, MyApp.Endpoint,
  instrumenters: [NewRelic.Phoenix.Instrumenter]