NewRelic for Erlang

This library implements the New Relic API and allows sending arbitrary metrics directly to their collectors from Erlang. New Relic is a paid "application monitoring" service.

You need to supply the metrics on the correct format. If you happen to be using statman you can use the included newrelic_statman transformer. It is fairly easy to transform the metrics, so if you're using Folsom, estatsd or your own tools, have a look at newrelic_statman to see how it's done.

Configuration

Two application environment variables must be set in the newrelic app:

• application_name: human readable name of the app, will show up in the web interface
• license_key: secret license key

Statman integration

If you're using Statman and use the following conventions for naming your keys, you can use New Relic "for free".

• {<<"/hello/world">>, {class, segment}} - Web transaction, class and segment can be anything and will show up in the "Performance breakdown"
• {<<"/hello/world">>, {db, <<"something">>}} - Web transaction with database access, will show up in the "Performance breakdown" as well as "Overview". Unfortunately not in "Database" yet
• {<<"/hello/world">>, total} - Total time of the transaction, inclusive any children. Will show up in the "Overview"
• {<<"/hello/world">>, {ext, <<"some.host.name">>}} - External call inside a web transaction, will show up in the "Performance breakdown" and "External services"
• {foo, bar} - Background task - old format
• {background, <<"foo">>}, {class, segment}} - Background task segment.
• {background, <<"foo">>}, total} - Background task total time.
• {<<"/hello/world">>, {error, {type, message}}} - Error, counters with keys like this will show up in under "Errors"