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New Relic Component

Easily manage metrics, logs, and events

Component key: new-relic

Description

New Relic is a San Francisco, California-based technology company which develops cloud-based software to help website and application owners track the performances of their services. This component allows you to send events, logs and metrics to your New Relic Account.

Connections

API Key

After you obtain an API key from your New Relic Account Settings. The New Relic API key can be put directly into a New Relic connection.

InputNotesExample
API Key

Provide the API key from the developer console.

example187843230995241

Actions

Raw Request

Send raw HTTP request to New Relic | key: rawRequest

InputNotesExample
Base URLhttps://api.newrelic.com/v2
Connection
Data

The HTTP body payload to send to the URL.

{"exampleKey": "Example Data"}
Debug Request

Enabling this flag will log out the current request.

false
File Data

File Data to be sent as a multipart form upload.

[{key: "example.txt", value: "My File Contents"}]
File Data File Names

File names to apply to the file data inputs. Keys must match the file data keys above.

Form Data

The Form Data to be sent as a multipart form upload.

[{"key": "Example Key", "value": new Buffer("Hello World")}]
Header

A list of headers to send with the request.

User-Agent: curl/7.64.1
Max Retry Count

The maximum number of retries to attempt. Specify 0 for no retries.

0
Method

The HTTP method to use.

Query Parameter

A list of query parameters to send with the request. This is the portion at the end of the URL similar to ?key1=value1&key2=value2.

Response Type

The type of data you expect in the response. You can request json, text, or binary data.

json
Retry On All Errors

If true, retries on all erroneous responses regardless of type. This is helpful when retrying after HTTP 429 or other 3xx or 4xx errors. Otherwise, only retries on HTTP 5xx and network errors.

false
Retry Delay (ms)

The delay in milliseconds between retries. This is used when 'Use Exponential Backoff' is disabled.

0
Timeout

The maximum time that a client will await a response to its request

2000
URL

Input the path only (/labels.json), The base URL is already included (https://api.newrelic.com/v2). For example, to connect to https://api.newrelic.com/v2/labels.json, only /labels.json is entered in this field.

/labels.json
Use Exponential Backoff

Specifies whether to use a pre-defined exponential backoff strategy for retries. When enabled, 'Retry Delay (ms)' is ignored.

false

Send Detailed Logs

Use the Log API to send a detailed log using a custom request body to New Relic | key: sendDetailedLogs

InputNotesExample
Message

Provide a JSON object containing the message of logs you want to send.

Connection

{
"data": {
"requestId": "6af0a5fe-0001-b000-0000"
}
}

Send Event Data

Use the Event API to send custom event data to New Relic | key: sendEventData

InputNotesExample
Account Id

Provide the unique identifier of your New Relic Insights account.

8439034
Additional Attributes

Provide any key value pairs to pass with your request body.

Event Type

Can be a combination of alphanumeric characters, underscores, and colons

Purchase
Connection

{
"data": {
"requestId": "6af0a5fe-0001-b000-0000"
}
}

Send Logs

Use the Log API to send log data to New Relic | key: sendLogs

InputNotesExample
Message

Provide a JSON string containing the message of logs you want to send.

{"service-name": "my-service", "user": {"id": 123, "name": "alice"}}
Connection
Timestamp

Provide a valid UNIX timestamp to be passed alongside the logs.

1562767499238

{
"data": {
"requestId": "6af0a5fe-0001-b000-0000"
}
}

Send Metric Data

Use the Metric API to send custom metrics to the New Relic | key: sendMetrics

InputNotesExample
Attributes

A map of key value pairs associated with this specific metric. Values can be strings, JSON numbers, or booleans. Keys are case-sensitive and must be less than 255 characters.

memory.heap
Metric Name

Provide the name of the metric you would like to report.

memory.heap
Metric Type

Provide a string value for the type of metric you would like to report. In order to correctly chose this value refer to the list of types here: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-apis/understand-data/metric-data/metric-data-type/

gauge
Metric Value

Provide a value to report.

2.3
Connection
Timestamp

Provide a valid UNIX timestamp to be passed alongside the logs.

1562767499238

{
"data": {
"requestId": "6af0a5fe-0001-b000-0000"
}
}