New Relic Prometheus OpenMetrics integration

Fetch metrics in the Prometheus metrics format, inside or outside Kubernetes, and send them to the New Relic platform.

Installation and usage

For documentation about how to use the integration, refer to our documentation website.

Find out more about Prometheus and New Relic in this blog post.

Building

Golang is required to build the integration. We recommend Golang 1.11 or higher.

This integration requires having a Kubernetes cluster available to deploy and run it. For development, we recommend using Docker, Minikube, and skaffold.

After cloning this repository, go to the directory of the Prometheus integration and build it:

$ make

The command above executes the tests for the Prometheus integration and builds an executable file called nri-prometheus under the bin directory.

To start the integration, run nri-prometheus:

$ ./bin/nri-prometheus

If you want to know more about usage of ./bin/nri-prometheus, pass the -help parameter:

$ ./bin/nri-prometheus -help

External dependencies are managed through the govendor tool. Locking all external dependencies to a specific version (if possible) into the vendor directory is required.

Build the Docker image

In case you wish to push your own version of the image to a Docker registry, you can build it with:

IMAGE_NAME=<YOUR_IMAGE_NAME> make docker-build

And push it later with docker push

Executing the integration in a development cluster

• You need to configure how to deploy the integration in the cluster. Copy deploy/local.yaml.example to deploy/local.yaml and edit the placeholders.
• To get the New Relic license key, visit: https://newrelic.com/accounts/<YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID>. It's located in the right sidebar.
• After updating the yaml file, you need to compile the integration: GOOS=linux make compile-only.
• Once you have it compiled, you need to deploy it in your Kubernetes cluster: skaffold run

Running the Kubernetes Target Retriever locally

It can be useful to run the Kubernetes Target Retriever locally against a remote/local cluster to debug the endpoints that are discovered. The binary located in /cmd/k8s-target-retriever is made for this.

To run the program, run the following command in your terminal:

# ensure your kubectl is configured correcly & against the correct cluster
kubectl config get-contexts
# run the program 
go run cmd/k8s-target-retriever/main.go

Testing

To run the tests execute:

$ make test

At the moment, tests are totally isolated and you don't need a cluster to run them.

Support

Should you need assistance with New Relic products, you are in good hands with several support diagnostic tools and support channels.

New Relic offers NRDiag, a client-side diagnostic utility that automatically detects common problems with New Relic agents. If NRDiag detects a problem, it suggests troubleshooting steps. NRDiag can also automatically attach troubleshooting data to a New Relic Support ticket.

If the issue has been confirmed as a bug or is a Feature request, please file a Github issue.

Support Channels

• New Relic Documentation: Comprehensive guidance for using our platform
• New Relic Community: The best place to engage in troubleshooting questions
• New Relic Developer: Resources for building a custom observability applications
• New Relic University: A range of online training for New Relic users of every level
• New Relic Technical Support 24/7/365 ticketed support. Read more about our Technical Support Offerings.

Privacy

At New Relic we take your privacy and the security of your information seriously, and are committed to protecting your information. We must emphasize the importance of not sharing personal data in public forums, and ask all users to scrub logs and diagnostic information for sensitive information, whether personal, proprietary, or otherwise.

We define “Personal Data” as any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual, including, for example, your name, phone number, post code or zip code, Device ID, IP address, and email address.

For more information, review New Relic’s General Data Privacy Notice.

Contribute

We encourage your contributions to improve this project! Keep in mind that when you submit your pull request, you'll need to sign the CLA via the click-through using CLA-Assistant. You only have to sign the CLA one time per project.

If you have any questions, or to execute our corporate CLA (which is required if your contribution is on behalf of a company), drop us an email at opensource@newrelic.com.

A note about vulnerabilities

As noted in our security policy, New Relic is committed to the privacy and security of our customers and their data. We believe that providing coordinated disclosure by security researchers and engaging with the security community are important means to achieve our security goals.

If you believe you have found a security vulnerability in this project or any of New Relic's products or websites, we welcome and greatly appreciate you reporting it to New Relic through HackerOne.

If you would like to contribute to this project, review these guidelines.

To all contributors, we thank you! Without your contribution, this project would not be what it is today.

License

nri-prometheus is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.