Moved to https://github.com/mediafellows/ansible-role-newrelic-plugin-agent

Ansible role for newrelic-plugin-agent

This ansible role will install and configure the Newrelic plugin agent. Based on the parameters it will setup the plugin agent to monitor different software packages.

Requirements

Role was tested on Ubuntu 14.04 but might as well work on other Debian based systems that have an apt pacakage for python-dev and python-pip.

Role Variables

Following variables should be provided:

• nr_licence_key - Your licence key for your Newrelic account.
• newrelic_plugins - list of packages to create a config for in the newrelic-plugin-agent.cfg file*. Provice necessary YAML params for each entry!

*Can theoretically be any of those package.

Dependencies

Doesn't depend on any other ansible roles

Example Playbook

Copy this role into the roles/mediapeers.newrelic-plugin-agent dir in your Ansible project. Preferably add it as a submodule. You can also install it with ansible-galaxy install mediapeers.newrelic-plugin-agent.

Then use it like so:

- name: Some Playbook
  hosts: servers
  vars:
    nr_licence_key: abc123
    newrelic_plugins:
      - nginx:
          host: localhost
          port: 8080
          path: /status_page/
      - elasticsearch:
          host: localhost
          port: 9200
          name: my_cluster
  roles:
    - mediapeers.newrelic-plugin-agent

License

BSD. Feel free to reuse. No guarantees attached.

Author Information

Stefan Horning horning@mediapeers.com