New Relic is a data management platform that gives you real-time insights of your data for developers, operations and management teams.
The Fluent Bit nrlogs
output plugin allows you to send your logs to New Relic service.
Before to get started with the plugin configuration, make sure to obtain the proper account to get access to the service. You can register and start with a free trial in the following link:
Key | Description | Default |
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base_uri |
Full address of New Relic API end-point. By default the value points to
the US end-point.
If you want to use the EU end-point you can set this key to the following
value:
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https://log-api.newrelic.com/log/v1 |
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api_key |
Your key for data ingestion. The API key is also called the ingestion key, you can get more details on how to generated in the official documentation here. From a configuration perspective either an |
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license_key |
Optional authentication parameter for data ingestion.
Note that New Relic suggest to use the |
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| compress | Set the compression mechanism for the payload. This option allows two values: gzip
(enabled by default) or false
to disable compression. | gzip |
workers | The number of workers to perform flush operations for this output. | 0 |
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The following configuration example, will emit a dummy example record and ingest it on New Relic. Copy and paste the following content in a file called newrelic.conf
:
[SERVICE]
flush 1
log_level info
[INPUT]
name dummy
dummy {"message":"a simple message", "temp": "0.74", "extra": "false"}
samples 1
[OUTPUT]
name nrlogs
match *
api_key YOUR_API_KEY_HERE
run Fluent Bit with the new configuration file:
$ fluent-bit -c newrelic.conf
Fluent Bit output:
Fluent Bit v1.5.0
* Copyright (C) 2019-2020 The Fluent Bit Authors
* Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Treasure Data
* Fluent Bit is a CNCF sub-project under the umbrella of Fluentd
* https://fluentbit.io
[2020/04/10 10:58:32] [ info] [storage] version=1.0.3, initializing...
[2020/04/10 10:58:32] [ info] [storage] in-memory
[2020/04/10 10:58:32] [ info] [storage] normal synchronization mode, checksum disabled, max_chunks_up=128
[2020/04/10 10:58:32] [ info] [engine] started (pid=2772591)
[2020/04/10 10:58:32] [ info] [output:newrelic:newrelic.0] configured, hostname=log-api.newrelic.com:443
[2020/04/10 10:58:32] [ info] [sp] stream processor started
[2020/04/10 10:58:35] [ info] [output:nrlogs:nrlogs.0] log-api.newrelic.com:443, HTTP status=202
{"requestId":"feb312fe-004e-b000-0000-0171650764ac"}