newrelic-cli A Python CLI client and library for New Relic's API

newrelic-cli allows setting up your New Relic monitors using simple CLI tool. Also it provides a set of libraries that can be easily integrated in other Python projects. It is based on v3 version of the API when possible, falling back to v2 when features are not available in v3.

Currently only Synthetics monitors and alerts are supported.

Installation

To install using pip:

$ pip install newrelic_cli

To install from the source code:

$ git clone https://github.com/NativeInstruments/newrelic-cli.git
$ cd newrelic-cli
$ python setup.py install

Configuration

secrets

For Synthetics checks newrelic-cli uses NewRelic's Synthetics API. In order to be able to use it you have to provide admin's API key to the script. More information on New Relic API keys can be found at: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/rest-api-v2/requirements/api-keys

The API key should be stored in the secrets configuration file in the following format:

By default newrelic-cli will look for secrets config in the file: ~/.new_relic/secrets.yaml. This setting can be overriden with --secrets-file command-line flag

monitors

Configuration of the monitors is stored in the configuration file. By default newrelic-cli looks up for the config.yaml in the current working directory. This setting can be overriden with --config-file or -c command-line arguments.

The configuration file has the following format:

The monitors section in the configuration file represents set of monitors. Each monitor definition starts with a label. Label can be any string and must be unique. Inside of the definition the following fields are recognized:

• name - optional name of the monitor. Must be unique. If not set - a label is used instead.
• type - required monitor type. So far only SCRIPT_API is supported
• frequency - required monitor check frequency in minutes. Must be one of 1, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 360, 720, or 1440 (this is a limitation on the New Relic side)
• locations - required list of locations for checks. Full list of supported locations available in New Relic documentation: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/synthetics-rest-api/monitor-examples/manage-synthetics-monitors-via-rest-api#list-locations
• alert_policy - optional name of the New Relic Alert Policy used in case of script failure.
• script_file - required field describing the script file to be used for the monitor

The context section of the configuration file contains a YAML dict with key-value paris. This context will be applied to each template script file before uploading it. Values of the global context may be overriden by each script's own context.

script file options

• name - required path to the file containing script. Can be absolute or relative to the configuration file.
• template - optional templating format used to parse configuration file. Currently only jinja is supported
• context - optional field containing YAML dict with key-value pairs. This context will be applied to the template before uploading it. Can contain same keys as global context. In this case values from local context will override global values.

Usage

Python package installs a runnable script called newrelic-cli. Currently the following actions are supported:

• upload-monitors - uploads all monitors described in the configuration file. Filter regex limiting scope can be supplied using --filter or -f options.
• delete-monitos - deletes all monitors that match filter provided in --filter or -f option. By default doesn't match on anything.
• list-monitors - outputs a list of all monitors that are currently present on the New Relic. Also supports --filter or -f options.