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Nick Ginanto
Nick Ginanto

Reputation: 32130

Using New-Relic Data to create a status page

I want to use new relic data such as throughput, uptime, load time etc, for my own status page, to be publicly available. I want to save these values to redis or similar and then plot them in a page

Is there a way to extract the values from new relic at a given time through some API?

I can't find any API documentation on how to extract this kind of data into an app?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 585

Answers (1)

NR_Tony
NR_Tony

Reputation: 185

The place to start is https://newrelic.com/docs/instrumentation/getting-started-with-the-new-relic-rest-api and there are more details at http://newrelic.github.io/newrelic_api/

Accessing data from New Relic's API is pretty easy, but there are a few common stumbling blocks:

  • time windows must be expressed in XML time and always as GMT (timezone=Z)
  • you must specify a field when querying a metric
  • threshold_values might return different numbers than you see in your UI because the UI shows you numbers from a 5 minute window and the API shows a 3 minute window

Keep in mind that all metrics will be available according to New Relic's retention policy for your subscription level https://newrelic.com/docs/subscriptions/data-retention

If your results are something that other New Relic users might find useful, it'd be great to see this posted on GitHub!

Upvotes: 2

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