Apache Traffic Server integration

Our Apache Traffic Server integration monitors the performance of your Apache Traffic Server HTTP/HTTPS traffic can be forwarded or reverse proxyed in either or both directions, providing both performance and scalability.

Install the infrastructure agent

To get data into New Relic, install our infrastructure agent. Our infrastructure agent collects and ingests data so you can keep track of your app's performance. The version should be 1.10.7 or higher to support NRI-Flex integration.

You can install the infrastructure agent two different ways:

• Our guided install is a CLI tool that inspects your system and installs the infrastructure agent alongside the application monitoring agent that best works for your system. To learn more about how our guided install works, check out our Guided install overview.
• If you'd rather install our infrastructure agent manually, you can follow a tutorial for manual installation for Linux, Windows, or macOS.

Install Apache New Relic Agent

Our Apache integrations collects network metrics like TCP connections, DNS lookup, HTTPS, SSL, and server and worker statuses. To install the integration, follow the steps in our guided install. If you need to install the integration in a different way, see Apache monitoring integration.

Expose your metrics

After successful installation, Apache Traffic Server has to be started successfully, then it should start running on a your_ip with port 8080. You need to configure the metrics exposed stats.

1. Go to the plugin.config file:

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   sudo nano /etc/trafficserver/plugin.config

2. Add the below line in your plugin.config file.

   stats_over_http.so

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3. Make sure your metrics are exposed on the below URL.

   Metrics of your Apache Traffic Server: http://YOUR_IP:8080/_stats

Configure NRI-Flex for Apache Traffic Server

Flex comes bundled with the New Relic infrastructure agent. To create a flex configuration file follow these steps:

1. Go to the integrations.d directory:

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   cd /etc/newrelic-infra/integrations.d

2. Create three files named nri-flex-apache-traffic-server-config.yml, nri-flex-ats-cache-config.yml, and nri-flex-ats-http-config.yml.

The value on the event_type is used to store metrics on the NRDB. Your files should look like this:

nri-flex-apache-traffic-server-config.yml:

integrations:
  - name: nri-flex
    interval: 30s
    config:
      name: ApcheTrafficServerMetrics
      apis:
        - event_type: ATSSampleMetrics
          url: http://YOUR_IP:8080/_stats 
          remove_keys:
            - http
            - cache

nri-flex-ats-cache-config.yml:

integrations:
  - name: nri-flex
    interval: 30s
    config:
      name: ATSCacheMetrics
      apis:
        - event_type: ATSCacheSampleMetrics
          url: http://YOUR_IP:8080/_stats 
          keep_keys:
            - cache

nri-flex-ats-http-config.yml:

integrations:
  - name: nri-flex
    interval: 30s
    config:
      name: ApcheTrafficServerMetrics
      apis:
        - event_type: ATSHttpSampleMetrics
          url: http://YOUR_IP:8080/_stats 
          keep_keys:
            - http

Forward Apache Traffic Server logs to New Relic

You can use our log forwarding to forward Apache Traffic Server logs to New Relic.

On Linux machines, your log file named logging.yml should be present in this path:

$
cd /etc/newrelic-infra/logging.d/

After creating the log file, add the following script to the logging.yml file:

logs:
  - name: manager
    file: /var/log/trafficserver/manager.log
    attributes:
      logtype: ats_manager_logs
  - name: diags
    file: /var/log/trafficserver/diags.log
    attributes:
      logtype: ats_diags_logs

Restart the New Relic infrastructure agent

Before you can start reading your data, use the instructions in our infrastructure agent docs to restart your infrastructure agent.

$
sudo systemctl restart newrelic-infra.service

In a couple of minutes, your Apache Traffic Server will send metrics to one.newrelic.com.

Find your data

You can choose our pre-built dashboard template named Apache Traffic Server to monitor your Apache Traffic Server server metrics. Follow these steps to use our pre-built dashboard template:

1. From one.newrelic.com, go to the + Add data page.
2. Click on Dashboards.
3. In the search bar, type Apache Traffic Server.
4. The Apache Traffic Server dashboard should appear. Click on it to install it.

Your Apache Traffic Server dashboard is considered a custom dashboard and can be found in the Dashboards UI. For docs on using and editing dashboards, see our dashboard docs.

Here is a NRQL query to check the cache total misses from the Apache Traffic Server:

SELECT latest(global.proxy.process.cache_total_misses) AS 'cache misses' FROM ATSCacheSampleMetrics

What's next?

To learn more about building NRQL queries and generating dashboards, check out these docs:

• Introduction to the query builder to create basic and advanced queries.
• Introduction to dashboards to customize your dashboard and carry out different actions.
• Manage your dashboard to adjust your dashboards display mode, or to add more content to your dashboard.