Lighttpd integration

With our Lighttpd dashboard, your team can monitor outcome measures and inventory data. Lighttpd monitoring provides important information to help you construct a complete picture of your web server's performance. This performance data includes uptime, network in bytes and packets, number of connections, and more. Metric data can be seen on our pre-built dashboards, and you can also create your own custom searches, graphs, and alert policies. Our Lighttpd integration uses a NRI-Flex setup.

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 later 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.

Integrate Lighttpd with New Relic

Once installed, the infrastructure agent can ingest data from your app and send it to New Relic, but you still need to integrate – or establish a line of communication – between the agent and your app. Once integrated, you can get started with an out of the box monitoring solution for your Lighttpd app.

cd /etc/lighttpd/

sudo nano lighttpd.conf

server.port to 9880.

server.modules = (
    "mod_indexfile",
    "mod_access”,
    "mod_alias",
    "mod_redirect”,
    "mod_status"
)

server.document-root    = "/var/www/html/lighttpd-webpage"
server.upload-dirs    = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog         = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file         = "/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username         = "www-data"
server.groupname        = "www-data"
server.port             = 9880
status.status-url       = "/server-status”

---
integrations:
  - name: nri-flex
    # interval: 30s
    config:
      name: lighttpdFlex
      global:
        base_url: http://lighttpd.net/
      apis:
        - event_type: status
          url: status?format=plain
        - event_type: {'<THE_PLACE_WHERE_METRICS_ARE_CAPTURED>'}
          commands:
            - cache: status?format=plain
              split_by: ": "
          snake_to_camel: true


  - name: nri-flex
    interval: 10s
    # timeout: 5s
    config:
      name: test
      apis:
        - event_type: {'<THE_PLACE_WHERE_METRICS_ARE_CAPTURED>'}
          commands:
            - run: curl 'http://lighttpd.net/status?auto'
              split_by: ": "
              regex_matches:
                - expression: (\w+ \w+|\w+):(\N+)\n(\w+ \w+|\w+):(\N+)\n(\w+ \w+|\w+):(\N+)\n(\w+ \w+|\w+):(\N+)\n(\w+ \w+|\w+):(\N+)\n(\w+ \w+|\w+):(\N+)\n(\w+ \w+|\w+):(\N+)\n(\w+ \w+|\w+):(\N+)

sudo systemctl restart lighttpd.service && sudo systemctl restart newrelic-infra.service

FROM lighttpdStatusSample SELECT * LIMIT MAX

FROM lighttpdStatusSample2 SELECT * LIMIT MAX

FROM lighttpdStatusSample SELECT latest(BusyServers) TIMESERIES AUTO

See Lighttpd metrics in a dashboard

With only the infrastructure agent installed and instrumented with your app, you can view your raw data in our Metrics & events. Our default dashboards transform that raw data into charts and graphs, which provide a bird's eye view of your system's health. To install our default dashboards, go to our Lighttpd instant observability page.

To instrument the Lighttpd quickstart and to see metrics and alerts, you can also follow our Lighttpd quickstart page by clicking on the “Install now” button.

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.