Configure the infrastructure agent on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Beanstalk is a dynamic service that allows easy deployment and scalability for your applications. Follow these instructions to deploy the infrastructure agent to the instances launched with your AWS Elastic Beanstalk applications.

In addition to deploying the infrastructure agent you can also integrate New Relic with AWS and bring Elastic Beanstalk monitoring information into New Relic. If you haven't already done so, follow these instructions for Amazon integrations with infrastructure monitoring.

Requirements

Make sure you have a supported Amazon Web Services account. In addition, for any New Relic installation, you will need your license key. This is a 40-character hexadecimal string that New Relic provides when you sign up for your account.

Install the infrastructure agent

To install the infrastructure agent on instances launched with AWS Elastic Beanstalk:

1. In the .ebextensions folder inside your Elastic BeanStalk application, create a new file named newrelic.config.

2. Based on the operating system, add the following content to the file:

   • Replace YOUR_LICENSE_KEY with your New Relic license key.

   • Replace x86_64 with aarch64 when running on ARM (Graviton).

     Amazon Linux 2

     files:
       "/etc/newrelic-infra.yml":
         mode: "000644"
         owner: root
         group: root
         content: |
           license_key: YOUR_LICENSE_KEY
     
     commands:
       # Create the agent’s yum repository
       "01-agent-repository":
         command: sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/newrelic-infra.repo https://download.newrelic.com/infrastructure_agent/linux/yum/amazonlinux/2/x86_64/newrelic-infra.repo
       #
       # Update your yum cache
       "02-update-yum-cache":
         command: yum -q makecache -y --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo='newrelic-infra'
       #
       # Run the installation script
       "03-run-installation-script":
         command: sudo yum install newrelic-infra -y

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     Amazon Linux 2023

     files:
       "/etc/newrelic-infra.yml":
         mode: "000644"
         owner: root
         group: root
         content: |
           license_key: YOUR_LICENSE_KEY
     
     commands:
       # Create the agent’s yum repository
       "01-agent-repository":
         command: sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/newrelic-infra.repo https://download.newrelic.com/infrastructure_agent/linux/yum/amazonlinux/2023/x86_64/newrelic-infra.repo
       #
       # Update your yum cache
       "02-update-yum-cache":
         command: yum -q makecache -y --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo='newrelic-infra'
       #
       # Run the installation script
       "03-run-installation-script":
         command: sudo yum install newrelic-infra -y

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     Windows

     packages:
       msi:
         infrastructure: https://download.newrelic.com/infrastructure_agent/windows/newrelic-infra.msi
     files:
       "C:\\Program Files\\New Relic\\newrelic-infra\\newrelic-infra.yml":
         content: |
           license_key: YOUR_LICENSE_KEY
     commands:
       01_stop-newrelic-infra:
         command: net stop newrelic-infra
         ignoreErrors: true
       02_start-newrelic-infra:
         command: net start newrelic-infra
         ignoreErrors: true

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3. Push your app to Elastic BeanStalk:

   • In general, use eb deploy.
   • If you are still using Eb CLI 2.6 , use git aws.push if required.
   • Optional: Use the AWS Console UI.

After a successful setup, it can take up to fifteen minutes before metrics begin to appear in New Relic. View your host's infrastructure pages at one.newrelic.com.

Configure the infrastructure agent

To configure the infrastructure agent, either adapt the agent configuration file or use environment variables to determine the agent settings based on our requirements. Settings can be applied using any of the methods listed below:

• Settings in file: Edit the newrelic.config file in the .ebextensions folder with additional agent settings. Settings should be included in the newrelic-infra.yml file content.
• Settings in environment variables: Define the required NRIA_* environment variables via Elastic Beanstalk UI, API or CLI. It's also possible to define them via option_settings in the newrelic.config file. Learn more from AWS Beanstalk documentation.

Uninstall the infrastructure agent

To uninstall the agent, update the newrelic.config from .ebextensions with the following configuration, then update the deployment.

commands:
  # Remove agent configuration file
  "04-agent-remove-config":
    command: sudo rm /etc/newrelic-infra.yml
  #
  # Uninstall infra agent
  "05-agent-uninstall":
    command: sudo yum remove newrelic-infra -y

commands:
  03_uninstall-newrelic-infra:
    command: wmic product where name="New Relic Infrastructure Agent" call uninstall
    ignoreErrors: true