Infrastructure inventory UI page

Search for an inventory item using the search function.

For example, if you want to find information related to OpenSSL, search openssl. The search term is matched against the inventory item name.

Inventory item details provide host and system information for each host it resides on according to the New Relic inventory item name. If you have different versions of the same item on other hosts, New Relic detects that and flags them on the Inventory page with the variant hosts label and lists each host running each version.

Item details are attributes (key/value pairs) that are dictated by their source. Specific attributes are generally stable over time, but new ones may be added and others could be deprecated. Attributes carry the critical metadata that are at the heart of each inventory item.

Common inventory item attributes include:

• Variant hosts (hostname)
• Architecture
• Description
• Essential
• Priority
• Status
• Version

To view one or more host's alert threshold incidents, select the host's Critical icon or Warning icon.

The infrastructure agent collects this data for Linux systems.

The infrastructure agent uses a combination of built-in instrumentation and the com.newrelic.winpkg integration to collect system information on Windows hosts. The following table shows the data that is collected on Windows systems.

Data collected varies by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) integration. For more information, see specific docs for our Amazon integrations.

With New Relic infrastructure monitoring, you can combine filters into a filter set to organize hosts based on criteria that matter the most to you. Your account may have hundreds of hosts reporting to it, so focusing on what's important is crucial for being able to troubleshoot effectively.

See patterns within categories

You can create filter sets using available attributes or tags.

For example, you can organize your infrastructure into categories such as:

• Regions

• Operating system versions

• Hosts associated with Docker containers

• Test environments

  You can share filter sets with other people in your account, and you can quickly identify infrastructure problems by checking the color-coded health status of each host in the filter set.

  Create filter sets

  The default infrastructure filter set is All hosts, and it serves as a template for you to create filter sets.

  To create a filter set:

1. Go to one.newrelic.com > All capabilities > Infrastructure and click Inventory or Events.

2. If All hosts is not displayed in the left sidebar, open that filter set by selecting Saved filter sets > All hosts.

3. In All hosts, click Filter hosts.

4. In the list, click an item to see a list of values.

5. Click Include or Exclude (see Filter set logic).

6. Click values individually or enter text to match multiple values.

7. Continue adding filters until you have the filter set you want.

8. To name your filter, click the icon, type a name, and click Save.

   Edit filter sets

   To change an existing filter set:

9. In the sidebar, click Saved filter sets to open a list.

10. Locate the filter set by scrolling or by entering a search term.

11. Click the filter set to open it.

12. In the sidebar, click an option to update your filter set, and then save.

    Filter set logic

    When you create a filter set, you generate a list of attributes and/or tags that narrow the results. This section explains how filter sets apply various rules to the list.

    Inclusion and exclusion

    As part of building a filter set, you designate whether a filter should include or exclude entities that match certain values.

    The way the inclusion or exclusion works depends on how you select values:

    Recommended: Select values by matching a string

    You can generate a list of values by entering a string that you want values to match. This is useful for matching multiple values.

    Tip

    String matching efficiently generates a list of values, and this approach scales as you add new entities.

    Here is the logic filter sets use with string matching:

    Comparator	Logic
    Include	If you click Include and then enter a string that you want values to match, the filter uses the comparator LIKE, which means the results include any entities that are like the string. For example, you could filter by the term East-, and all entities that contain that term are returned.
    Exclude	If you click Exclude and then enter a string that you want values to match, the filter uses the comparator NOT LIKE, which means the results exclude any entities that are like the string. For example, you could filter by the term West-, and all entities that do not contain that term are returned.

    Select values individually

    You can click through the list of attributes/tags to identify individual values.

    Tip

    This approach does not scale well if you add new entities.

    Here is the logic filter sets use with individual value selection:

    Comparator	Logic
    Include	If you click Include and then click specific values, the filter uses the comparator IN, which means the filter looks for entities that exactly match one or more values in your list of selections.
    Exclude	If you click Exclude and then click specific values, the filter set uses the comparator NOT IN, which means the filter returns all entities that do not exactly match one or more values in your list of selections.

    And/Or

    Filter sets use the logical operators AND and OR behind the scenes to join the data.

• When you click values from multiple attributes or tags, they are joined by AND.

• When you click values from within an attribute or tags, they are joined by OR.

  The filter results display hosts for which both of the following are true:

• Hosts containing any one of the selected infrastructure agent versions

• Hosts in any one of the selected AWS availability zones