Time gaps with missing data

Problem

Your New Relic infrastructure agent is up and running, but when your CPU reaches a high percentage of usage, the agent stops intermittently to submit data.

Solution

Required agent version: 1.0.1002 or later

The following steps mitigate the data gaps problem:

1. Remove the limit of one thread for the agent, allowing one thread per core.

   Edit the newrelic-infra.yml configuration file (Windows)

   1. Open the following file in your favorite plain text editor: C:\Program Files\New Relic\newrelic-infra\newrelic-infra.yml

   2. Add the following configuration option:

      max_procs: -1

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   Edit the newrelic-infra.yml configuration file (Linux)

   1. Open the following file in your favorite plain text editor: /etc/newrelic-infra.yml

   2. Add the following configuration option:

      max_procs: -1

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2. Use your init system to restart the agent service:

   Restart the agent with SystemD

   Use SystemD commands with CentOS 7, Debian 8, RHEL 7, and Ubuntu 15.04 or higher:

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   $
   sudo systemctl restart newrelic-infra

   Restart the agent with System V

   Use System V commands with Debian 7:

   bash

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   $
   sudo /etc/init.d/newrelic-infra restart

   Restart the agent with Upstart

   Use Upstart commands with Amazon Linux, CentOS 6, RHEL 6, and Ubuntu 14.10 or lower:

   bash

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   $
   sudo initctl restart newrelic-infra

   Restart the agent in Windows

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   $
   net stop newrelic-infra
   $
   net start newrelic-infra

Cause

The New Relic infrastructure agent, by default, runs in a single operating system thread. This may mean that, especially in Windows environments, the process scheduler gives it little chance to get CPU time when the system is overloaded.

The max_procs: -1 configuration option removes this limitation and allows the agent to use one thread per CPU core (as maximum).