Cloud integrations release notes

Cloud integrations

Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New

The following integrations are now available for AWS GovCloud:
- Autoscaling
- CloudTrail
- DirectConnect
- EBS
- IAM
- Redshift
- Route53
- SNS
- Step Functions

Cloud integrations

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New

The following integrations are now available in beta:
- AWS Kinesis Data Analytics
New statistics for AWS ALB and AWS ELB:
- aws.applicationelb.target_response_time.p90
- aws.applicationelb.target_response_time.p95
- aws.applicationelb.target_response_time.p99
- aws.elb.latency.p90
- aws.elb.latency.p95
- aws.elb.latency.p99
AWS ElasticCache Redis Nodes are now decorated with customer tags.

Cloud integrations

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New

The following integrations are now stable (v1.0):

Cloud integrations

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New

The account status dashboard for cloud-linked accounts introduces some significant changes:

The Account changes chart lists any action that was performed on the linked cloud account configuration, from linking, renaming and enabling cloud services for monitoring, to modifying the polling intervals or any other data collection option.
The charts in the dashboard have been reorganized to better understand API call usage, errors that affect New Relic collecting data, and changes to the integrations configuration.
For Google Cloud-linked projects, the dashboard now includes the Stackdriver calls chart, which shows the amount of API calls that New Relic sends to the Google Stackdriver Monitoring API.

Cloud integrations

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New

The following integrations are now available in beta:

Cloud integrations

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Agentless monitoring for EC2, Azure VM, and standardized entity creation across EC2, Azure VMs, and GCP CE is now available.

What's new

We updated our cloud host monitoring capabilities to help you monitor your Amazon EC2, Azure VM, and GCP CE instances more effectively. You'll now have access to:

Enhanced visibility into your Amazon EC2 and Azure VM infrastructure without the need for complex setup or configuration.
Simplified set-up that eliminates manual agent installations and configuration.
For a cloud resource (EC2, Azure VM, GCP CE) same entity is created when they are instrumented by both agents or as well as in agentless mode (API Polling - AWS/Azure/GCP, Cloudwatch Metric Streams integration, Azure Monitor integration)

New Relic can detect your cloud host instances, create entities for them, and provide comprehensive insight into each host's performance, resource utilization, and health.

Cloud integrations

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New

AWS Trusted Advisor integration
- New Relic now offers an integration with AWS Trusted Advisor. AWS establishes limits for each service in each account and region. Some examples are: number of Auto Scaling groups, number of EBS active volumes, and number of EC2 elastic IP addresses. AWS recommends watching these limits, and even allows you to enable automated actions and custom notifications. That data is now also available in New Relic.
- For more information on how to enable the integration, check out the integration documentation.
Azure Cost Management integration
- New Relic now offers a cloud integration with the Azure Cost Management service. It provides the accumulated costs in the billing period, grouped by cloud service, resource group, region and (if configured) custom tags.
- For more information on how to enable the integration, check out the integration documentation.

Changes

Added new metrics for AWS ElastiCache Nodes
- ActiveDefragHits
- EngineCpuUtilization
- StreamBasedCmds
Added the option of a 5min polling interval for the VPC integration

Cloud integrations

Sat, 31 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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New

The AWS Lambda integration can now be monitored in these additional regions: South America (Sao Paulo/sa-east-1), Asia Pacific (Mumbai/ap-south-1), Canada (Central/ca-central-1) and EU (London/eu-west-2).

Changes

The descriptions of DynamoDB table, region and global secondary index entity types have been updated in the AWS DynamoDB monitoring integration document.
The list of specific permissions that are required to fetch data from AWS for each integration has been updated in the Integrations and managed policies document. Note that New Relic only recommends using a custom policy only if you're unable to use the AWS ReadOnlyAccess managed policy.

Cloud integrations

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Bug fixes

A bug affecting the Service Plan entity of the Azure App Service has been fixed. The following metrics have been renamed as a result:

sent has been renamed DiskQueueLength
received has been renamed HttpQueueLength

All other metrics stay the same.

For more information, see the Azure App Service Documentation.

Cloud integrations

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New

New Relic now offers a cloud integration with the Microsoft Azure Cost Management service. It provides the accumulated costs in the billing period, grouped by cloud service, resource group, region, and (if configured) custom tags. Learn more in the Azure Cost Management documentation.

Changes

Amazon AWS RDS cloud integration now has a couple of new metrics:

For each database engine: numVCPUs, uptime, diskIO, and device
For MS SQL engine only: memory, kernPagedKb, and process

For more information, see the AWS RDS monitoring documentation.

Cloud integrations

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New

Three new Azure Database integrations are now available:

Changes

The Azure Cosmos DB integration has been updated to gather metrics through the new Azure SDK. Details on all the new metrics can be found in the new Azure Cosmos DB integration documentation.

For information on deprecated Cosmos DB events and metrics, see Azure Cosmos DB integration (deprecated). We strongly recommend migrating to the supported events and metrics in the new Azure Cosmos DB integration.

Cloud integrations

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

New

Azure PostgreSQL and MyQL flexible servers integrations are now available. Check PostgreSQL flexible monitoring integration and MySQL flexible monitoring integration for details.

Cloud integrations

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Bug fix

Some AWS Auto Scaling entities had duplicate identifiers, causing some metadata to be missing or wrong. In order to fix this issue, New Relic has regenerated the internal externalKey attribute for all Auto Scaling entities in Insights events and Infrastructure inventory for this cloud integration.

This change doesn't have any impact either on the integration default dashboard provided by New Relic Infrastructure or on the Insights queries.

However, all entities related to AWS Auto Scaling will be created again in Inventory. Accordingly, once the fix is released in your account, you might see duplicated entities for 48 hours, until the old identifiers expire. This might also cause an unexpected volume of Entity created events.

Cloud integrations

Tue, 23 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

New

The Azure Monitor Integration is now available! This new integration enables customers to get all metrics available from Azure Monitor. Check out the documentation for more information.

Cloud integrations

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Bug fixes

Some Google Kubernetes Engine entities had duplicate identifiers. In order to fix this issue, New Relic has regenerated the internal entityId and externalKey attributes for all containers in Insights events and Infrastructure inventory for this cloud integration.
- This change doesn't have any impact either on the integration default dashboard provided by New Relic Infrastructure or on the Insights queries.
- However, all entities related to Google Kubernetes Engine will be created again in Inventory. Accordingly, you might see duplicated entities for 48 hours, until the old identifiers expire. This might also cause an unexpected volume of Entity created events.
Metadata for Google Compute Engine virtual machines was not being added to the metric events reported by the New Relic infrastructure agent. In order to fix this issue, New Relic has regenerated the internal externalKey attribute for all virtual machines and disks in Insights events and Infrastructure inventory for this cloud integration.
- This change doesn't have any impact either on the integration default dashboard provided by New Relic Infrastructure or on the Insights queries.
- However, all entities related to Google Compute Engine will be created again in Inventory. Accordingly you might see duplicated entities for 48 hours, until the old identifiers expire. This might also cause an unexpected volume of Entity created events.
For Google Cloud integrations, the value of the zone attribute was not reported consistently. As a consequence, some inventory attributes and event metadata, such as project, were not reported for some Google Cloud Storage buckets.

Cloud integrations

Wed, 30 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Tags and labels attribute renaming [#tags]

In order to make it easier to find common attributes across different data providers in New Relic infrastructure, tags and labels attribute names are going to be renamed as label.<name>, where <name> is:

The tag key for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure integrations
The label key for Google Cloud Platform integrations

The previous attribute names will be deprecated on June 21, 2018.

If you are using tags or labels in alerts, custom dashboards, or saved queries for New Relic cloud integrations, be sure to rename them using the new format before June 21, 2018.

Azure integrations: Resource group attribute renaming [#azure]

To make it easier to find common attributes across different cloud services, the resourceGroup attribute will be replaced by the resourceGroupName attribute on June 21, 2018. This affects Infrastructure integrations for:

Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Service Bus
Azure Virtual Networks

If you are using the resourceGroup attribute in alerts, custom dashboards, or saved queries for these Azure services, be sure to rename them using the new format before June 21, 2018.

Amazon Web Services S3 permissions [#aws-permissions]

The list of specific permissions that are required to fetch monitoring data from AWS S3 service has been updated with the additional s3:GetMetricsConfiguration permission in integrations and managed policies.

Recommendation: Use a custom policy only when you are unable to use the ReadOnlyAccess managed policy from AWS. If you use a custom policy, be sure to check that the listed permissions are included.

Cloud integrations

Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Changes in curated dashboards

New Relic infrastructure integrations will not automatically create new dashboards in New Relic Insights when an integration is enabled.

Instead, curated dashboards for On-host and Cloud integrations data will be embedded in the New Relic Infrastructure UI, and they can be reached from the following links:

On-host integrations:
https://infrastructure.newrelic.com/accounts/<your_account_ID>/integrations/onHostIntegrations
AWS integrations:
https://infrastructure.newrelic.com/accounts/<your_account_ID>/integrations/aws
Azure integrations:
https://infrastructure.newrelic.com/accounts/<your_account_ID>/integrations/azure
GCP integrations:
https://infrastructure.newrelic.com/accounts/<your_account_ID>/integrations/gcp

Please refer to the transition guide and the Infrastructure integration dashboards and charts documentation for more details about the new pre-built integration dashboards.

Note the existing curated dashboards that had been automatically created in New Relic Insights through the InfrastructurePro@newrelic.com user are still available. These dashboards won't be automatically updated anymore, but now you can edit and remove them. By default, they have the same name as the dashboard in New Relic Infrastructure, that takes this format:

For on-host integrations: <Integration name>
For cloud integrations: <Integration name> - <Linked account name>

Other changes

The former systemErrors metric in the AWS DynamoDB integration is now reported in several different metrics which represent the total number of requests that generate an HTTP 500 status per operation type. Please refer to AWS DynamoDB monitoring integration for details.

New

The AWS RDS integration now provides new metrics for RDS database instances and Amazon Aurora clusters. Check AWS RDS monitoring integration for details.
The Azure App Service integration now provides new metrics to monitor connections and performance of Web Apps. Check Azure App Service monitoring integration for details.

Cloud integrations

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Changes

AWS SES integration is now enabled for all new regions

Cloud integrations

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New: Enable or disable attribute collection via UI

You can enable or disable the collection of extended inventory attributes through New Relic's user interface for AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB), Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Block Store (EBS), Route53 and Simple Notification Service (SNS). This tool helps you reduce the amount of calls that New Relic does to AWS APIs, and it might contribute to contain your AWS bill. For more information, see the documentation for:

Configuring the polling frequency of data collection through the infrastructure integrations UI
Attributes that make part of extended inventory in each cloud integration

New: View errors fetching data via UI

Also, the cloud integrations Account status dashboard shows any errors New Relic might experience when trying to fetch inventory and metric data for your cloud resources. The Fetching errors chart now shows the cloud service these resources belong to. This will help to facilitate troubleshooting the integration setup.

Cloud integrations

Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Updated

As previously announced, we're ending support for Inventory data pushed from our Cloud Integrations (AWS, Azure, GCP).

What is changing?

Inventory data is currently collected on many AWS, Azure, and GCP integrations. It represents static configuration data or resource metadata. Information from hosts or on-host integrations in Inventory is not affected by this change.

What is Inventory?

Inventory data is information about the state and configuration of a service, e.g. service settings. Data appears in the Inventory page and some integration dashboards in the original infrastructure experience. Changes to inventory data generate New Relic InfrastructureEvent events that can be queried and alerted on.

Capabilities that will no longer be available

When browsing to Infrastructure > Inventory, any source from aws/*, azure/* or gcp/* will no longer be available.
Built-in dashboards available in Infrastructure > AWS | Azure | GCP | GovCloud that contain inventory or infrastructure events widgets will no longer display data. These dashboards are planned to be migrated as standard New Relic dashboards enabling all the new capabilities (edit, sharing, new visualizations, and more) which are not available in the original dashboard experience for infrastructure monitoring.
Queries using aws, azure or gcp sources from InfrastructureEvent will no longer report data.

Why is this capability being deprecated?

Customers find more value in Host Inventory, which is not being deprecated, but less value in Cloud Integrations.

Alternatives

Most of the attributes available as Inventory in the polling integrations are also available as metric metadata or tags, so you can query for this information.
A limited set of integrations also published the same information available in Inventory as standard New Relic Events. In example, the AWS Health integration.

How does this affect AWS CloudWatch metric streams and future integrations for Azure & GCP?

Inventory isn't available in AWS CloudWatch metric stream, so there's no impact on this capability.
New integrations for Azure and GCP will be focused on MELT telemetry: Metrics, Events, Logs & Traces, with special focus on Metrics.

Feedback

After this feature is deprecated, if you encounter any issues, you can get help by following these steps in the UI:

Log in to your New Relic account.
Visit our comprehensive Help Center. It contains a wealth of information and resources.
If you need further assistance, click Create a Support Case and our team will be happy to assist you.

Cloud integrations

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New

The following integrations are now stable (v1.0):

Bug fixes

As of today we verify that the "External ID" is configured to the AWS Role and we do not accept empty values. This protects customers from cross account attacks.

Cloud integrations

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New

AWS GovCloud support is now stable (v1.0)

Bug fixes

Fixed vulnerability in the GCP integrations registration workflow

Cloud integrations

Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

New for Amazon Web Services monitoring

New Relic has optimized the way to fetch metrics from AWS CloudWatch. This has resulted in a significant reduction in the number of calls to your AWS CloudWatch service, as well as a reduction in data lag. The list of specific permissions that are required to fetch monitoring data from AWS services has been updated accordingly, with the additional cloudwatch:GetMetricData permission.
Recommendation: Use a custom policy only when you are unable to use the ReadOnlyAccessmanaged policy from AWS. If you use a custom policy, be sure to check that the new permission is included.
AWS Redshift integration now provides four new metrics to monitor the performance of multi-node clusters: QueriesCompletedPerSecond, WLMQueriesCompletedPerSecond, QueryDuration, and WLMQueryDuration. Check AWS Redshift integration for details.
If you use AWS API Gateway, you can now fine-tune the data gathered for this service by specifying the stages you want to monitor with the new Filter by stage name prefixes. Check Configure polling frequency and data collection for cloud integrations for details.

New for Google Cloud Platform monitoring

Google Kubernetes Engine integration is now available. If you're using Kubernetes v1.10.2 or later, now you can get visibility into containers, nodes, and pods. This cloud integration is complementary to New Relic's Kubernetes on-host integration.
You can now link your GCP projects to New Relic using a service account. If you had already used a user account to link your projects, you can migrate to the new authorization type, though the UI. Check Connect Google Cloud Platform services to Infrastructure for details.

Changes in Google Cloud Platform integrations

The default dashboards for Google Cloud Platform integrations now include a filter by Project ID. This is very useful if you monitor more than one project from the same Google Stackdriver Monitor service.

Cloud integrations

Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New

The AWS EMR integration has been optimized to reduce the number of API calls that are made to collect data for terminated clusters, while ensuring that the latest metrics and inventory attribute values will be reported.
The AWS Route 53 integration has been optimized to reduce the number of calls to the AWS API that are needed to fetch hosted zone data. It's just one call per 100 hosted zones now, while an additional call per hosted zone was made before.
In the AWS RDS integration, the inventory attribute allocatedStorageBytes has been added to the RDS instance metric events, so now it's possible to calculate free storage percentage with an NRDB query:
```
SELECT min(provider.freeStorageSpaceBytes.Minimum * 100 / provider.allocatedStorageBytes) FROM DatastoreSample where provider = 'RdsDbInstance' FACET displayName TIMESERIES AUTO
```

Bug fixes

When creating an Integrations alert condition through the user interface, some data sources were wrong or missing in the list:
- For the Google Kubernetes Engine integration, GcpKubernetesPod and GcpKubernetesNode data sources should be used instead of GcpKubernetesPodSample and GcpKubernetesNodeSample, respectively.
- For the Google Cloud Pub/Sub integration, GcpPubSubSubscription and GcpPubSubTopic data sources should be used instead of GcpPubSubSubscriptionSample and GcpPubSubTopicSample, respectively.
- For the Google Cloud Functions integration, GcpCloudFunction data source should be used instead of GcpCloudFunctionSample.
- For the AWS Lambda integration used together with AWS CloudFront, the LambdaEdgeFunction data source was missing.
In the AWS VPC integration, the value of the provider attribute for PrivateNetworkSample events, was fixed from VpcEnpoint to VpcEndpoint.
For the AWS API Gateway integration, the Count metric aggregate, which provides the number of calls to API methods, has been changed from Sum to Sample Count. This change requires that you manually update all the alert conditions and custom Insights dashboards that involve the deprecated Sum metric.
- To update an alert condition, use New Relic Infrastructure Alerts UI or API and edit the metric that defines the threshold for the ApiGatewayApi data source. If you use the UI, please replace Provider - Count - Sum with Provider - Count - Sample Count. If you use the API, please replace provider.count.Sum with provider.count.SampleCount.
- To update an Insights dashboard, use New Relic Insights UI or API and edit the chart queries that involve the provider.count.Sum to replace it with provider.count.SampleCount.
- In particular, if you enabled AWS API Gateway monitoring before December 2018, New Relic might have created a "AWS API Gateway (APIs)" dashboard automatically. This dashboard contains the "Total Calls compare with 1 hour ago" chart, which involves the provider.count.Sum metric that needs to be replaced.
- Please note that the default dashboards shown under New Relic Infrastructure have already been updated.

Cloud integrations

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Improvements

We are upgrading our Infrastructure Cloud Alerting to use the New Relic Streaming Alerts backend. While you will not see any changes to the frontend UI or API, the backend implementation is moving to our new streaming alerts pipeline, with streaming algorithms that are specifically tuned for polling based cloud integrations.

As a result, your Infrastructure Cloud Alerts should have a significantly improved time-to-detect (they will be faster), with increased reliability and accuracy. The latency between when your data is retrieved from the cloud provider, and when it is evaluated by the alerts engine should be less than 1 minute. However, we can not improve the time it takes for the cloud provider to return the data to us.

This rollout begins on 11/12/2020, and is targeted to complete by 11/24/2020. There will not be any visual indication when your individual accounts have been migrated. They will just start to perform better. If you experience any issues, please contact customer support or your account team.

Cloud integrations

Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Fixes to Cloud Integrations API Validations

We're updating how NerdGraph handles certain requests for the cloud namespace:

The validations for boolean fields have been updated. From now on, null values will be rejected for these fields.
The inventory polling interval and metrics polling interval integer fields have been updated as well. Going forward, these fields will no longer accept null values.
The tagKey parameter under GCP and AWS integrations will no longer accept empty strings as value.

These updates are a bugfix that prevent you from using these values, which in some cases are broken or functionally confusing.

Please ensure that you're providing valid values for these fields in your requests.

To get more information on how to use cloud integration APIs, please see the Configure cloud integrations NerdGraph tutorial.

Cloud integrations

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New

New Relic now collects labels for Google Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Functions services. They join BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage integrations, which were collecting labels already. With the appropriate permissions, you'll be able to use the following metadata to narrow down queries, dashboards, and alerts related to Google Cloud resources:
- Labels for Functions.
- Labels for SQL databases.
- Labels for Kubernetes clusters, which are propagated to nodes, pods and containers. If you'd like entity specific labels to be collected, you can use the Kubernetes integration.
- Labels and tags for Compute Engine virtual machines, and labels for disks. Tags are treated as a regular label with value true.
Additionally, Inventory for Google Compute Engine and Google Cloud Functions has been enhanced with new attributes and restructured, so it's easier to find the metadata that belongs to each entity.
The aforementioned improvements might cause an unexpected volume of Entity modified events, as Inventory will be updated with the new data.

Cloud integrations

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

New

If you're using Lambda@Edge to execute Lambda functions in AWS regions that are closer to your clients, you can get function execution location metadata by enabling the new Collect Lambda@Edge data filter in the AWS CloudFront integration.
The status of AWS VPC Network Interfaces and AWS VPC Peering Connections is now available, both as an inventory attribute (status) and as metrics metadata (provider.status).
The launch type of AWS ECS services is now available as an inventory attribute (launchType) and as metrics metadata (provider.launchType). It contains the type of infrastructure on which tasks and services are hosted (EC2 or FARGATE).

Changes

The default dashboard for AWS ELB has been updated: the previous chart named "Healthy vs. Unhealthy Hosts" has been replaced by a new chart named "ELBs with no healthy hosts", which shows more accurately the number of elastic load balancers that are not able to send traffic to any healthy target.
The default dashboard for AWS ALB has been updated: the previous chart named "Healthy vs. Unhealthy Hosts" has been replaced by a new chart named "Target Groups with no healthy hosts", which shows more accurately the number of target groups that don't have any healthy target host to send traffic to.

Cloud integrations

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New

By default, Infrastructure collects EC2 instance metadata that includes public and private IP addresses, and network interface details. Now the AWS EC2 monitoring integration includes a toggle not to store and display these IP data as inventory or Insights events metadata.

Changes

The New Relic Infrastructure menu structure has been updated to make it easier to navigate the data.
- Now the three supported cloud providers tabs (AWS, Azure and GCP) are always visible in the Infrastructure navigation bar.
- All metrics for hosts are now grouped under a Hosts section. Metrics related to system, network, storage, processes are accessible using new navigation tabs.
- On-host services such as Nginx, MySQL or Redis are grouped under a new Third-party services navigation item, while the Kubernetes cluster explorer can be accessed from the Kubernetes tab.

Cloud integrations

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

New

AWS IoT integration is now available. Check AWS IoT monitoring integration for details.
AWS EMR integration is now available. Check AWS EMR monitoring integration for details.
AWS Health integration is now available. Check AWS Health monitoring integration for details.
AWS CloudTrail integration is now available. Check AWS CloudTrail monitoring integration for details.
Azure Redis Cache integration is now available. Check Azure Redis Cache monitoring integration for details.

Cloud integrations

Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New

The following integrations have been released as beta:
- [Beta] AWS Amazon MQ
- [Beta] AWS MSK
- [Beta] AWS Amazon Athena
- [Beta] AWS Step Functions
- [Beta] AWS Direct Connect
- [Beta] AWS Amazon DocumentDB
- [Beta] AWS WAF
- [Beta] AWS AppSync
- [Beta] AWS QLDB
- [Beta] AWS GovCloud
Direct authentication with API keys is now available for AWS integrations
Account status dashboard now features the following data:
- Authentication errors
- Permission errors

Cloud integrations

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

New

Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams is a new way to send metrics for all AWS services and custom namespaces to New Relic. Learn more from the following resources:

Cloud integrations

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

New

AWS CloudWatch metric stream now supports adding percentile statistics to CloudWatch metrics. The New Relic CloudWatch metric stream integration has been updated in order to automatically ingest percentiles defined in metric streams. Learn more about this capability from the CloudWatch metric stream integration documentation.

Cloud integrations

Sat, 30 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New

Three new Azure integrations have been released as beta:

Cloud integrations

Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New

The following Azure integrations have been released as beta:
- [Beta] Azure Machine Learning Services
- [Beta] Azure DataFactory
- [Beta] Azure VPN Gateways
Account status dashboard now displays the following data:
- Throttling errors per service
- Fetching errors
- Usage of deprecated log ingestion lambda
- Log-based integration errors

Cloud integrations

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

New

Azure Monitor metrics integration is now on Public Preview. This new integration allows to get all metrics available from Azure Monitor. Please refer to the documentation for details.

Cloud integrations

Tue, 30 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New

The following integrations have been launched as beta:
- [Beta] Azure Containers
- [Beta] Azure Event Hub
- [Beta] Azure Front Door
- [Beta] Azure Logic Apps

Cloud integrations

Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New

The following integrations have been launched as beta:
- [Beta] AWS Cognito
- [Beta] AWS WAF v2 (support for WAF v2. It must be enabled as a separate integration)
The following integrations are now stable (v1.0):

Cloud integrations

Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New

The following integrations have been released as beta:
- [Beta] AWS Neptune
- [Beta] AWS Connect
- [Beta] GCP Datastore
- [Beta] GCP Cloud Router
- [Beta] GCP Dataproc
- [Beta] GCP Direct Interconnect
- [Beta] GCP Dataflow
- [Beta] GCP VPC Access

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug that made the S3 integration stop fetching the bucketSizeBytes metric
Fixed a bug that prevented the S3 integration from fetching data for some buckets in regions other than us-east-1

Changes

Extended inventory is now disabled by default for all newly configured integrations
Decreased AWS IAM polling frequency to once every 60 minutes for all users. Default has been set to 60 minutes; more frequent polling is still possible by overriding the value

Cloud integrations

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New

The following integrations have been launched as beta:
- [Beta] AWS Route 53 Resolver
- [Beta] Azure Express Route

Bug fixes

There was a service name that was EMPTY in the Azure Cost Manager integration. We fixed it and now all services appear properly. The error was caused by a lag in the Azure query, a simple retry fixed the error.

Cloud integrations

Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

New

The AWS EC2 integration now collects status check results in ComputeSample events: provider.statusCheckFailed, provider.statusCheckFailedInstance, and provider.statusCheckFailedSystem. These checks are performed by AWS EC2 periodically and help identify hardware and software issues on running EC2 instances. Check AWS EC2 integration for details.
The AWS VPC integration can now provide metrics for NAT Gateways and VPN Tunnels. To collect data about these entities, please enable the corresponding filter in the integration configuration. Check AWS VPC monitoring integration for a description of AWS VPC related events and entities, as well as their metrics and attributes.
The AWS ALB integration now collects tags for ALB Target Groups that can be used in NQRL queries and dashboard filters. You can also fine-tune the data gathered with this integration by specifying the resource tag key and value you want to monitor with the new Filter by tag. Check Configure polling frequency and data collection for cloud integrations for details.

Changes

If you had enabled the AWS VPC integration and you want to keep collecting NAT Gateway inventory data, please enable the filter under the integration settings. Take into account that New Relic will also start collecting NAT Gateway metrics from that moment on, and you might notice an increase in the number of calls to AWS CloudWatch.
The AWS S3 metric BucketSizeBytes has changed to reflect all storage types. Now, this metric includes the sum of the amount of data in bytes stored in a bucket including Standard Storage, Reduced Redundancy Storage, Infrequent Access Storage (IAS), One zone IAS, and Glacier Storage including overheads. As a result, you might see an increased total number of bytes for that metric.

Cloud integrations

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

New

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL integration is now available. New Relic collects metrics for AlloyDB clusters, databases and instances. Check AlloyDB monitoring integration for details.

Cloud integrations

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

New

It's now possible to filter by tags in the Infrastructure default dashboards. In the filter, tag keys and values are grouped under the Labels category so they can be more easily found.
The AWS ALB integration now collects tags for ALB Target Groups that can be used in NQRL queries and dashboard filters. You can also fine-tune the data gathered with this integration by specifying the resource tag key and value you want to monitor with the new Filter by tag. Please refer to Configure polling frequency and data collection for cloud integrations for details.
The AWS API Gateway integration now collects tags for stages, resources and methods, which can be used in NQRL queries and dashboard filters.
The AWS Redis Cache integration now collects the OperationsPerSecond metric, which reports the number of commands processed per second by the cache server.

Changes

The threshold selector in Infrastructure Integrations Alerts now includes the metric unit, so it's much easier to configure the correct threshold value. It is available for RDS metrics, and shall be available in other services soon.
The BucketSizeBytes metric for AWS S3 buckets was returning only the size of Standard Storage objects contained in the bucket. Now the metric returns the aggregated size of all storage types. Note the BucketSizeBytes metric is included in the DatastoreSample event type with a provider value of S3Bucket.

Cloud integrations

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

New

New Relic Infrastructure can now collect metrics and inventory data from Google Cloud Platform services. The first integrations available are Google Compute Engine, Storage, Functions and App Engine. This feature is in beta. For more information, see Introduction to Google Cloud Platform integrations.

Cloud integrations

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New

Google Cloud Load Balancing integration is now available. New Relic collects metrics for all types of load balancers, and provides a curated dashboard with successful requests, error percentages, throughput, and latency. Check Google Cloud Load Balancing monitoring integration for details.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub integration is now available. New Relic collects metrics and inventory data for Pub/Sub Topics and Subscriptions. Check Google Cloud Pub/Sub monitoring integration for details.
Google Cloud Spanner integration is now available. New Relic’s curated dashboard shows relevant metrics for Spanner instances and databases, such as request latency, disk, CPU, successful requests count and error rate. Check Google Cloud Spanner monitoring integration for details.
Google Cloud SQL is now available. The most relevant metrics to watch are CPU, memory and disk utilization, to make sure the databases are correctly dimensioned. The curated dashboard also features write and read operations per second, concurrent connections and database state. Check Google Cloud SQL monitoring integration for details.
Google BigQuery is now available. Our curated dashboard helps keep track of query execution time, the number of bytes stored in the datasets, and the number of bytes uploaded to any table in the dataset that were billed. Check Google BigQuery monitoring integration for details.

Cloud integrations

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New

The following integrations are now stable (v1.0):
New metrics will be gathered for all Amazon ElastiCache clusters and nodes:
- cpuCreditUsage
- cpuCreditBalance
- databaseMemoryUsagePercentage
New metrics will be gathered for Amazon ElastiCache Redis nodes:
- cacheHitRate
- db0AverageTtl
- masterLinkHealthStatus
- memoryFragmentationRatio
- evalBasedCmds
- evalBasedCmdsLatency
- geoSpatialBasedCmds
- geoSpatialBasedCmdsLatency
- getTypeCmdsLatency
- hashBasedCmdsLatency
- hyperLogLogBasedCmdsLatency
- keyBasedCmdsLatency
- listBasedCmdsLatency
- pubSubBasedCmds
- pubSubBasedCmdsLatency
- setBasedCmdsLatency
- setTypeCmdsLatency
- sortedBasedCmdsLatency
- stringBasedCmdsLatency
- streamBasedCmdsLatency

Cloud integrations

Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New

In order to optimize the volume of calls to AWS APIs, the cloud integrations setting options have been enhanced. In particular:
- New Relic will be using the same polling interval for metrics and inventory data from now on.
- Many options for you to control the amount of inventory data that New Relic collects from your cloud account have been added: tags, extended inventory, regions, entity name prefixes, resource groups, etc. Please find which attributes are fetched by enabling extended inventory in the specific document for each cloud integration.
You can enable or disable the collection of extended inventory attributes through New Relic's user interface for AWS DynamoDB, AWS ElastiCache and Google Cloud BigQuery.
The AWS Lambda integration has been extended with additional metrics and inventory attributes:
- The ServerlessSample event type now includes deadLetterErrors and iteratorAge metrics, both for functions and function aliases. Additionally, it includes the concurrentExecutions metric for functions that have a custom concurrency limit specified.
- For functions, inventory (under aws/lambda/function/) now includes the kmsKeyArn, masterArn, revisionId and layers attributes.
- For function aliases, inventory (under aws/lambda/alias/) now includes the revisionId and routingConfig attributes.
- For mappings between an AWS resource and a function, inventory (under aws/lambda/event-source-mapping/) now includes the stateTransitionReason attribute.

Bug fixes

Google BigQuery tables with no schema were lacking some inventory attributes.

Cloud integrations

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Update

We've released an update to the AWS CloudFormation template for our Metric Streams integration. This update resolves a critical issue that could prevent the stack from being updated and use modern AWS Lambda python runtimes.
To apply the fix to your existing integration, please follow the steps below to update your CloudFormation stack:
1. Navigate to CloudFormation: Log in to your AWS Management Console and go to the CloudFormation service.
2. Select Your Stack: Find and select your New Relic Metric Streams stack (it's often named NewRelic-Metric-Streams-*), then click Update Stack dropdown. From the options, select Make a direct update. For more information, see the AWS documentation on directly updating stacks.
3. Replace Template: On the update screen, you must select Replace current template.
  
  NOTE: Do not use the "Use existing template" option, as it will not apply the necessary fixes.
4. Provide the New Template URL: Under the Specify template section, choose the Amazon S3 URL option and paste the following link:
  
  https://nr-downloads-main.s3.amazonaws.com/cloud_integrations/aws/cloudformation/newrelic-cloudformation-mstreams.yml
5. Confirm and Update: Click Next through the parameter and stack options pages. On the final review page, scroll to the bottom, check the box to acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources, and click Update stack.
You can monitor the progress in the Events tab. The update is complete when the stack status changes to UPDATE_COMPLETE.

Cloud integrations

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Update

A new setting Keep legacy metadata has been added in the AWS EC2 polling integration, disabled by default for new integrations.
When disabled, legacy attribute formats for EC2 metadata and custom tags will no longer be used. This helps reduce the data ingest quota when those legacy attribute formats are not used in custom dashboards or alert conditions.

Cloud integrations

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Update

The AWS ECS integration has been updated with additional metrics for container instances.
See all available ECS metrics in the AWS documentation.

Cloud integrations

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New

The AWS Elasticsearch integration has been updated with new metrics for clusters.
- You can now monitor the total number of requests to the cluster and the response codes; rates and latency for indexing and search requests; queued tasks in different thread pools, and errors related to encryption keys. Most of these new metrics are useful to decide whether a cluster needs to be scaled up.
- Additionally, you can enable the collection of some of these metrics at the node level.
The regionName attribute has been added to the New Relic Insights events collected by the Azure SQL Database integration: AzureSqlDatabaseSample and AzureSqlElasticPoolSample.
- This attribute can be used for grouping and filtering down results in NRQL queries, dashboards and alert conditions.

Cloud integrations

Wed, 23 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

New

The AWS Health integration events are now stored as New Relic events (previously they were inventory data only).
They can now be easily queried, added to dashboards, and included in alert conditions.

Cloud integrations

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New

Added support for AWS Network Load Balancers (NLBs)
Added two Entity Types to New Relic: ELB network load balancer, ELB network target group
Added more metrics for AWS Application Load Balancers see the documentation for the full list.

Changes

Moved ALB and NLB integrations under the ELB section to align with AWS
Renamed ELB integration to ELB (Classic)

Minor changes

AWS RDS: All charts in the dashboard now FACETed by database name
GCP: You can now see the amount of SDK API calls we make in the GCP Status Dashboard

Cloud integrations

Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Update

It's now possible to update the Azure application's name and authentication credentials using the infrastructure UI or the cloud integrations API at any time. Learn how to update application details and rotate client secrets.

Cloud integrations

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Update

A new setting Enable table metrics has been added in the Google BigQuery monitoring integration, disabled by default for new integrations.
It will be kept enabled for integrations that had the BigQuery integration enabled before the change.
When disabled BigQuery table entities and their metrics will not be collected.

Cloud integrations

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Update

All polling integrations for AWS, Azure, and GCP have been optimized to ensure metrics for existing entities are not impacted when large amount of resources are detected from new or existing provider accounts in a short-period of time. Metrics for new resources will be processed according to New Relic system limits, and may not be ingested until the associated entity is registered.
AWS CloudWatch metric streams integration has been optimized to ensure resource metrics are always ingested as soon as received. When large amount of new resources are detected in a short-period of time, the associated entity and metadata will be available as soon as the entity is registered.

Cloud integrations

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

New

Some of our AWS integrations now use the AWS Resource Tagging API (RTA) for fetching AWS tags. This reduces the requests related to fetching tags by approximately 90% for selected AWS integrations, and reduces throttling considerably.

This feature requires new permissions: We sent a communication with instructions to all customers without the required permissions for the following integrations: ALB, CloudFront, DynamoDB, ECS, EFS, Elastic BeanStalk, ElastiCache, ElasticSearch, ELB, Kinesis Streams, Lambda, RDS, Route53, SQS and S3.

The new permissions can be enabled till August 5th 2020. If you have questions or doubts about this change, reach out the New Relic account team.
Azure AppService Integration: WebApp slots are now supported.
AWS DocumentDB Integration: support for tags.
The following integrations have been launched as beta:
- [Beta] GCP Cloud Run
- [Beta] GCP Firebase Hosting
- [Beta] GCP Firebase Database
- [Beta] GCP Firebase Storage
- [Beta] GCP Firestore
- [Beta] AWS Transit Gateway