Send events to New Relic

Reports custom events to New Relic.

For prerequisites, see New Relic Ingest actions.

The action identifier is newrelic.ingest.sendEvents.

Reports a custom event to New Relic.

The following table describes all available input fields for this action.

Input	Type	Description	Example
attributes	Map	Optional. Common attributes included in all events when provided. Merges with each event item; event-level values override common attributes when conflicts occur.	`"{\"page\": \"1\", \"limit\": \"10\"}"`
events	List	Required. The list of event data. Importante Events require an `eventType` field that represents the custom event type. The maximum events allowed per request is 100.	`"[{\"eventType\":\"XYZ\",\"attributes\":{\"foo\":\"bar\"}}, {\"eventType\":\"ABC\",\"value\":\"1234\",\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"red\"}}]"`
licenseKey	String	Optional. The New Relic Account License Key specifies the target account for your events. If not provided, the system uses the default license key from the account executing the workflow. Read more about our API keys to create and manage your New Relic Account License Key.	`"{{ .secrets.secretName }}"`, where `secretName` is the key under which the license key is stored.
selectors	List	Optional. The selectors to get only the specified parameters as output.	`[{\"name\": \"success\", \"expression\": \".success\"}]`

The following table describes all output fields returned by this action.

Output	Type	Description
success	Boolean	`true` on success, `false` on failure.
errorMessage	String	Failure reason as message. `null` on success.

The following example sends multiple custom events with shared and per-event attributes, then retrieves them with a NRQL query.

Workflow example
name: heartbeat_newrelicIngestSendEvents workflowInputs: cellName: type: String steps: - name: runAction type: action action: newrelic.ingest.sendEvents version: 1 inputs: attributes: colour: red id: 1234 events: - eventType: HeartBeat test: "OK" attributes: foo: bar - eventType: HeartBeat1234 test: "OK1234" attributes: foo: bar - eventType: HeartBeat12345 test: "OK12345" attributes: foo: bar colour: yellow - eventType: HeartBeat12345678 test: "OK12345678" selectors: - name: success expression: ".success" Expected output: `{ "success": true }` Retrieve events: After successfully executing a workflow, you can retrieve the associated event by running a query under the account that executed the workflow: `SELECT * FROM HeartBeat`

Workflow example

name: heartbeat_newrelicIngestSendEvents

workflowInputs:
  cellName:
    type: String

steps:
  - name: runAction
    type: action
    action: newrelic.ingest.sendEvents
    version: 1
    inputs:
      attributes:
        colour: red
        id: 1234
      events:
        - eventType: HeartBeat
          test: "OK"
          attributes:
            foo: bar
        - eventType: HeartBeat1234
          test: "OK1234"
          attributes:
            foo: bar
        - eventType: HeartBeat12345
          test: "OK12345"
          attributes:
            foo: bar
            colour: yellow
        - eventType: HeartBeat12345678
          test: "OK12345678"
      selectors:
        - name: success
          expression: ".success"

Expected output:

{
    "success": true
  }

Retrieve events:

After successfully executing a workflow, you can retrieve the associated event by running a query under the account that executed the workflow:

SELECT * FROM HeartBeat

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