Upgrade Nginx Redis Insight Guide Newrelic + PHP Agent Install

This is a quick install guide for Newrelic agent + PHP Agent below. You'd need to read the documentation and find your Newrelic license key for the below steps.

• Using the newrelic-install script | New Relic Documentation
• Silent mode for the install script (advanced) | New Relic Documentation

Install Newrelic Agent + PHP-Agent

replace <your-key-goes-here> with your newrelic license key

Code (Text):

rpm -Uvh http://yum.newrelic.com/pub/newrelic/el5/x86_64/newrelic-repo-5-3.noarch.rpm
yum install newrelic-sysmond newrelic-php5
nrsysmond-config --set license_key=<your-key-goes-here>
/etc/init.d/newrelic-sysmond start
chkconfig newrelic-sysmond on
chkconfig newrelic-daemon on
newrelic-install install

Output for newrelic-install install command

Code (Text):

New Relic PHP Agent Installation (interactive mode)
===================================================

   Enter New Relic license key (or leave blank): LICENSENUMBER

Below is a list of the directories in which we found a copy of PHP.
Please select the directory or directories for which you wish to install
New Relic. You can select either a single directory or
multiple directories by separating each choice with either a space or a
comma. To select all of the directories shown, please enter the special
keyword 'all' (without the quotes).

   1)   /usr/local/bin
   2)   /usr/local/bin

   0)   Exit

   Selection (1-2, 0 to exit or all): 1

Found a valid PHP in : /usr/local/bin
         PHP Version : 7.0.18
  Module API version : 20151012
    Module directory : /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20151012
  Zend Thread Safety : no
   CLI ini directory : /etc/centminmod/php.d
      Install Status : OK

New Relic is now installed on your system. Congratulations!

1. Set newrelic.appname in your newrelic.ini file.

2. Restart your web server. This will fix most reporting issues and
   load the agent's new features and bug fixes.

If you have questions or comments, go to http://support.newrelic.com.

Configure Newrelic PHP Agent

Create the php newrelic.ini settings file at /etc/centminmod/php.d/newrelic.ini

replace <your-key-goes-here> with your newrelic license key

Code (Text):

echo 'newrelic.license="<your-key-goes-here>\"' > /etc/centminmod/php.d/newrelic.ini
echo "newrelic.appname=\"$(hostname) PHP Application\"" >> /etc/centminmod/php.d/newrelic.ini
echo 'extension="newrelic.so"' >> /etc/centminmod/php.d/newrelic.ini

contents of newrelic.ini would be like

Code (Text):

newrelic.license="<your-key-goes-here>"
newrelic.appname="host.domain.com PHP Application"
extension="newrelic.so"

restart php-fpm service

Code (Text):

fpmrestart

check that newrelic.ini is loaded and detected by php

Code (Text):

php --ini

Code (Text):

php --ini
Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /usr/local/lib
Loaded Configuration File:         /usr/local/lib/php.ini
Scan for additional .ini files in: /etc/centminmod/php.d
Additional .ini files parsed:      /etc/centminmod/php.d/a_customphp.ini,
/etc/centminmod/php.d/curlcainfo.ini,
/etc/centminmod/php.d/geoip.ini,
/etc/centminmod/php.d/igbinary.ini,
/etc/centminmod/php.d/imagick.ini,
/etc/centminmod/php.d/mailparse.ini,
/etc/centminmod/php.d/memcache.ini,
/etc/centminmod/php.d/memcached.ini,
/etc/centminmod/php.d/newrelic.ini,
/etc/centminmod/php.d/redis.ini,
/etc/centminmod/php.d/zendopcache.ini

Check newrelic module specifically, this is same as loading phpinfo file and looking for newrelic module section.

Code (Text):

php --ri newrelic

Code (Text):

php --ri newrelic

newrelic

New Relic RPM Monitoring => enabled
New Relic Version => 7.1.0.187 ("roth" - "680e6fc1646b")

                            Global Directives                       
Directive Name => Global Value
newrelic.daemon.app_timeout => no value
newrelic.daemon.auditlog => no value
newrelic.daemon.collector_host => collector.newrelic.com
newrelic.daemon.dont_launch => no value
newrelic.daemon.location => /usr/bin/newrelic-daemon
newrelic.daemon.logfile => no value
newrelic.daemon.loglevel => no value
newrelic.daemon.pidfile => no value
newrelic.daemon.port => /tmp/.newrelic.sock
newrelic.daemon.proxy => no value
newrelic.daemon.ssl => enabled
newrelic.daemon.ssl_ca_bundle => no value
newrelic.daemon.ssl_ca_path => no value
newrelic.daemon.utilization.detect_aws => enabled
newrelic.daemon.utilization.detect_docker => enabled
newrelic.feature_flag => no value
newrelic.high_security => 0
newrelic.logfile => /var/log/newrelic/php_agent.log
newrelic.loglevel => info

                         Per-Directory Directives                   
Directive Name => Local/Active Value => Master/Default Value
newrelic.analytics_events.capture_attributes => enabled => enabled
newrelic.analytics_events.enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.appname => host.domain.com PHP Application => host.domain.com PHP Application
newrelic.attributes.enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.attributes.exclude => no value => no value
newrelic.attributes.include => no value => no value
newrelic.browser_monitoring.attributes.enabled => disabled => disabled
newrelic.browser_monitoring.attributes.exclude => no value => no value
newrelic.browser_monitoring.attributes.include => no value => no value
newrelic.browser_monitoring.auto_instrument => enabled => enabled
newrelic.browser_monitoring.capture_attributes => disabled => disabled
newrelic.browser_monitoring.debug => disabled => disabled
newrelic.browser_monitoring.loader => rum => rum
newrelic.capture_params => off => off
newrelic.cross_application_tracer.enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.custom_insights_events.enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.datastore_tracer.database_name_reporting.enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.datastore_tracer.instance_reporting.enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.enabled => yes => yes
newrelic.error_collector.attributes.enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.error_collector.attributes.exclude => no value => no value
newrelic.error_collector.attributes.include => no value => no value
newrelic.error_collector.capture_attributes => enabled => enabled
newrelic.error_collector.capture_events => enabled => enabled
newrelic.error_collector.enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.error_collector.ignore_errors => no value => no value
newrelic.error_collector.ignore_exceptions => no value => no value
newrelic.error_collector.ignore_user_exception_handler => no => no
newrelic.error_collector.prioritize_api_errors => no => no
newrelic.error_collector.record_database_errors => yes => yes
newrelic.framework => auto-detect => auto-detect
newrelic.framework.drupal.modules => on => on
newrelic.framework.wordpress.hooks => on => on
newrelic.guzzle.enabled => 1 => 1
newrelic.ignored_params => no value => no value
newrelic.labels => no value => no value
newrelic.license => d4...89 => d4...89
newrelic.phpunit_events.enabled => disabled => disabled
newrelic.process_host.display_name => no value => no value
newrelic.special.max_nesting_level => -1 => -1
newrelic.synthetics.enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.transaction_events.attributes.enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.transaction_events.attributes.exclude => no value => no value
newrelic.transaction_events.attributes.include => no value => no value
newrelic.transaction_events.enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.transaction_tracer.attributes.enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.transaction_tracer.attributes.exclude => no value => no value
newrelic.transaction_tracer.attributes.include => no value => no value
newrelic.transaction_tracer.capture_attributes => enabled => enabled
newrelic.transaction_tracer.custom => no value => no value
newrelic.transaction_tracer.detail => 1 => 1
newrelic.transaction_tracer.enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.transaction_tracer.explain_enabled => enabled => enabled
newrelic.transaction_tracer.explain_threshold => 500 => 500
newrelic.transaction_tracer.gather_input_queries => 1 => 1
newrelic.transaction_tracer.record_sql => obfuscated => obfuscated
newrelic.transaction_tracer.slow_sql => enabled => enabled
newrelic.transaction_tracer.stack_trace_threshold => 500 => 500
newrelic.transaction_tracer.threshold => apdex_f => apdex_f
newrelic.webtransaction.name.files => no value => no value
newrelic.webtransaction.name.functions => no value => no value
newrelic.webtransaction.name.remove_trailing_path => no => no

Updating Newrelic PHP Agent

As per Upgrading the PHP agent | New Relic Documentation

Code (Text):

yum update newrelic-php5
newrelic-install install
fpmrestart

If you want to silently run newrelic-install install command

Code (Text):

yum update newrelic-php5
export NR_INSTALL_KEY="<your-key-goes-here>"
export NR_INSTALL_SILENT=true
newrelic-install install
fpmrestart

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