Hi - this project looks super interesting, in particular for the Prometheus exporter integration.

In the project README, it says, "New Relic has open-sourced this integration to enable monitoring of various technologies.". However, I don't see the sources or the build toolchain for nri-flex. Are these available, or will they be made available?

Thanks!

Hi,

I've got flex set up scaping a bunch of Prometheus metrics endpoints.

I'm struggling to set up dashboards in Insights based on the data from flex.

I would be interested to see some example dashboards for common Prometheus metric types.

In particular, would like to see example NRQL for histograms and summaries as these are the ones I am struggling with the most.

Thanks

I'm attempting to use this integration with newrelic/infrastructure-k8s:1.9.0.

This is my container discovery config file:

---
name: clusterautoscalermetrics
apis:
  - name: clusterautoscalermetrics
    url: http://${auto:host}:${auto:port}/metrics
    prometheus:
      enable: true

According to the docs on Kubernetes I should add an environment variable to my deployment so that the integration can find the container. I've added the following

flexDiscovery: t=cluster-autoscaler,c=clusterautoscaler,tt=img,tm=contains

When I run from the container (on the same host as my cluster-autoscaler container) ./nri-flex -container_discovery -docker_api_version 1.38 -container_discovery_dir flexContainerDiscovery/ -verbose -config_file flexContainerDiscovery/clusterautoscaler.yml I get the following error:

/var/db/newrelic-infra/custom-integrations # ./nri-flex -container_discovery -docker_api_version 1.38 -container_discovery_dir flexContainerDiscovery/ -verbose -config_file flexContainerDiscovery/clusterautoscaler.yml
DEBU[0000] com.newrelic.nri-flex: v0.6.0-pre linux:amd64
DEBU[0000] starting to process 1 configs
DEBU[0000] running config: clusterautoscalermetrics
DEBU[0000] processing 1 apis in clusterautoscalermetrics
DEBU[0000] fetching data for clusterautoscalermetrics
DEBU[0000] clusterautoscalermetrics - running http requests
DEBU[0000] sending GET request to http://${auto:host}:${auto:port}/metrics
DEBU[0000] parse http://${auto:host}:${auto:port}/metrics: invalid character "{" in host name
DEBU[0000] running data handler for clusterautoscalermetrics
DEBU[0000] finished processing 1 apis in clusterautoscalermetrics
DEBU[0000] completed processing 1 configs
{"name":"com.newrelic.nri-flex","protocol_version":"2","integration_version":"0.6.0-pre","data":[{"metrics":[{"event_type":"flexStatusSample","flex.ConfigsProcessed":1,"flex.EventCount":0,"flex.EventDropCount":0}],"inventory":{},"events":[]}]}

DEBU[0000] sending GET request to http://${auto:host}:${auto:port}/metrics is what stands out to me as the issue.

This is awesome. I just got it working to ship CircleCI events and it took about 15 minutes to implement.

I was wondering what your thoughts on key management were. i.e. the containerized version of this is great but, right now you have to bake in any keys in the config files.

You could write an entrypoint script that uses sed to replace these from environment variables but, I was wondering if you had any ideas or if anyone else has asked for this. I am happy to contribute if you post the source.