Grafana NewRelic DataSource

Grafana DataSource Plugin to connect with NewRelic APM.

Note: This is not official plugin from Grafana / NewRelic. For full support use official plugin from Grafana

Configuration

After installing New Relic plugin, go to Datasources in the menu, click on the Add datasource button and then choose New Relic from Type dropdown and fill in a name for the data source (for example My New Relic Account).

Specify your Insights API key (Insights -> Manage Data -> API keys -> Query Keys) and Accounty ID (get it from page URL: https://insights.newrelic.com/accounts/<your_account_id>/manage/api_keys or from query example on the API keys page).

Query Editor

Query Editor has the following settings.

Service Type : Insights API

Query : Query in NRQL format.

Result Format : Timeseries / Table

When choosing Timeseries Result format, your query will be updated with the following.

• SINCE ${options.range.from} UNTIL ${options.range.to} will be appended to your query , if you dont have SINCE / UNTIL keyword in your query. This means, you dont need to specify any time filter in queries if you want to use the Grafana's timefilter. Still if you need to hardcode any time filter, you can still use SINCE / UNTIL in your queries.

• TIMESERIES AUTO will be appended to your query, if you dont have TIMESERIES keyword in your query. This means, you dont need to specify TIMESERIES keyword in your query unless you want specific timeseries granularity.

When choosing Table Result format, your query will be updated with the following.

• SINCE ${options.range.from} UNTIL ${options.range.to} will be appended to your query , if you dont have SINCE / UNTIL keyword in your query. This means, you dont need to specify any time filter in queries if you want to use the Grafana's timefilter. Still if you need to hardcode any time filter, you can still use SINCE / UNTIL in your queries.

NOTE: If your query returns uniqueCount, make sure you are using "Table format" instead "Timeseries" to get accurate results.

Metric Find Query / Variable Query

Use the one of the following queries in the Query field in the Variable edit view.

Name	Description
Insights(query)	Returns results for the query .

Examples:

• Gets distinct list of app names: Insights(SELECT uniques(appName) FROM Mobile)

Known Issues

• This is not official plugin from Grafana / NewRelic. For full support use official plugin from Grafana

• NewRelic API does have overload protection. If that happens, you’ll see an error 429 (“Too Many Requests”) in the API response. Read more details here

• Differnet format of insights query results were tested. But still there can be formats unhandled. If you see such unhandled result format, Create a bug here and so we can fixt its.

Screnshots

Advance usecases - Funnel

NewRelic funnel can be represented in grafana as table or funnel like visualization using panels such as grafana vue html panel

Below example shows the query behind the funnel and its setup using vue html panel.

in NewRelic

in Grafana

NRQL

SELECT funnel(
    session, 
    where requestUrl like '%/api_commerce/bag/v%/%/checkout' as 'Enter Checkout', 
    where requestUrl like '%/api_finance/paymentoptions/v%/paymentmethods%' as 'Payment', 
    where requestUrl like '%/api_commerce/order/v%/orders/createorder%' and httpResponseCode >= 200 and httpResponseCode < 300 as 'Orders' 
)  
FROM AjaxRequest where appId = '111111'

VUE HTML

<table style="width:100%">
  <tr v-for="(row,index) in dataset[0].rows" v-bind:key="index" style="padding:20px;">
    <td style="padding:10px;">{{row.session}}</td>
    <td style="padding:10px 0px;"> {{row.value}}</td>
    <td style="width:50%;padding:10px 0px;text-align:center;">
      <div style="width:100%;background:red;">
        <div  v-bind:style="{ 'width': (Math.round(row.value / dataset[0].rows[0].value * 100)+'%') ,  'background': 'green'}">&nbsp;</div>
      </div>
    </td>
    <td style="padding:10px 0px;text-align:center;">{{ Math.round(row.value / dataset[0].rows[0].value * 100) }}%</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Advance Usecases - Synthetic user journey

Synthetic user journey / healthecheck can be replicated in grafana using Discrete panel plugin as shown below

NRQL Query

SELECT ( filter(count(*),WHERE result = 'SUCCESS') / filter(count(*), WHERE result IN ('SUCCESS','FAILED')) * 100 ) as 'Success Rate' FROM SyntheticCheck WHERE monitorName like 'App Support%Checkout Journey' FACET monitorName TIMESERIES 10 minutes

Output in discrete panel

You can also represent the above output with regular graph panel . Example shown below

Develop Build Run

docker run --rm -it -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd)"/grafana-plugins:/var/lib/grafana/plugins --name=grafana grafana/grafana:7.5.12

yarn install
yarn build

# might need to restart docker container after rebuilding