Install NewRelic Server Monitoring Agent on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

NewRelic is a real-time monitoring tool that has a number of useful plugins. Here I am installing the server monitoring agent to keep track of my servers health.

NewRelic - Server Monitoring

To install the server monitoring agent, first add the repository…

echo deb http://apt.newrelic.com/debian/ newrelic non-free >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/newrelic.list
wget -O- https://download.newrelic.com/548C16BF.gpg | apt-key add -
apt-get update

…then install the monitoring agent….

apt-get install newrelic-sysmond

Configure and start server monitoring daemon…

nrsysmond-config --set license_key=<your_key_here>
/etc/init.d/newrelic-sysmond start

And here’s what the server monitoring overview page looks like.

NewRelic - Server Overview

Related Documents

newrelic.com: New Relic Servers for Linux

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