New Relic¶

By enabling this toolset, HolmesGPT will be able to fetch logs and traces from New Relic. This allows Holmes to access your application performance data and logs stored in New Relic for investigation purposes.

Disable Default Logging Toolset

The default HolmesGPT logging tool must be disabled if you use a different datasource for logs. HolmesGPT may still use kubectl to fetch logs and never call your datasource if kubernetes/logs is not disabled.

HolmesGPT provides several out-of-the-box alternatives for log access. You can select from these options:

kubernetes/logs: Access logs directly through Kubernetes. This is the default toolset.
coralogix/logs: Access logs through Coralogix.
grafana/loki: Access Loki logs by proxying through a Grafana instance.
opensearch/logs: Access logs through OpenSearch.
datadog: Access logs through DataDog.

Prerequisites¶

A New Relic User API Key
Your New Relic Account ID

You can find these in your New Relic account under Administration > API keys and Account settings.

Configuration¶

Holmes CLIRobusta Helm Chart

First, set the following environment variables:

export NEW_RELIC_USER_KEY="<your New Relic User API key>"
export NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID="<your New Relic account ID>"

Then add the following to ~/.holmes/config.yaml, creating the file if it doesn't exist:

toolsets:
  newrelic/apm:
    enabled: true
    config:
      region: "US"  # or "EU" for EU region

  kubernetes/logs:
    enabled: false  # Disable default Kubernetes logging if using New Relic for logs

holmes:
  additionalEnvVars:
    - name: NEW_RELIC_USER_KEY
      value: "<your New Relic User API key>"
    - name: NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID
      value: "<your New Relic account ID>"
  toolsets:
    newrelic/apm:
      enabled: true
      config:
        region: "US"  # or "EU" for EU region

    kubernetes/logs:
      enabled: false  # Disable default Kubernetes logging if using New Relic for logs

Advanced Configuration¶

You can customize the New Relic region and other parameters:

toolsets:
  newrelic/apm:
    enabled: true
    config:
      region: "US"  # Options: "US" or "EU"
      timeout: 30  # Request timeout in seconds
      max_results: 1000  # Maximum number of results to fetch

Capabilities¶

Tool Name	Description
newrelic_fetch_logs	Fetch logs from New Relic for specified time ranges and filters
newrelic_fetch_traces	Fetch distributed traces from New Relic APM
newrelic_query_nrql	Execute NRQL queries against New Relic data
newrelic_get_app_performance	Get application performance metrics