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by mattkirman 4749 days ago
Not had much luck with the two plugins I've tried to install so far:

1. The Nginx plugin has a broken init.d script. Not the end of the world, but hardly a plug and play solution.

2. The Varnish plugin download is behind a self-signed SSL certificate (which is for a different domain no less). Furthermore the Gems it requires are loaded from a GitHub repository that is no longer available to the public. There simply doesn't seem to be a way to get this plugin installed.

The install process and software requirements for the plugins also appear to be wildly different. It would be incredible if New Relic provided the ability to install plugins over the command line from a central repository - something as basic as `newrelic install $plugin_name` would be ideal.

I really hope that these issues are worked out as I think this platform has real potential. It's just unfortunate that the quality of the plugins appears to be far from production ready.
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silentdragon 4749 days ago
I just got around to installing both of those plugins. I hacked up their provided init script to work with Debian standards. You can see the issue on github: https://github.com/MeetMe/newrelic-plugin-agent/issues/7

As for the varnish plugin I had to edit the gemfile to have

  gem "newrelic_plugin", :git => "git://github.com/newrelic-platform/newrelic_plugin.git", :tag => 'release/0.2.11'
It would be fantastic if it eventually got as simple as their PHP plugin or regular monitoring is to install.
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coopr 4749 days ago
I agree - we (New Relic) have left the install process up to the plugin authors. Hence, plugin installation effort varies widely ; )

In the future you are likely to see some improved installation options, however because you can truly monitor _anything_ with New Relic plugins (at least, for now, anything that emits or can be made to emit time-series numerical data) it is unrealistic to expect that there will be only one, consistent install experience for everything.

In other words, installing the plugin agent to monitor your MongoDB will probably always be different from installing the plugin agent to monitor your John Deere tractor.

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