newrelic-neo4j

Neo4j performance monitor plugin for Newrelic

Description

The plugin monitors various metrics of your Neo4J database like hits, transactions, storage and cache.

Requirements

• Neo4j Enterprise (Community edition also works but only reports database size)
• NodeJS 4+

Installation

NodeJS

There are a number of ways to install node. Please look into NVM or N for a simple process

newrelic-neo4j

After installing Nodejs you run npm i -g newrelic-neo4j and it will install the plugin

Configuration

Please make sure that metrics options are turned on in Neo4j:

// default setting for enabling all supported metrics
metrics.enabled=true

// default setting for enabling all Neo4j specific metrics
metrics.neo4j.enabled=true

// setting for exposing metrics about transactions; number of transactions started, committed, etc.
metrics.neo4j.tx.enabled=true

// setting for exposing metrics about the Neo4j page cache; page faults, evictions, flushes and exceptions, etc.
metrics.neo4j.pagecache.enabled=true

// setting for exposing metrics about approximately entities are in the database; nodes, relationships, properties, etc.
metrics.neo4j.counts.enabled=true

// setting for exposing metrics about the network usage of the HA cluster component
metrics.neo4j.network.enabled=true

More info about Neo4j metrics here

When installing, the plugin will attempt to copy a config file to /etc/newrelic/newrelic-neo4j.js. You can also use --print-config to print the current config file. In the file you will find:

module.exports = {
    pid: "/var/run/newrelic-neo4j.pid",
    log: "/var/log/newrelic-neo4j.log",

    // This is where you enter your license key
    license: "LICENSE KEY",

    // This is the name of the reporter
    name: "Database Name",

    // The database REST URL (usually http://domain.tld:7474 or https://domain.tld:7473)
    url: "Database URL",

    // OPTIONAL Set if the database requires an username and a password
    auth: {
        user: "neo4j",
        pass: "neo4j"
    },

    // Reporitng interval
    interval: 60
};

Usage

After installing and configuring you can simply run:

newrelic-neo4j

and it will attempt to read the config file from /etc/newrelic/newrelic-neo4j.js.

The options are:

    -h, --help      see those options
    -c, --config    set the config file location
    -o, --out       set location to output log file
    -p, --pid       set pid location (/var/run/newrelic-neo4j.pid)
    -f, --fork      forks the process into a daemon
    --stop          reads the pid and attempts to close the app
    --print-config  prints set config or default if none is provided

Support

For bugs and/or feature requests please refer to the Github page.

License

newrelic-neo4j plugin reporter is offered under MIT license. Please refer to this page for more info.