Introduction

A New Relic agent to collect status information from phusion passenger via the xml output of the passenger-status command

NOTE!!! Currently supports Passenger 5, parsing may not work correctly with passenger 3 outputs but should still work with Passenger 4

Passenger Agent Installation

1. Download the latest version
2. Extract to the location you want to run the agent from
3. bundle install to get the necessary gems
4. Copy config/template_newrelic_plugin.yml to config/newrelic_plugin.yml
5. Edit config/newrelic_plugin.yml and replace "YOUR_LICENSE_KEY_HERE" with your New Relic license key
6. Edit config/newrelic_plugin.yml and add the full path to your 'passenger-status --show=xml' command if needed, as well as the hostname (as you want it to appear in NewRelic)
7. Run ./newrelic_passenger_agent

Data Collected

Data for this agent is collected by running the commands 'passenger-status --show=xml' then parsing the results

Data captured for => passenger-status --show=xml

• no. of processes running (max and current)
• no. waiting in global queue
• no. waiting in per-PID queue
• sessions active per-PID
• cpu usage per-PID
• memory usage per-PID
• uptime in seconds per-PID
• last-processed time per-PID

Other Sources

This agent originally based on the passenger agent by tamaloa https://github.com/tamaloa/newrelic_passenger_plugin