Application monitoring with New Relic

New Relic is an application performance monitoring tool (amongst other things).

To use with ArchivesSpace you must:

• Signup for an account at newrelic (there is a free tier and paid plans)
• Edit config.rb to:
  • activate the newrelic plugin
  • add the New Relic license key
  • add an application name to identify the ArchivesSpace instance in the New Relic dashboard

For example, in config.rb:

## You may have other plugins
AppConfig[:plugins] = ['local', 'newrelic']

AppConfig[:newrelic_key] = "enteryourkeyhere"
AppConfig[:newrelic_app_name] = "ArchivesSpace"

• Install the New Relic agent library by initializing the plugin:

    ## For Linux/OSX
     $ scripts/initialize-plugin.sh newrelic
  
     ## For Windows
     % scripts\initialize-plugin.bat newrelic
  

• Start, or restart ArchivesSpace to pick up the configuration.

Within a few minutes the application should be visible in the New Relic dashboard with data being collected.

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