Add-ons

New Relic

New Relic is a better way to monitor and boost performance for your entire web app environment. It’s all-in-one web application performance tool lets you see performance from the end user experience, through servers, and down to the line of application code.

Important note: New Relic are no longer providing partner accounts, so New Relic accounts must now be created directly with New Relic. This Add-on remains active in order to provide a simple method of integration for New Relic into Engine Yard environments. Please see the Instructions for further details.

Instructions for Ruby
These instructions assume you are using Bundler and Rails.



Skip to step 5 if New Relic is already activated for your account in general.

1. Create a New Relic account

2. Retrieve the New Relic config variables

  • From the New Relic dashboard record the Account ID, License Key and API Key.

3. Enable the New Relic Add-on

  • If not already done so, click Set It Up.

4. Enter the New Relic vars

  • In the vars boxes enter the NR variables and click Update Vars.

5. Activate New Relic on the Environment

  • Select the appropriate environment on the Set it up page and click Activate.

6. Modify your Gemfile

  • Add the following lines to your Gemfile:
 gem 'newrelic_rpm'
 gem 'ey_config'

7. Add the Engine Yard newrelic.yml to your application’s repository

  • Download the Engine Yard version of newrelic.yml by clicking here.
  • Place it in the config subdirectory of your application.
  • Deploy your application.

* Be sure to push all changes to your Git repository host (e.g. Github).

It might take a couple of minutes for your app to show up in the New Relic dashboard
Skip to step 5 if New Relic is already activated for your account in general.

1. Create a New Relic account

2. Retrieve the New Relic config variables

  • From the New Relic dashboard record the Account ID, License Key and API Key.

3. Enable the New Relic Add-on

  • If not already done so, click Set It Up.

4. Enter the New Relic vars

  • In the vars boxes enter the NR variables and click Update Vars.

5. Activate New Relic on the Environment

  • Select the appropriate environment on the Set it up page and click Activate.

6. Apply changes to your application

  • Navigate to your Environment page and click “Apply” for the changes to take effect. A direct link is provided below.

7. Setup confirmation

  • Scroll to the bottom of the Environment page to confirm that New Relic is listed as an add-on. If so, you are all set.

Please log in if you would like to set up the service.