NewRelic OpenWrt Plugin

Monitor your OpenWrt installation with a simple shell script

Prerequisites

• A New Relic account. Signup for a free account at http://newrelic.com

• A server running Memcached v1.4 or greater. Download the latest version of Memcached for free here.

• cURL package

  To install cURL:

  ipkg update
  ipkg install curl
  

Running the Agent

1. Copy the newrelic.sh file to a directory of your choice

2. At the top of the newrelic.sh script, fill in:

   • Router hostname
   • Router name*
   • Your New Relic license key

   *Name is the value that will be displayed in the New Relic UI.

      #!/bin/ash
      licensekey="insert your license key"
      host="insert router hostname"
      name="insert router name"
   

3. Make the file executable: chmod +x ./newrelic.sh

4. Create a cron job that executes the script every minute: */1 * * * * /<directory>/newrelic.sh

After a few minutes, you should see a new menu called OpenWrt in your NewRelic web-console

Source

The project's source code is hosted at:

https://github.com/zyclonite/newrelic-openwrt-plugin