New Relic Infrastructure Integration for HAProxy

Reports status and metrics for HAProxy service

Requirements

HAProxy instance with the statistics page enabled and activated.

Installation

Download an archive file for the HAProxy Integration
Extract haproxy-definition.yml and the bin directory into /var/db/newrelic-infra/newrelic-integrations
Add execute permissions for the binary file nr-haproxy (if required)
Extract haproxy-config.yml.sample into /etc/newrelic-infra/integrations.d

Usage

To run the HAProxy integration, you must have the agent installed (see agent installation).

To use the HAProxy integration, first rename haproxy-config.yml.sample to haproxy-config.yml, then configure the integration by editing the fields in the file.

You can view your data in Insights by creating your own NRQL queries. To do so, use the HAProxyFrontendSample, HAProxyBackendSample, HAProxyListenerSample, and HAProxyServerSample event types.

Compatibility

Supported OS: No limitations
Supported versions: HAProxy 1.3 - 1.8

Integration Development usage

Assuming you have the source code, you can build and run the HAProxy integration locally

Go to the directory of the HAProxy Integration and build it

$ make

The command above will execute tests for the HAProxy integration and build an executable file called nr-haproxy in the bin directory

$ ./bin/nr-haproxy --help