Paketo Buildpack for New Relic

Buildpack ID: paketo-buildpacks/new-relic

Registry URLs: docker.io/paketobuildpacks/new-relic

The Paketo Buildpack for New Relic is a Cloud Native Buildpack that contributes the New Relic Agent and configures it to connect to the service.

Behavior

This buildpack will participate if all the following conditions are met

• A binding exists with type of NewRelic

The buildpack will do the following for Java applications:

• Contributes a Java agent to a layer and configures $JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS to use it
  • Contributes a default newrelic.yml
• Contribute extensions if available
• Transforms the contents of the binding secret to environment variables with the pattern NEW_RELIC_<KEY>=<VALUE>

The buildpack will do the following for PHP applications:

• Contributes a PHP agent to a layer and configures $PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR to use it
• Transforms the contents of the binding secret to environment variables with the pattern NEW_RELIC_<KEY>=<VALUE>

The buildpack will do the following for Python applications:

• Copies configuration file in ${buildpack}/resources/newrelic.ini to the root folder of your application.
• You may override this file by including a newrelic.ini file at the root of your application.
• You will need to install the New Relic Python Agent, you can do this by adding New Relic as requirement in requirements.txt at the root of your application.

The buildpack will do the following for Dotnet (.NET) Core applications:

• Contributes a Dotnet agent to a layer and configures $CORECLR_NEWRELIC_HOME & $CORECLR_PROFILER_PATH to use it
• You can override the default global newrelic.config file with an app-local file containing custom configuration. See the new-relic docs for config precedence information.
• Transforms the contents of the binding secret to environment variables with the pattern NEW_RELIC_<KEY>=<VALUE>

Configuration

Environment Variable	Description
$BP_NEW_RELIC_EXT_SHA256	Configure the SHA256 hash of the New Relic extensions archive
$BP_NEW_RELIC_EXT_STRIP	Configure the number of directory components to strip from the New Relic extensions archive. Defaults to 0.
$BP_NEW_RELIC_EXT_URI	Configure the download location of the New Relic extensions
$BP_NEW_RELIC_EXT_VERSION	Configure the version of the New Relic extensions

Bindings

The buildpack optionally accepts the following bindings:

Type: dependency-mapping

Key	Value	Description
<dependency-digest>	<uri>	If needed, the buildpack will fetch the dependency with digest <dependency-digest> from <uri>

License

This buildpack is released under version 2.0 of the Apache License.