nrql-simple is a small Python library that provides a convenient way to interact with the New Relic Insights query API. You can interact with this library programmatically or via the Command Line.
nrql-simple is available on the Python Package Index (PyPI). You can install nrql-simple using pip.
virtualenv env source env/bin/activate pip install nrql-simple
To install the development version, run:
pip install https://github.com/AnthonyBloomer/nrql-simple/archive/master.zip
The New Relic Insights query API is a REST API for querying Insights event data. After you supply a standard NRQL query via HTTPS request, the query API returns a JSON response for parsing.
To use the API, you need a query key. You can have multiple query keys, and any query key can be used to initiate any Insights API query. If you have multiple systems querying Insights or different data destinations, New Relic recommends you use multiple query keys to enhance data security.
To create a new query key:
- Go to insights.newrelic.com > Manage data > API keys.
- Select the plus icon next to the Query keys heading.
- Enter a short description of the key.
- Select Save your notes.
You will also need make note of your New Relic Account ID. To find the account ID for your New Relic account:
- Sign in to rpm.newrelic.com.
- In the URL bar, copy the number after the /accounts/ portion of the
URL:
https://rpm.newrelic.com/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/
The first step is to initialize a NRQL object and set your API Key and Account ID.
from nrql.api import NRQL
nrql = NRQL()
nrql.api_key = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
nrql.account_id = 'YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID'
Alternatively, you can export your API key and Account ID as environment variables.
$ export NR_API_KEY='YOUR_API_KEY' $ export NR_ACCOUNT_ID='YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID'
Then simply pass your NRQL statement into the query
function. NRQL
is a query language similar to SQL that you use to make calls against
the New Relic Insights Events database. Refer to the NRQL
documentation
for examples and usage information.
Consider the following example that gets the unique number of container IDs for each application since this quarter.
req = nrql.query("select uniqueCount(containerId) from NrDailyUsage facet apmAppName since this quarter")
for k in req['facets']:
print("%s : %s" % (k['name'], k['results'][0]['uniqueCount']))
usage: nrql [-h] [--region REGION] [--env ENV] [--filename FILENAME] [--csv] [--verbose] stmt positional arguments: stmt The NRQL statement. optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --region REGION, --r REGION Pass this flag to set your region (EU or US) By default the region is set to US. --env ENV, --e ENV Environment handler. --filename FILENAME, --f FILENAME The output CSV filename. Default is events.csv --csv, --c Pass this flag to output the Event data to CSV. --verbose, --v Pass this flag if you want the whole response.
To use the CLI, you must first export your API key and Account ID as environment variables.
$ export NR_API_KEY='YOUR_API_KEY' $ export NR_ACCOUNT_ID='YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID'
Then, simply call the nrql
command with your NRQL statement as an
argument.
nrql "select uniqueCount(containerId) from nrdailyusage where apmAppName = 'SinatraApp' since this quarter"
The above command will output JSON formatted like this:
{
"results": [
{
"uniqueCount": 175
}
]
}
By default the output will not include the performanceStats
or
metadata
objects from the response. To output the entire JSON
response, pass the --verbose
flag.
nrql "select uniqueCount(containerId) from NrDailyUsage facet apmAppName since this quarter" --verbose
If you wish to easily switch between accounts, you can use the
environment
class method. If you are using the command line tool use
the env
command line argument. For example:
from nrql.api import NRQL
nrql = NRQL()
nrql.environment = "PROD"
Or via the command line:
nrql "select uniqueCount(containerId) from NrDailyUsage facet apmAppName since this quarter" --env='PROD'
By default, the program looks for the environment variables
NR_API_KEY
and NR_ACCOUNT_KEY
.
If the env
argument is not none, then the program appends the
environment string to NR_API_KEY
. For example:
NR_API_KEY_PROD
When naming your environment variables, ensure to follow this naming convention.
To export Event data to a csv file via the CLI, pass the --csv
argument, for example:
nrql "select * from Transaction where appName = 'RabbitMQ' since this quarter" --csv
This will export a csv file (events.csv
) to the current working
directory.
To change the output file, pass the --filename
argument:
nrql "select * from Transaction where appName = 'RabbitMQ' since this quarter" --csv --filename='rabbit.csv'
You can also export Event data programmatically:
nrql = NRQL()
nrql.csv = True
nrql.filename = 'events.csv'
nrql.query("select * from Transaction where appName = 'RabbitMQ' since this quarter")
This will output events.csv
to the current working directory.
The Python unittest
module contains its own test discovery function,
which you can run from the command line:
python -m unittest discover tests/
- Fork the project and clone locally.
- Create a new branch for what you’re going to work on.
- Push to your origin repository.
- Create a new pull request in GitHub.