New Relic Sidekiq Plugin

Monitors Sidekiq, a library for processing background jobs, reporting the following data for multiple specified instances:

• Number of working workers
• Pending jobs number
• Total failed jobs number
• Number of workers
• Number of processed jobs
• Queues and the enqueued count

Requirements

In order to use this plugin, you must have an active New Relic account.

Plugin should work on any generic Unix environment with the following software components installed:

• Ruby (>= 1.8.7)
• bundler for Ruby: https://github.com/carlhuda/bundler
• Sidekiq

Instructions for running the Sidekiq plugin agent

1. run bundle install to install required gems
2. Copy config/newrelic_plugin.yml.example to config/newrelic_plugin.yml
3. Edit config/newrelic_plugin.yml and replace "YOUR_LICENSE_KEY_HERE" with your New Relic license key
4. Edit the config/newrelic_plugin.yml file and add Redis connection string
5. Running the plugin

In order to check your configuration, you can launch the plugin in foreground mode, with all output going to stdout:

./newrelic_sidekiq_agent

Carefully check plugin's output for any possible error messages. In case of success, collected data should appear in the New Relic user interface shortly after starting.

Plugin can also be started as a daemon using the following command:

./newrelic_sidekiq_agent.daemon start

In this case you can check its status by running

./newrelic_sidekiq_agent.daemon status

and stop it with

./newrelic_sidekiq_agent.daemon stop

Using Monit to keep the Agent running

On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install monit

Example config file:

# /etc/monit/conf.d/newrelic_memcached_agent.conf
check process newrelic_memcached_agent
  with pidfile /home/ubuntu/newrelic_memacached_agent/newrelic_memcached_agent.pid
  start program = "/bin/su - ubuntu -c '/home/ubuntu/newrelic_memcached_agent/newrelic_memcached_agent.daemon start'" with timeout 90 seconds
  stop program = "/bin/su - ubuntu -c '/home/ubuntu/newrelic_memcached_agent/newrelic_memcached_agent.daemon stop'" with timeout 90 seconds
  if totalmem is greater than 250 MB for 2 cycles then restart
  group newrelic_agent