New Relic piVPN (OpenVPN) monitoring Plugin
The New Relic piVPN Plugin enables monitoring piVPN, and it reports the following data:
- Amount of active Users
- Amount of bytes sent
- Amount of bytes received
- Average of bytes sent
- Average of bytes received
Note
This plugin is based on KangaCoders' newrelic_openvpn_agent - https://rubygems.org/gems/newrelic_openvpn_agent, v.0.0.1
Requirements
The piVPN monitoring Plugin for New Relic requires the following:
- A New Relic account. Signup for a free account at http://newrelic.com
- You need to install this plugin on a piVPN server. That host also needs Ruby (tested with 1.8.7, 1.9.3), and support for rubygems.
Instructions for running the piVPN agent
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Install this gem from RubyGems:
sudo gem install newrelic_pivpn_agent
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Install config, execute
sudo newrelic_pivpn_agent install
- it will create/etc/newrelic/newrelic_pivpn_agent.yml
file for you. -
Edit the
/etc/newrelic/newrelic_pivpn_agent.yml
file generated in step 2.3.1. replace
YOUR_LICENSE_KEY_HERE
with your New Relic license key. Your license key can be found under Account Settings at https://rpm.newrelic.com, see https://newrelic.com/docs/subscriptions/license-key for more help.3.2. replace the agent name 'openvpn' to any unique instance name of choice
3.3. replace the path of the piVPN status binary if needed
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Execute
newrelic_pivpn_agent run
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Go back to the Plugins list and after a brief period you will see the piVPN Plugin listed in your New Relic account
Keep this process running
You can use services like these to manage this process and run it as a daemon.
Support
Please use Github issues for support.