The Life and Times of Michael Shadle

Nearly 100% automated - it looks like the only way to grab an environment variable right now is through some nasty hacks.

Other than the one hard-coded thing at the moment, this seems to work well. Sets up the New Relic configuration as desired, on instance creation. Assuming stock PHP 5.x Amazon Linux AMI.

Just drop this in .ebextensions/newrelic.config or something of the sort, and rebuild your environment. Replace API_KEY with your API key, and change or remove the newrelic.framework line if not using WordPress (this page has a list of supported frameworks)

packages:
  yum:
    newrelic-sysmond: []
    newrelic-php5: []
  rpm:
    newrelic: http://yum.newrelic.com/pub/newrelic/el5/x86_64/newrelic-repo-5-3.noarch.rpm
commands:
  "01_configure_sysmond":
    command: nrsysmond-config --set license_key=API_KEY
  "02_start_sysmond":
    command: /etc/init.d/newrelic-sysmond start
  "03_install_php_agent":
    command: newrelic-install install
    env:
      NR_INSTALL_SILENT: true
      NR_INSTALL_KEY: API_KEY
files:
  "/etc/php.d/newrelic.ini":
    mode: "000644"
    owner: root
    group: root
    content: |
      extension=newrelic.so

      [newrelic]
      newrelic.appname = "`{ "Ref" : "AWSEBEnvironmentName" }`"
      newrelic.browser_monitoring.auto_instrument = true
      newrelic.capture_params = true
      newrelic.enabled = true
      newrelic.error_collector.enabled = true
      newrelic.error_collector.record_database_errors = true
      newrelic.high_security = false
      newrelic.license = "API_KEY"
      newrelic.transaction_tracer.detail = 1
      newrelic.transaction_tracer.enabled = true
      newrelic.transaction_tracer.explain_enabled = true
      newrelic.transaction_tracer.explain_threshold = 2000
      newrelic.transaction_tracer.record_sql = "raw"
      newrelic.transaction_tracer.slow_sql = true
      newrelic.framework = "wordpress"