New Relic OpenVPN monitoring Plugin

The New Relic OpenVPN Plugin enables monitoring OpenVPN, and it reports the following data:

• Amount of active Users
• Amount of active Clients
• Amount of bytes sent
• Amount of bytes received
• Average of bytes sent
• Average of bytes received

Requirements

The OpenVPN 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 an OpenVPN server. That host also needs Ruby (tested with 1.8.7, 1.9.3), and support for rubygems.

Instructions for running the OpenVPN agent

1. Install this gem from RubyGems:

   sudo gem install newrelic_openvpn_agent

2. Install config, execute

   sudo newrelic_openvpn_agent install - it will create /etc/newrelic/newrelic_openvpn_agent.yml file for you.

3. Edit the /etc/newrelic/newrelic_openvpn_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 OpenVPN status binary if needed

4. Execute

   newrelic_openvpn_agent run

5. Go back to the Plugins list and after a brief period you will see the OpenVPN 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.

• Upstart
• Systemd
• Runit
• Monit

Support

Please use Github issues for support.