New Relic now supports AWS Systems Manager Distributor
Blog post from New Relic
An integration between New Relic and AWS Systems Manager Distributor has been announced, facilitating the installation of New Relic's infrastructure agent directly through the AWS interface, thus enabling efficient service monitoring and data querying without manually instrumenting each AWS instance. This integration allows management of up to 30,000 instances from the AWS console, providing auto-instrumentation to ensure new EC2 instances are equipped with the agent, and supports installation via AWS CLI or Infrastructure as Code tools. AWS Systems Manager Distributor centralizes and version-controls software packages, streamlining their distribution, installation, and updating across a fleet of managed nodes, accommodating different operating systems and autoscaling needs. The integration simplifies the deployment process by grouping nodes and allowing package installations based on tags, regions, or account numbers, with the option for scheduled updates. Detailed prerequisites and steps are outlined for setup, ensuring the New Relic agent can be automatically installed and updated on EC2 instances, enhancing observability through New Relic's interface.