mention newrelic

Author: grosser

.env.example

@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ PERIODICAL=stop_expired_deploys:60,remove_expired_locks:60
 
 # ENV_WHITELIST=FOOBAR,BARFOO # optional, list of env values that should be passed to the command when deploying
 
+## NewRelic: optional report performance stats see https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agents/ruby-agent/configuration/ruby-agent-configuration
+# NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY: my-key
+# NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME: Samson
+# NEW_RELIC_LOG_FILE_PATH: STDOUT
+
 ## Docker
 # DOCKER_FEATURE=1 # optional, docker support
 # DOCKER_REGISTRIES=https://user:[email protected]/some-namespace # required, where to push/pull your docker images

README.md

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Samson will:
 * [Continuous Integration](https://github.com/zendesk/samson/blob/master/docs/ci.md)
 * [Extra features](https://github.com/zendesk/samson/blob/master/docs/extra_features.md)
 * [Plugins](https://github.com/zendesk/samson/blob/master/docs/plugins.md)
-* [Getting statistics](https://github.com/zendesk/samson/blob/master/docs/stats.md)
+* [Statistics](https://github.com/zendesk/samson/blob/master/docs/stats.md)
 
 ### Contributing
 

docs/stats.md

@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
 # Instrumentation
 
-Samson sends StatsD basic web request metrics and metrics about deploys and threads
+### StatsD
+
+Samson sends StatsD web request metrics and metrics about deploys and threads
 in use. Statsd silently disables itself if no agent is running on the host. All
 metrics collected are prepending with 'samson.app'.
 
 <img src="/docs/images/datadog.png?raw=true" width="600">
+
+### NewRelic
+
+If a `NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY` and `NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME` are set, then performance stats will be sent to [NewRelic](https://newrelic.com/),
+for more details see [Agent configuration](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agents/ruby-agent/configuration/ruby-agent-configuration).