newrelic-lambda-cli 0.9.17

A CLI to install the New Relic AWS Lambda integration and layers.

newrelic-lambda-cli

A CLI to install the New Relic AWS Lambda integration and layers.

Table of Contents

• Features

• Runtimes Supported

• Requirements

• Recommendations

• Installation

• Usage

  • AWS Lambda Integration
  • AWS Lambda Layers
  • AWS Lambda Functions
  • NewRelic Log Subscription
  • NewRelic Otel Log Ingestions
  • NewRelic Otel Log Subscription

• Docker

• Contributing

• Code Style

• Running Tests

• Troubleshooting

Features

• Installs the New Relic AWS Lambda integration onto your AWS account
• Installs and configures a New Relic AWS Lambda layer onto your AWS Lambda functions
• Automatically selects the correct New Relic layer for your function's runtime and region
• Wraps your AWS Lambda functions without requiring a code change
• Supports Go, Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, and Ruby AWS Lambda runtimes
• Easily uninstall the AWS Lambda layer with a single command

Runtimes Supported

Runtime	Versions
Python	python3.8, python3.9, python3.10, python3.11, python3.12, python3.13, python3.14
Node.js	nodejs16.x, nodejs18.x, nodejs20.x, nodejs22.x, nodejs24.x
.NET	dotnet6, dotnet8
Java	java8.al2, java11, java17, java21
Provided	provided.al2, provided.al2023
Ruby	ruby3.2, ruby3.3, ruby3.4

Note: Automatic handler wrapping is only supported for Node.js, Python, Java, and Ruby. For other runtimes, manual function wrapping is required using the runtime specific New Relic agent.

Requirements

• Python >= 3.7 <= 3.13
• Retrieve your New relic Account ID and User API Key
• Retrieve your New Relic Ingest License Key

Recommendations

• Install the AWS CLI and configure your environment with aws configure

Installation

pip3 install newrelic-lambda-cli

Or clone this repo and run:

python3 setup.py install

To update the CLI, run:

pip3 install --upgrade newrelic-lambda-cli

Usage

AWS Lambda Integration

Install Integration

In order to instrument your AWS Lambda functions using New Relic you must first install the New Relic AWS Lambda integration and the log ingestion function in the AWS region in which your Lambda functions are located. If you have Lambda functions located in multiple regions you can run the command multiple times specifying the AWS regions with --aws-region <your aws region here>. This command only needs to be run once per AWS region. By default this command will look for a default AWS profile configured via the AWS CLI.

newrelic-lambda integrations install \
    --nr-account-id <account id> \
    --nr-api-key <api key>

Option	Required?	Description
--nr-account-id or -a	Yes	The New Relic Account ID for this integration. Can also use the NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID environment variable.
--nr-api-key or -k	Yes	Your New Relic User API Key. Can also use the NEW_RELIC_API_KEY environment variable.
--linked-account-name or -n	No	A label for the New Relic Linked Account. This is how this integration will appear in New Relic. Defaults to "New Relic Lambda Integration - ".
--enable-logs or -e	No	Enables forwarding logs to New Relic Logging. This is disabled by default. Make sure you run newrelic-lambda subscriptions install --function ... --filter-pattern "" afterwards.
--enable-license-key-secret	No	Securely manages and store your New Relic license key in AWS Secrets Manager
--enable-cw-ingest	No	Enable the CloudWatch log ingest function
--disable-cw-ingest	No	Disable the CloudWatch log ingest function
--memory-size or -m	No	Memory size (in MiB) for the New Relic log ingestion function. Default to 128MB.
--nr-region	No	The New Relic region to use for the integration. Can use the NEW_RELIC_REGION environment variable. Can be either eu or us. Defaults to us.
--timeout or -t	No	Timeout (in seconds) for the New Relic log ingestion function. Defaults to 30 seconds.
--role-name	No	Role name for the ingestion function. If you prefer to create and manage an IAM role for the function to assume out of band, do so and specify that role's name here. This avoids needing CAPABILITY_IAM.
--integration-arn	No	Specify an existing AWS IAM role to use for the New Relic Lambda integration instead of creating one.
--aws-profile or -p	No	The AWS profile to use for this command. Can also use AWS_PROFILE. Will also check AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables if not using AWS CLI.
--aws-region or -r	No	The AWS region for the integration. Can use AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable. Defaults to AWS session region.
--aws-role-policy	No	Specify an alternative IAM role policy ARN for this integration.
--disable-license-key-secret	No	Don't create a managed secret for your account's New Relic License Key
--tag <key> <value>	No	Sets tags on the CloudFormation Stacks this CLI creates. Can be used multiple times, example: --tag key1 value1 --tag key2 value2.
--stackname	No	The AWS Cloudformation stack name which contains the newrelic-log-ingestion lambda function. If no value is provided, the command searches for the NewRelicLogIngestion stack

Uninstall Integration

newrelic-lambda integrations uninstall

Option	Required?	Description
--aws-profile or -p	No	The AWS profile to use for this command. Can also use AWS_PROFILE. Will also check AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables if not using AWS CLI.
--aws-region or -r	No	The AWS region for the integration. Can use AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable. Defaults to AWS session region.
--force or -f	No	Forces uninstall non-interactively
--nr-account-id or -a	No	The New Relic Account ID for the integration. Only required if also uninstalling the New Relic AWS Lambda integration. Can also use the NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID environment variable.
--stackname	No	The AWS Cloudformation stack name which contains the newrelic-log-ingestion lambda function. If no value is provided, the command searches for the NewRelicLogIngestion stack

Update Integration

Updates the New Relic log ingestion function to the latest version. Existing ingestion function parameters will retain their values, unless you specify different values on the command line. By default, installs the license key secret, if it is missing.

newrelic-lambda integrations update \
    --nr-account-id <account id> \
    --nr-api-key <api key>

Option	Required?	Description
--nr-account-id or -a	Yes	The New Relic Account ID for the integration. Alternatively, you can use the NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID environment variable.
--nr-api-key or -k	Yes	Your New Relic User API Key. Alternatively, you can use the NEW_RELIC_API_KEY environment variable.
--disable-logs or -d	No	Disables forwarding logs to New Relic Logging. Make sure you run newrelic-lambda subscriptions install --function ... afterwards.
--enable-logs or -e	No	Enables forwarding logs to New Relic Logging. Make sure you run newrelic-lambda subscriptions install --function ... --filter-pattern "" afterwards.
--memory-size or -m	No	Memory size (in MiB) for the New Relic log ingestion function.
--enable-license-key-secret	No	Securely manages and store your New Relic license key in AWS Secrets Manager
--nr-region	No	The New Relic region to use for the integration. Can use the NEW_RELIC_REGION environment variable. Can be either eu or us. Defaults to us.
--timeout or -t	No	Timeout (in seconds) for the New Relic log ingestion function.
--role-name	No	Role name for the ingestion function. If you prefer to create and manage an IAM role for the function to assume out of band, do so and specify that role's name here. This avoids needing CAPABILITY_IAM.
--aws-profile or -p	No	The AWS profile to use for this command. Can also use AWS_PROFILE. Will also check AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables if not using AWS CLI.
--aws-region or -r	No	The AWS region for the integration. Can use AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable. Defaults to AWS session region.
--disable-license-key-secret	No	Disable automatic creation of the license key secret on update. The secret is not created if it exists.
--tag <key> <value>	No	Sets tags on the CloudFormation Stacks this CLI creates. Can be used multiple times, example: --tag key1 value1 --tag key2 value2.
--stackname	No	The AWS Cloudformation stack name which contains the newrelic-log-ingestion lambda function. If no value is provided, the command searches for the NewRelicLogIngestion stack

AWS Lambda Layers

Install Layer

newrelic-lambda layers install \
    --function <name or arn> \
    --nr-account-id <new relic account id>

Option	Required?	Description
--function or -f	Yes	The AWS Lambda function name or ARN in which to add a layer. Can provide multiple --function arguments. Will also accept all, installed and not-installed similar to newrelic-lambda functions list.
--nr-account-id or -a	Yes	The New Relic Account ID this function should use. Can also use the NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID environment variable.
--exclude or -e	No	A function name to exclude while installing layers. Can provide multiple --exclude arguments. Only checked when all, installed and not-installed are used. See newrelic-lambda functions list for function names.
--slim	No	The flag --slim adds the Node.js layer without OpenTelemetry dependencies, resulting in a lighter size.
--layer-arn or -l	No	Specify a specific layer version ARN to use. This is auto detected by default.
--upgrade or -u	No	Permit upgrade to the latest layer version for this region and runtime.
--disable-extension	No	Disable the New Relic Lambda Extension.
--enable-extension-function-logs or --send-function-logs	No	Enable sending Lambda function logs via the New Relic Lambda Extension. Disabled by default.
--disable-extension-function-logs or --disable-function-logs	No	Disable sending Lambda function logs via the New Relic Lambda Extension.
--send-extension-logs	No	Enable forwarding logs via the New Relic Lambda Extension. Disabled by default.
--disable-extension-logs	No	Disable forwarding logs via the New Relic Lambda Extension.
--aws-profile or -p	No	The AWS profile to use for this command. Can also use AWS_PROFILE. Will also check AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables if not using AWS CLI.
--aws-region or -r	No	The AWS region this function is located. Can use AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable. Defaults to AWS session region.
--nr-api-key or -k	No	Your New Relic User API Key. Can also use the NEW_RELIC_API_KEY environment variable. Only used if --enable-extension is set and there is no New Relic license key in AWS Secrets Manager.
--nr-ingest-key	No	Your New Relic Ingest License Key. Can be used without --enable-extension configured or license key in AWS Secrets Manager.
--nr-region	No	The New Relic region to use for the integration. Can use the NEW_RELIC_REGION environment variable. Can be either eu or us. Defaults to us. Only used if --enable-extension is set and there is no New Relic license key in AWS Secrets Manager.
--nr-env-delimite	No	Set NR_ENV_DELIMITER environment variable for your Lambda Function
--nr-tags	No	Set NR_TAGS environment variable for your Lambda Function
--java_handler_method or -j	No	For java runtimes only to specify an aws implementation method. Defaults to RequestHandler. Optional inputs are: handleRequest, handleStreamsRequest --java_handler_method handleStreamsRequest.
--esm	No	For Node.js functions using ES Modules (ESM), enable the specific ESM wrapper during installation (e.g., using the --esm flag). This sets the Lambda handler to /opt/nodejs/node_modules/newrelic-esm-lambda-wrapper/index.handler.

Uninstall Layer

newrelic-lambda layers uninstall --function <name or arn>

Option	Required?	Description
--function or -f	Yes	The AWS Lambda function name or ARN in which to remove a layer. Can provide multiple --function arguments. Will also accept all, installed and not-installed similar to newrelic-lambda functions list.
--exclude or -e	No	A function name to exclude while uninstalling layers. Can provide multiple --exclude arguments. Only checked when all, installed and not-installed are used. See newrelic-lambda functions list for function names.
--layer-arn or -l	No	Specify a specific layer version ARN to remove. This is auto detected by default.
--aws-profile or -p	No	The AWS profile to use for this command. Can also use AWS_PROFILE. Will also check AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables if not using AWS CLI.
--aws-region or -r	No	The AWS region this function is located. Can use AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable. Defaults to AWS session region.

AWS Lambda Functions

List Functions

newrelic-lambda functions list

List functions with layer installed:

newrelic-lambda functions list --filter installed

Option	Required?	Description
--filter or -f	No	Filter to be applied to list of functions. Options are all, installed and not-installed. Defaults to all.
--output or -o	No	Specify the desired output format. Supports table and text. Defaults to table.
--aws-profile or -p	No	The AWS profile to use for this command. Can also use AWS_PROFILE. Will also check AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables if not using AWS CLI.
--aws-region or -r	No	The AWS region to use for this command. Can use AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable. Defaults to AWS session region.

NewRelic Log Subscription

Install Log Subscription

newrelic-lambda subscriptions install --function <name or arn>

Option	Required?	Description
--function or -f	Yes	The AWS Lambda function name or ARN in which to add a log subscription. Can provide multiple --function arguments. Will also accept all, installed and not-installed similar to newrelic-lambda functions list.
--stackname	No	The AWS Cloudformation stack name which contains the newrelic-log-ingestion lambda function. If no value is provided, the command searches for the NewRelicLogIngestion stack
--exclude or -e	No	A function name to exclude while installing subscriptions. Can provide multiple --exclude arguments. Only checked when all, installed and not-installed are used. See newrelic-lambda functions list for function names.
--filter-pattern	No	Specify a custom log subscription filter pattern. To collect all logs use --filter-pattern "".
--aws-profile or -p	No	The AWS profile to use for this command. Can also use AWS_PROFILE. Will also check AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables if not using AWS CLI.
--aws-region or -r	No	The AWS region this function is located. Can use AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable. Defaults to AWS session region.

Uninstall Log Subscription

newrelic-lambda subscriptions uninstall --function <name or arn>

Option	Required?	Description
--function or -f	Yes	The AWS Lambda function name or ARN in which to remove a log subscription. Can provide multiple --function arguments. Will also accept all, installed and not-installed similar to newrelic-lambda functions list.
--stackname	No	The AWS Cloudformation stack name which contains the newrelic-log-ingestion lambda function. If no value is provided, the command searches for the NewRelicLogIngestion stack
--exclude or -e	No	A function name to exclude while uninstalling subscriptions. Can provide multiple --exclude arguments. Only checked when all, installed and not-installed are used. See newrelic-lambda functions list for function names.
--aws-profile or -p	No	The AWS profile to use for this command. Can also use AWS_PROFILE. Will also check AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables if not using AWS CLI.
--aws-region or -r	No	The AWS region this function is located. Can use AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable. Defaults to AWS session region.

NewRelic APM + Serverless Convergence

Migrate Alerts from Lambda to APM

newrelic-lambda apm alerts-migrate \
    --nr-account-id <account id> \
    --nr-api-key <api key>
    --function <Lambda-function-name>

NewRelic Otel Ingestions Install

Install Otel Log Ingestion

newrelic-lambda otel-ingestions install \
    --nr-account-id <account id> \
    --nr-api-key <api key>

Option	Required?	Description
--nr-account-id or -a	Yes	The New Relic Account ID for this integration. Can also use the NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID environment variable.
--nr-api-key or -k	Yes	Your New Relic User API Key. Can also use the NEW_RELIC_API_KEY environment variable.
--memory-size or -m	No	Memory size (in MiB) for the New Relic log ingestion function. Default to 128MB.
--nr-region	No	The New Relic region to use for the integration. Can use the NEW_RELIC_REGION environment variable. Can be either eu or us. Defaults to us.
--timeout or -t	No	Timeout (in seconds) for the New Relic log ingestion function. Defaults to 30 seconds.
--role-name	No	Role name for the ingestion function. If you prefer to create and manage an IAM role for the function to assume out of band, do so and specify that role's name here. This avoids needing CAPABILITY_IAM.
--aws-profile or -p	No	The AWS profile to use for this command. Can also use AWS_PROFILE. Will also check AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables if not using AWS CLI.
--aws-region or -r	No	The AWS region for the integration. Can use AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable. Defaults to AWS session region.
--aws-role-policy	No	Specify an alternative IAM role policy ARN for this integration.
--tag <key> <value>	No	Sets tags on the CloudFormation Stacks this CLI creates. Can be used multiple times, example: --tag key1 value1 --tag key2 value2.
--stackname	No	The AWS Cloudformation stack name which contains the newrelic-aws-otel-log-ingestion lambda function. If no value is provided, the command searches for the NewRelicOtelLogIngestion stack

Uninstall Otel Log Ingestion

newrelic-lambda otel-ingestions uninstall

Option	Required?	Description
--aws-profile or -p	No	The AWS profile to use for this command. Can also use AWS_PROFILE. Will also check AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables if not using AWS CLI.
--aws-region or -r	No	The AWS region for the integration. Can use AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable. Defaults to AWS session region.
--force or -f	No	Forces uninstall non-interactively
--nr-account-id or -a	No	The New Relic Account ID for the integration. Only required if also uninstalling the New Relic AWS Lambda integration. Can also use the NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID environment variable.
--stackname	No	The AWS Cloudformation stack name which contains the newrelic-aws-otel-log-ingestion lambda function. If no value is provided, the command searches for the NewRelicOtelLogIngestion stack

NewRelic Otel Log Subscription

Install Otel Log Subscription

newrelic-lambda subscriptions install --function <name or arn> --otel

Option	Required?	Description
--function or -f	Yes	The AWS Lambda function name or ARN in which to remove a log subscription. Can provide multiple --function arguments. Will also accept all, installed and not-installed similar to newrelic-lambda functions list.
--otel or -o	Yes	Use this flag to install subscription filters for Lambdas that are instrumented with OpenTelemetry (Otel)
--stackname	No	The AWS Cloudformation stack name which contains the newrelic-aws-otel-log-ingestion lambda function. If no value is provided, the command searches for the NewRelicOtelLogIngestion stack

Uninstall Otel Log Subscription

newrelic-lambda subscriptions uninstall --function <name or arn> --otel

Option	Required?	Description
--function or -f	Yes	The AWS Lambda function name or ARN in which to remove a log subscription. Can provide multiple --function arguments. Will also accept all, installed and not-installed similar to newrelic-lambda functions list.
--otel or -o	Yes	Use this flag to install subscription filters for Lambdas that are instrumented with OpenTelemetry (Otel)
--stackname	No	The AWS Cloudformation stack name which contains the newrelic-aws-otel-log-ingestion lambda function. If no value is provided, the command searches for the NewRelicOtelLogIngestion stack

Docker

Now, you can run newrelic-lambda-cli as a container.

docker pull public.ecr.aws/newrelic-lambda-layers-for-docker/newrelic-lambda-cli:0.9.4
docker run -v $HOME/.aws:/home/newrelic-lambda-cli/.aws "newrelic-lambda-cli" functions list

Contributing

We welcome code contributions (in the form of pull requests) from our user community. Before submitting a pull request please review these guidelines.

Following these helps us efficiently review and incorporate your contribution and avoid breaking your code with future changes to the agent.

Code style

We use the black code formatter.

pip install black

We recommend using it with pre-commit:

pip install pre-commit
pre-commit install

Using these together will auto format your git commits.

Running Tests

pytest tests

Troubleshooting

Upgrade the CLI: A good first step, as we push updates frequently.

pip3 install --upgrade newrelic-lambda-cli

UnrecognizedClientException:

(UnrecognizedClientException) when calling the GetFunction operation: The security token included in the request is invalid.

If you see this error, it means that specifying the region is necessary, and you need to supply the --aws-region flag to your command.

Unable to locate credentials:

Function: None, Region: None, Error: Failed to set up lambda integration: 'Unable to locate credentials. You can configure credentials by running "aws configure".'

1. The AWS profile may not be properly configured; review documentation to Configure your AWS Profile (make sure the default region is set!).
2. If there are multiple AWS profiles and the correct one is not specified, you can run export AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE=MY_OTHER_PROFILE to set the environment variable to the proper profile.

SimulatePrincipalPolicy:

botocore.errorfactory.InvalidInputException: An error occurred (InvalidInput) when calling the SimulatePrincipalPolicy operation: Invalid Entity Arn: arn:aws:sts::123456789012:assumed-role/u-admin/botocore-session-0987654321 does not clearly define entity type and name.

Some AWS accounts can have permission to operate on resources without having access to SimulatePrincipalPolicy. If this is the case, supply the --no-aws-permissions-check flag to your command.

Error adding new region to integration:

Linking New Relic account to AWS account Traceback (most recent call last): ... File "/Users/USER/PYTHONPATH/lib/python3.8/site-packages/newrelic_lambda_cli/gql.py", line 131, in link_account return res["cloudLinkAccount"]["linkedAccounts"][0] IndexError: list index out of range

This error can happen if you have an existing AWS integration, and are running newrelic-lambda integrations install with a different --linked-account-name (for instance, to add a new region to the integration). The linked account name can be whatever you want it to be, but needs to be consistent with the previously linked AWS account.

AWS Secrets Manager Secret Name Conflict This CLI manages a AWS Secrets Manager secret with the name NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY. If you run into a CloudFormation error reporting that this secret already exists, make sure that you delete any existing secrets and try again. Keep in mind, by default in the AWS console when you delete a secret from AWS Secrets Manager that it will not delete the secret permanently for several days. You will need to perform a "force delete without recovery" when deleting the secret to avoid this naming conflict.