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There are many reasons you might want to export your telemetry data—for instance, you might use a self-managed data platform or leverage a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) to do additional data analysis. Fortunately, you can use the NerdGraph API, a GraphQL-format API that lets you query New Relic data, to export your telemetry data.

This post shows you how to export telemetry data using New Relic Query Language (NRQL) and Python. This example uses The Four Golden Signals, but you can also apply this example to your own custom queries as well.

Prerequisites

If you plan to follow along with this tutorial and use Python to make your API calls, you need:

The next video shows you how to export telemetry data using the NerdGraph API.

Exporting data for analysis

Here's an example query for exporting data using the NerdGraph API. If you need more context on the starter code, see Using Python to make an API call in part one of this series.

import requests
import json
from license import user_key

def nerdgraph_nrql(key):
  # GraphQL query to NerdGraph
  query = """
  { 
    actor { account(id: XXX) 
      { nrql
      (query: "XXX") 
      { results } } } 
  }"""
  
  # NerdGraph endpoint
  endpoint = "https://api.newrelic.com/graphql"
  headers = {'API-Key': f'{key}'}
  response = requests.post(endpoint, headers=headers, json={"query": query})

  if response.status_code == 200:
    # convert a JSON into an equivalent python dictionary
    dict_response = json.loads(response.content)
    print(dict_response['data']['actor']['account']['nrql'])

    # optional - serialize object as a JSON formatted stream
    # json_response = json.dumps(response.json(), indent=2)
    # print(json_response)

  else:
      # raise an exepction with a HTTP response code, if there is an error
      raise Exception(f'Nerdgraph query failed with a {response.status_code}.')

nerdgraph_nrql(user_key)

Note that you would replace the "XXX" in (query: "XXX") with the data you'd like to export.

Using NRQL to query data on golden signals

So what kind of data would you potentially export? Here's where the golden signals come in. The Four Golden Signals of monitoring are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation. If you can only measure four metrics of your user-facing system, focus on these signals.

If you're new to NRQL, see this resource on NRQL syntax, clauses, components, and functions.

Use FACET to separate and group your results by attribute values. For example, you could FACET your PageView data by deviceType to figure out what percentage of your traffic comes from mobile, tablet, and desktop devices.

Use the LIMIT clause to specify how many facets appear (the default is 10). For more complex grouping, use FACET CASES. These clauses support up to five attributes, separated by commas.

Querying latency

The next two queries return the following:

  • The average response time since 7 days ago, grouped hourly
  • The 95th percentile response time since 30 days ago, grouped daily

You'll need to specify your appName and the httpResponseCode you are searching for—for instance, you could use 200 for successful page views.

SELECT average(duration) FROM Transaction WHERE appName = 'XXX' AND httpResponseCode = 'XXX' SINCE 7 days ago limit MAX FACET hourOf(timestamp)

SELECT percentile(duration, 95) FROM Transaction WHERE appName = 'XXX' AND httpResponseCode = 'XXX' SINCE 30 days ago limit MAX FACET dateOf(timestamp)

Querying traffic

The next two queries return the following:

  • The rate of change (1min) since 7 days ago, grouped hourly
  • Return the rate of change (1hr) since 30 days ago, grouped daily

Once again, you need to specify your appName.

SELECT rate(count(*), 1 minute) FROM Transaction WHERE appName = 'XXX' SINCE 7 days ago limit MAX FACET hourOf(timestamp)

SELECT rate(count(*), 1 hour) FROM Transaction WHERE appName = 'XXX' SINCE 30 days ago limit MAX FACET dateOf(timestamp)

Querying errors

The next two queries return the following:

  • The percentage of errors for status code 2XX since 7 days ago, grouped hourly
  • The percentage of errors for status codes outside 2XX since 30 days ago, grouped daily
SELECT percentage(count(*), WHERE httpResponseCode LIKE '2%') FROM Transaction WHERE appName = 'XXX' SINCE 7 days ago limit MAX FACET hourOf(timestamp)

SELECT percentage(count(*), WHERE httpResponseCode NOT LIKE '2%') FROM Transaction WHERE appName = 'XXX' SINCE 30 days ago limit MAX FACET dateOf(timestamp)

Querying saturation

The next two queries return the following:

  • The average CPU since 7 days ago, grouped hourly
  • The average MEM since 30 days ago, grouped daily
SELECT average(cpuPercent) FROM SystemSample WHERE hostname LIKE '%XXX%' SINCE 7 days ago limit MAX FACET hourOf(timestamp)

SELECT average(memoryUsedPercent) FROM SystemSample WHERE hostname LIKE '%XXX%' SINCE 30 days ago limit MAX FACET dateOf(timestamp)

Stay tuned for part four in the series, where you'll learn how to export dashboards for reporting with Python and the NerdGraph API. In the mean time, learn about our python agent for event loop diagnostics.