Authentication Related Metrics

NewRelic Custom Metrics

oauth_*

See documentation for the oauth_* custom metrics documented on the Custom Metrics in New Relic page.

Additionally, you can see some of these metrics in use on the Authentication Dashboard in NewRelic Insights.

tripId (built-in metric)

Use tripId, which is a NewRelic provided field to track transaction calls made through various NewRelic apps.

SELECT appName, name, tripId from Transaction WHERE tripId = '7f695092a81bf3ad'

request_auth_type

Actual values seen in Production:

• unauthenticated
• jwt
• bearer
• basic
• no-user
• negotiate
• ntlm
• ssi
• token
• whm
• session-or-unknown

SELECT uniques(request_auth_type) from Transaction SINCE 5 hours ago

request_user_agent

NewRelic has its own "request.headers.userAgent" field.  At this time, it seems that some transactions have a value for "request_user_agent", and others for "request.headers.userAgent", but not both.  This is true even for Python user agents.

SELECT request_user_agent, `request.headers.userAgent` from Transaction WHERE request_user_agent != `request.headers.userAgent` AND (request_user_agent is NOT NULL OR `request.headers.userAgent` IS NOT NULL)

request_client_name

The request_client_name is taken from the user agent string for calls made using edx-rest-api-client v1.8.2+.

SELECT request_client_name FROM Transaction WHERE request_client_name IS NOT NULL AND request_client_name !='unknown_client_name'

request_referer

Seems to be working as expected.  Only appears on certain transactions.

SELECT request_referer from Transaction WHERE request_referer is not null

Update IDAs and NewRelic Applications

NewRelic Applications (RequestMetricsMiddleware)

• prod-edx-analytics-api
• prod-edx-insights
• prod-edx-journals
• prod-edx-credentials
• prod-edx-discovery
• prod-edx-ecommerce
• prod-edx-edxapp-cms
• prod-edx-edxapp-lms
• prod-edx-notes

NewRelic Applications (Workers)

• prod-edx-ecomworker  * not yet updated
• prod-edx-edxapp-workers (updated with edx-platform)

NewRelic Applications (Skipped)

• prod-edx-forum
• prod-edx-mktg

Additional edx-rest-api-client Upgrades Possible

We need to determine when and if to update each of these.  It is moot if the user agent string isn't being updated correctly.

• edx/bi-internal-reporting * not yet updated
• edx/ecommerce-scripts * not yet updated
• edx/ecommerce-worker * not yet updated
• edx/tubular * not yet updated

IDA Updates Completed

For working with all IDAs, see  ARCH-193 - Getting issue details... STATUS  for a list of IDAs and example PRs.