Flex documentation

Get started

• Basic tutorial
• Configure Flex
• Data sources
• Data transformation functions
• Troubleshooting

Data sources

With Flex you can acquire data from multiple sources for processing:

• commands: standard output from command-line tools
• url: JSON output from HTTP/HTTPS endpoints
• file: JSON and CSV files processing

More data sources will be added in future updates.

Experimental features

Flex implements the following experimental features. 'Experimental' here means that New Relic does not yet provides support for them.

• Experimental functions
• Database queries
• Net dial
• Git configuration synchronization
• JMX
• Standalone mode

Deprecated features

The following functionalities are still provided by Flex for backwards compatibility, but its use is discouraged and unsupported because New Relic provides more convenient implementations of such functionalities.

For each deprecated functionality, please consider migrating to the New Relic supported equivalent, as linked in the right column of the following table.

Deprecated feature	New Relic supported equivalent
Discovery	Container auto-discovery for On-Host Integrations
JMX	New Relic JMX On-Host Integration
Prometheus	New Relic Prometheus OpenMetrics integration for Docker and Kubernetes
Secrets management	Secrets management for On-Host Integrations