Monitoring Dynamics AX with New Relic

Question

Is it possible to use the New Relic monitoring suite with Dynamics AX? Looking at the options New Relic seems to have an option for .Net applications. As Dynamics has some integration with .Net we wondered if it were possible to use this tool?

Googling for this I found no sign of people having attempted previously.

Answer 1

It may be possible, but that depends a great deal on the how the Dynamics AX applications was designed. At the very least you will need to make sure the .Net Agent installation includes the Instrument All .NET Applications feature. Next, you will need to tell the .Net Agent to instrument the application. How that is done depends on whether or not Dynamics AX uses an app.config file.

If Dynamics AX has an app.config you can adding two appSetting's similar to:

<add key="NewRelic.AppName" value="MyCustomName"/>
<add key="NewRelic.AgentEnabled" value="true"/>

If Dynamics AX doesn't have an app.config you can update the instrumentation element in the newrelic.config found in %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\New Relic.NET Agent to look similar to:

<instrumentation log="false">
  <applications>
    <application name="MyService1.exe" />
  </applications>
</instrumentation>

You can see more about this here and here.