Configure New Relic so that newrelic.jar and newrelic.yml don't need to be collocated

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I got New Relic instrumentation working with my Java/Mule ESB application. Everything works great (running in Eclipse at least).

However, since I already have the New Relic jar files in my Maven repository, I don't want to check in another version of the New Relic agent jar in my project. From what I've read in the New Relic documentation the New Relic agent jar and the newrelic.yml should be in the same directory, but I want to have the newrelic.yml in my project and reference the New Relic agent jar in my Maven repository.

Something like a JVM argument that specifies the newrelic.yml (like it currently is with the javaagent) would be great.

Thanks for any suggestions!

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1 Answers

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From the New Relic support team (quick reply, by the way!):

1) You can set the system property newrelic.config.file to the fully qualified path of your newrelic configuration file. The property can be found on the docs site here:https://newrelic.com/docs/java/java-agent-configuration#System_Properties

2) You must have a newrelic.yml configuration file even if you are relying on server-side config.