NAME

    NewRelic::Agent::FFI - Perl Agent for NewRelic APM

VERSION

    version 0.01

SYNOPSIS

     use NewRelic::Agent;
     
     my $agent = NewRelic:Agent->new(
       license_key => 'abc123',
       app_name    => 'REST API',
     );
     
     $agent->embed_collector;
     $agent->init;
     my $txn_id = $agent->begin_transaction;
     ...
     my $err_id = $agent->end_transaction($txn_id);

DESCRIPTION

    WARNING: This module should be considered Alpha Quality!

    This module provides bindings for the NewRelic
    <https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agents/agent-sdk/getting-started/new-relic-agent-sdk>
    Agent SDK.

    It is a drop in replacement for NewRelic::Agent that is implemented
    using FFI::Platypus instead of XS and C++.

    Why use this module instead of the other one? As of this writing, you
    should definitely not use it in production! See the warning above and
    the caveats below. One advantage is that this module uses powerful
    Alien technology to source the NewRelic agent libraries. The other
    module has a serious bug which will break when the install files are
    removed <https://github.com/aanari/NewRelic-Agent/issues/2>. Another
    advantage to this module is that it does not require a C++ compiler, or
    even a C compiler for that matter. I think requiring C++ is overkill
    for using the NewRelic SDK.

 CAVEATS

    This module attempts to replicate the same interface as
    NewRelic::Agent, and this module includes a superset of the same tests.
    Unfortunately, the existing test suite for NewRelic::Agent is
    completely insufficient to have a high degree of confidence that either
    module works.

AUTHOR

    Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    This software is copyright (c) 2018 by Graham Ollis.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.