---
title: Envoy integration
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/host-integrations/host-integrations-list/envoy-integration
---

Gain deep insights into Envoy's operations with seamless data integration into New Relic. Monitor key metrics to ensure the optimal performance of your Envoy backend clusters, listening sockets, HTTP routing, and cryptographic material.

![Envoy dashboard](https://docs.newrelic.com/images/infrastructure_screenshot_full-envoy-dashboard.webp "Envoy dashboard")

After setting up our Envoy integration, we give you a dashboard for your Envoy metrics.

## Install the infrastructure agent [#infra-install]

To use the Envoy integration, you need to also [install the infrastructure agent](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/install-infrastructure-agent/get-started/install-infrastructure-agent-new-relic/) on the same host. The infrastructure agent monitors the host itself, while the integration you'll install in the next step extends your monitoring with Envoy-specific data.

## Enable the Envoy integration with nri-prometheus

To set up the Envoy integration, follow these steps:

1.  Create a file named `nri-prometheus-config.yml` in the integrations directory:
    ```shell
    touch /etc/newrelic-infra/integrations.d/nri-prometheus-config.yml
    ```
2.  Add the following snippet to your `nri-prometheus-config.yml` file to enable the agent to capture Envoy data:

    ```yml
    integrations:
      - name: nri-prometheus
        config:
          # When standalone is set to false nri-prometheus requires an infrastructure agent to work and send data. Defaults to true 
          standalone: false

          # When running with infrastructure agent emitters will have to include infra-sdk 
          emitters: infra-sdk

          # The name of your cluster. It's important to match other New Relic products to relate the data.
          cluster_name: "YOUR_DESIRED_CLUSTER_NAME"

          targets:
            - description: Envoy metrics list
              urls: ["http://<ip-address>:9901/stats/prometheus"]

          #     tls_config:
          #     ca_file_path: "/etc/etcd/etcd-client-ca.crt"
          #     cert_file_path: "/etc/etcd/etcd-client.crt"
          #      key_file_path: "/etc/etcd/etcd-client.key"

          # Whether the integration should run in verbose mode or not. Defaults to false
          verbose: false

          # Whether the integration should run in audit mode or not. Defaults to false.
          # Audit mode logs the uncompressed data sent to New Relic. Use this to log all data sent.
          # It does not include verbose mode. This can lead to a high log volume, use with care
          audit: false

          # The HTTP client timeout when fetching data from endpoints. Defaults to 30s.
          # scrape_timeout: "30s"

          # Length in time to distribute the scraping from the endpoints
          scrape_duration: "5s"

          # Number of worker threads used for scraping targets.
          # For large clusters with many (&gt;400) endpoints, slowly increase until scrape
          # time falls between the desired `scrape_duration`.
          # Increasing this value too much will result in huge memory consumption if too
          # many metrics are being scraped.
          # Default: 4
          # worker_threads: 4

          # Whether the integration should skip TLS verification or not. Defaults to false
          insecure_skip_verify: true
        timeout: 10s
    ```

## Forward Envoy logs

Follow these steps to forward Envoy logs to New Relic:

1.  Edit the log file named `logging.yml` located at the following path:

    ```shell
    cd /etc/newrelic-infra/logging.d
    ```
2.  Add the following script to the `logging.yml` file. Replace `file` with your Envoy log filepath if needed:

    ```yml
    logs:
      - name: envoy.log
        file: /tmp/envoy.log
        attributes:
          logtype: envoy_logs
      - name: envoy-admin.log
        file: /tmp/admin_access.log
        attributes:
          logtype: envoy_admin_logs
    ```

## Restart the New Relic infrastructure agent

Restart your infrastructure agent.

````shell
sudo systemctl restart newrelic-infra.service
```

In a couple of minutes, your application will send metrics to [one.newrelic.com](https://one.newrelic.com).  


````

## Find your data

You can choose our pre-built dashboard template named `Envoy` to monitor your Envoy application metrics. Follow these steps to use our pre-built dashboard template:

1.  From [one.newrelic.com](https://one.newrelic.com), go to the **+ Integrations & Agents** page
2.  Click on **Dashboards**
3.  In the search bar, type `Envoy`
4.  The Envoy dashboard should appear. Click on it to install it

    Your Envoy dashboard is considered a custom dashboard and can be found in the **Dashboards** UI. For docs on using and editing dashboards, see [our dashboard docs](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/query-your-data/explore-query-data/dashboards/introduction-dashboards).

    Here is a NRQL query to check the Envoy downstream total connections:

    ```sql
    SELECT latest(envoy_http_downstream_cx_total) as 'Downstream total connections' from Metric
    ```

## What's next?

To learn more about building NRQL queries and generating dashboards, check out these docs:

-   [Introduction to the query builder](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/query-your-data/explore-query-data/query-builder/introduction-query-builder) to create basic and advanced queries.
-   [Introduction to dashboards](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/query-your-data/explore-query-data/dashboards/introduction-dashboards) to customize your dashboard and carry out different actions.
-   [Manage your dashboard](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/query-your-data/explore-query-data/dashboards/manage-your-dashboard) to adjust your dashboards display mode, or to add more content to your dashboard.