We run New Relic extensively (at least a few hundred instances) for our customers. Here's the native systemd service unit we use. I'm sure we'd tweak it if we revisited it now, but it certainly works.
[Unit] Description=New Relic Global Daemon [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/newrelic-daemon -c /etc/newrelic/newrelic_global.cfg -l /var/log/newrelic-daemon.log -p /var/run/newrelic-daemon.pid ExecStop=/usr/bin/newrelic-daemon -c /etc/newrelic/newrelic_global.cfg -C stop /dev/null 2>&1 PIDFile=/var/run/newrelic-daemon.pid TimeoutSec=15 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
