Case Study
New Relic Squid Proxy
A stalled POC is a lost deal. Every hour a client spends waiting for connectivity issues to be resolved is an hour they are not seeing value from the product. This tool turns a recurring manual bottleneck into a single command that any engineer can run, on any Linux distro, in any network environment.
Snapshot
The Problem
Enterprise environments don't always have direct internet access. Servers sit behind corporate firewalls, traffic goes through proxy chains, and getting a New Relic agent connected becomes a manual, distro-specific process that derails POC timelines before the client sees a single metric. Every new client with network restrictions meant starting from scratch.
What I Built
An automated Squid Proxy installer that handles the entire lifecycle in a single command. One-liner install, multi-distro Linux support across nine distributions, optional SSL bump for TLS interception, Basic Auth, corporate proxy chaining, and a built-in verification engine that tests connectivity to all New Relic endpoints before handoff. It also ships with a New Relic dashboard out of the box, so the proxy itself is observable from day one.