Well, after racking my brian and trying a few different things, NewRelic still isn’t happy. Turns out you need a file in your root repository called newrelic.js. If I had read the manual it would have saved me a great deal of time. So the on disk configuration looks something like the following.

exports.config = {
		app_name: ['node-app']
}

During initialization thie module is included first. The app_name is overriden and the licese key is injected. For example:

	let nr_config_module = require( './newrelic' )
	nr_config_module.config.license_key = nr_key
	nr_config_module.config.app_name = [ "some-application-name" ]
	let nr = require('newrelic')

This will configure NewRelic.