Request : Reconnect upon "connection reset by peer" condition

[bfurey]

I am running the meetme plugin for Redis within a docker container running in Kubernetes

Am running the plugin via : newrelic-plugin-agent -c /etc/newrelic/newrelic-plugin-agent.cfg

During the running of the plugin, we encountered a 'Connection reset by peer' condition and the plugin did not recover.

i.e.

tail -n 200 /var/tmp/newrelic-plugin-agent.errors
------------------------------------------------------------------------ [START]
/usr/bin/newrelic-plugin-agent Exception [2018-01-14T01:23:37.211820]
------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO]
Interpreter: /usr/bin/python2
CLI arguments: /usr/bin/newrelic-plugin-agent -c /etc/newrelic/newrelic-plugin-agent.cfg
Exception: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/helper/unix.py", line 92, in start
    self.controller.start()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/helper/controller.py", line 266, in start
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/helper/controller.py", line 257, in run
    signal.pause()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/helper/controller.py", line 428, in _wake
    self.process()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/newrelic_plugin_agent/agent.py", line 118, in process
    self.start_plugin_polling()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/newrelic_plugin_agent/agent.py", line 280, in start_plugin_polling
    self.config.application.get(plugin))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/newrelic_plugin_agent/agent.py", line 108, in poll_plugin
    thread.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 754, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/newrelic_plugin_agent/agent.py", line 308, in thread_process
    obj.poll()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/newrelic_plugin_agent/plugins/base.py", line 281, in poll
    connection = self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/newrelic_plugin_agent/plugins/redis.py", line 116, in connect
    buffer_value = connection.recv(self.SOCKET_RECV_MAX)
error: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- [END]

Plugin will stop and will not recover, until such point as it is manually restarted.

Request to build in a reconnect logic to be built into the plugin