Race condition between deletion and creation of monitor

[aeliaNR]

Hello team! I'm a New Relic employee, so please feel free to ping via Slack for a link to a tangible example of this bug.

Please include the following with your bug report

• [x] Your New Relic provider configuration
• [x] A list of affected resources and/or data sources
• [x] The configuration of the resources and/or data sources related to the bug report (i.e. from the list mentioned above)
• [x] Description of the current behavior (the bug)
• [x] Description of the expected behavior
• [x] Any related log output

Terraform Version

• NR Provider: 2.39.0
• Terraform: v0.14.2

Affected Resource(s)

• newrelic_synthetics_monitor

Terraform Configuration

• We have an internal repository - ping me on Slack for details/a link.

Actual Behavior

• On plan, newrelic_synthetics_monitor items are marked for deletion then recreation.
• On apply, error message is received of form:

Error: 400 response returned: Invalid name specified: ‘FILLER TEXT HERE’; a monitor with that name already exists.
 in resource "newrelic_synthetics_monitor" “filler_name_here”:

• Users can view the synthetics UI and observe asynchronous deletion of synthetics resources

Expected Behavior

• Either find an avenue to update the item instead of delete/create or adjust the delete/create of a same-named monitor to be synchronous

Steps to Reproduce

See Actual Behavior section.

Debug Output

• Ping via Slack for a link to a relevant PR which had this issue.

[kidk]

Thanks for the report @aeliaNR

With the current REST API we can't do an update, but there's a new GraphQL API coming soon (end of April). I'm currently hesitant to spend time on the REST API implementation as it's going away.

Is this a blocker for you? If you run Terraform again does it work?

[aeliaNR]

Understood. This is not an urgent blocker as we've learned to just re-run the plan/apply until it works for these items.

[kidk]

@aeliaNR We've released V3 version of our provider which includes all of the new Synthetics features and lots of bugfixes: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/newrelic/newrelic/latest/docs/guides/migration_guide_v3

If you have some time could you check if you still experience this issue with the new implementation? Thanks a lot

[NSSPKrishna]

We haven’t heard back from you in a long time so we will close the ticket. If you feel this is still a valid request or bug, feel free to create a new issue.