New Relic API
New Relic's NerdGraph GraphQL API and REST APIs for full-stack observability including APM, infrastructure monitoring, log management, and alert policy management.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
User API keys and restricted keys with permission scopes. NRQL query language for data access. SOC2 Type II, ISO27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP. GraphQL NerdGraph API provides flexible querying.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
An agent needs to query or manage New Relic observability data, especially using NRQL for custom analytics across traces, metrics, and logs.
Avoid When
You're not on New Relic, or prefer a REST-only API without GraphQL.
Use Cases
- • Querying application performance data for automated analysis
- • Managing alert policies and notification channels programmatically
- • Creating synthetic monitors and uptime checks via agents
- • Retrieving NRQL query results for reporting and dashboards
- • Managing deployment markers and change tracking
Not For
- • Teams not using New Relic
- • Simple uptime monitoring (cheaper options available)
- • Teams needing open-source observability stack
- • Very small teams where cost is prohibitive
Interface
Authentication
User keys (personal) and license keys for data ingest. NerdGraph uses user keys. REST API uses different key types. Two-level key system can be confusing for agents.
Pricing
100GB/month free tier is genuinely useful for small deployments. Pricing based on data ingest volume — costs scale with data volume. No credit card required for free tier.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ NerdGraph rate limit of 3 req/s is very restrictive for agent polling
- ⚠ Multiple API surfaces: NerdGraph (GraphQL), REST v2, Insights API — confusing for agents
- ⚠ NRQL is proprietary query language — agents must learn New Relic syntax
- ⚠ Account ID required for most queries — differs from API key
- ⚠ Data ingest and data query use different authentication keys
- ⚠ EU region requires different API endpoints (api.eu.newrelic.com)
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.