New Relic MCP Server (Official)
Official New Relic MCP server enabling AI agents to interact with New Relic's observability platform — querying metrics and traces via NRQL, checking alerts, reading dashboards, and investigating application and infrastructure health.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
HTTPS enforced. API key lacks scopes. FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA. Enterprise observability platform.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
An agent needs to investigate application performance, check alerts, or query observability data from a New Relic-instrumented system.
Avoid When
You're using Datadog, Dynatrace, or another APM platform — use those integrations.
Use Cases
- • Querying application performance metrics via NRQL from monitoring agents
- • Checking alert policies and incident state for on-call agents
- • Analyzing error rates and response times during incident response
- • Reading infrastructure metrics from New Relic agents
- • Building automated runbooks using New Relic data
Not For
- • Teams using Datadog, Dynatrace, or other APM platforms
- • Log-only observability (New Relic is full-stack APM)
- • Agents unfamiliar with NRQL query language
Interface
Authentication
User API keys for agent access. License keys for data ingest only. No fine-grained scopes on API keys — account-level access.
Pricing
Data ingestion pricing. Free tier useful for small services. New Relic is competitive on price vs Datadog.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ NRQL is New Relic-specific SQL dialect — agents must know NRQL syntax
- ⚠ Account ID required for all queries — configure correctly
- ⚠ NerdGraph (GraphQL) vs REST API have different capabilities
- ⚠ Data retention limits mean historical queries beyond retention window fail
- ⚠ User API keys have no scope granularity — full account access
- ⚠ Metric data vs event data vs log data use different NRQL patterns
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.