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          "reason": "Scored as a hosted MCP server. status.newrelic.com is an Atlassian Statuspage with 115 components across the US, EU and JP regions and no MCP component (20). history.rss holds seven incidents in the 90 days to 3 November 2026, among them delayed queries and alerts in the US for 49 minutes on 2 November, synthetics ping delays the same day, the JP entity platform unavailable for 67 minutes on 28 October, delayed US data and alerts from 19:24 to 22:04 UTC on 25 September, intermittent UI errors for two and a half hours the same night, a Salesforce support outage on 16 September and a 10-minute EU metric issue. Two regional incidents over an hour on the query and alert paths the server depends on, so one major (10). Published numbers, 2,000 tool calls an hour per user on the MCP server and 25 concurrent NerdGraph requests per user (15). NerdGraph answers 429 on concurrency with guidance to batch or pool, but no Retry-After is documented and nothing covers retries of MCP calls; the tools are reads, so idempotency doesn't arise (8). The pricing page lists support response SLAs, and the paid terms promise commercially reasonable efforts, so no availability SLA (0). Public preview on 4 November 2025, available to all accounts on 3 November 2026 with preview tools marked separately, but no dated GA notice was found (7). 20 + 10 + 15 + 8 + 0 + 7 = 60.",
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          "reason": "Closed service with clear dated terms (paid 8 November 2022, unpaid 21 October 2021) naming New Relic, Inc. (15). A privacy notice of 14 September 2026, a data retention page with per-namespace periods, a security policy, and the MCP docs' statement that gap-analysis responses aren't stored; the master cloud agreement and the trust centre couldn't be read (22). End-of-life notices with dates (REST API keys, 2025) and a pre-release policy that says preview services can change or end (16). US, EU and JP regions are documented for the server and the platform, but no sub-processor list was found on a readable page (10). 15 + 22 + 16 + 10 = 63.",
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          "ergonomics": "40 tools in the default list, above the 30-tool line (5), with the `include-tags` header to load only named groups (add 10, so 15). Time windows on most tools, `convert_time_period_to_epoch_ms`, filters on incidents, errors and logs, and NRQL's own LIMIT and FACET; no documented page size (14). The troubleshooting page covers setup errors with fixes, and the docs say nothing about tool-level error bodies (8). Every tool is a read (query, list, fetch, analyse) and the gap tool reads files the client sends, so a retry is safe; no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint was confirmed because tools/list wasn't read (12). Natural-language prompts need no parameters from the user, and the API behind the server has official NerdGraph clients; nothing agent-specific beyond skills (10). 15 + 14 + 8 + 12 + 10 = 59.",
          "maintenance": "Read as a closed service. The what's-new feed and press releases record changes through October 2026, the latest on 28 October (Change Tracking in GitHub Copilot), and docs llms.txt was regenerated on 3 November (30). More than three dated entries in 90 days, among them the Ground Truth CLI on 6 October, the CEO appointment on 1 October, OpenTelemetry AI monitoring in August and the ISO 42001 announcement (20). A support portal, in-app support and a community forum; the skills hub repository on GitHub, whose issue replies couldn't be read (10 of 15). com.newrelic/mcp-server in the official registry since 28 October 2025 under a DNS-verified namespace, still at 0.1.0 (15). No package to assess for a hosted server; NerdGraph has official clients (5). 30 + 20 + 10 + 15 + 5 = 80.",
          "payments": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). The pricing page is public for the free tier and data ingest ($0.40 per GB beyond 100 GB), but MCP tools are metered as compute units with no per-call rate, and user and edition prices are quoted on request (10). The free tier includes MCP, 100 GB a month and one full platform user with no card (20). A person signs up in a browser and completes the OAuth flow (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.",
          "reliability": "Scored as a hosted MCP server. status.newrelic.com is an Atlassian Statuspage with 115 components across the US, EU and JP regions and no MCP component (20). history.rss holds seven incidents in the 90 days to 3 November 2026, among them delayed queries and alerts in the US for 49 minutes on 2 November, synthetics ping delays the same day, the JP entity platform unavailable for 67 minutes on 28 October, delayed US data and alerts from 19:24 to 22:04 UTC on 25 September, intermittent UI errors for two and a half hours the same night, a Salesforce support outage on 16 September and a 10-minute EU metric issue. Two regional incidents over an hour on the query and alert paths the server depends on, so one major (10). Published numbers, 2,000 tool calls an hour per user on the MCP server and 25 concurrent NerdGraph requests per user (15). NerdGraph answers 429 on concurrency with guidance to batch or pool, but no Retry-After is documented and nothing covers retries of MCP calls; the tools are reads, so idempotency doesn't arise (8). The pricing page lists support response SLAs, and the paid terms promise commercially reasonable efforts, so no availability SLA (0). Public preview on 4 November 2025, available to all accounts on 3 November 2026 with preview tools marked separately, but no dated GA notice was found (7). 20 + 10 + 15 + 8 + 0 + 7 = 60.",
          "schema": "Tool input schemas are only visible through an authenticated session; the tool reference names 40 tools with one-line descriptions, so partial credit for a contract that exists but isn't public (10). docs.newrelic.com publishes llms.txt, updated 3 November 2026, and a Markdown twin of every page (10). Each tool's line says what it does, tags say which group it belongs to, and the reference says which tools need OAuth and which are preview; nothing says when not to use a tool (12). No parameters, types or enums are published; the setup examples show only the `include-tags` header (4). Example natural-language queries per group, a troubleshooting page for OAuth, API key, permission and connection errors, and no error code list (7). A dated what's-new feed and a 0.1.0 registry version, but no MCP changelog or server version in the docs (8). 10 + 10 + 12 + 4 + 7 + 8 = 51.",
          "security": "OAuth 2.0 with the scopes `observability:read`, `offline` and `offline_access`, access tokens that expire after 5 minutes, refresh for 24 hours, revocation by deleting the user or turning off the organisation toggle, and the token acting as the user with no more than their roles; the alternative is a user API key in a header (28). A read scope, organisation toggles that default the API key, preview, Atlassian and AWS routes to off, an organisation-scoped role requirement, and no write tools in the list (16). Logs, error messages and trace attributes are untrusted text and no injection guidance was found (2). NrAuditEvent records sign-ins with IP addresses and NrdbQuery labels queries sent through the server, both queryable by the operator (13). security.txt pointing to a HackerOne programme, a published security policy citing SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 audits of its facilities and its own penetration testing, and an ISO 42001 certification announced on 29 September 2026; the trust centre itself renders through a script and was unread (17). 28 + 16 + 2 + 13 + 17 = 76.",
          "transparency": "Closed service with clear dated terms (paid 8 November 2022, unpaid 21 October 2021) naming New Relic, Inc. (15). A privacy notice of 14 September 2026, a data retention page with per-namespace periods, a security policy, and the MCP docs' statement that gap-analysis responses aren't stored; the master cloud agreement and the trust centre couldn't be read (22). End-of-life notices with dates (REST API keys, 2025) and a pre-release policy that says preview services can change or end (16). US, EU and JP regions are documented for the server and the platform, but no sub-processor list was found on a readable page (10). 15 + 22 + 16 + 10 = 63."
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            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "MCP setup",
            "url": "https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/setup/",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "MCP tool reference",
            "url": "https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/tool-reference/",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "MCP troubleshooting",
            "url": "https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/troubleshoot/",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "public preview announcement",
            "url": "https://docs.newrelic.com/whats-new/2025/11/whats-new-11-05-mcp-server/",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "NerdGraph usage limits",
            "url": "https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/nerdgraph/nerdgraph-usage-limits/",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "API keys",
            "url": "https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/intro-apis/new-relic-api-keys/",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "data retention",
            "url": "https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-apis/manage-data/manage-data-retention/",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "security policy",
            "url": "https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/licenses/license-information/referenced-policies/security-policy/",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "pre-release policy",
            "url": "https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/licenses/license-information/referenced-policies/new-relic-pre-release-policy/",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
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          {
            "what": "llms.txt",
            "url": "https://docs.newrelic.com/llms.txt",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
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          {
            "what": "pricing",
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            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "paid terms of service",
            "url": "https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/paid",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "unpaid terms of service",
            "url": "https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/unpaid",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "privacy notice",
            "url": "https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/privacy",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
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          {
            "what": "security.txt",
            "url": "https://newrelic.com/.well-known/security.txt",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
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          {
            "what": "status page",
            "url": "https://status.newrelic.com/",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "status history feed",
            "url": "https://status.newrelic.com/history.rss",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "MCP registry entry",
            "url": "https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=newrelic",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "Ground Truth CLI press release",
            "url": "https://newrelic.com/press-release/20261006-2",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "take-private completion",
            "url": "https://newrelic.com/press-release/20231108",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "newsroom",
            "url": "https://newrelic.com/about/newsroom",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "RDAP for newrelic.com",
            "url": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/newrelic.com",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          },
          {
            "what": "robots.txt",
            "url": "https://newrelic.com/robots.txt",
            "seen": "2026-11-03"
          }
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        "openQuestions": [
          "unchecked: the live tools/list, input schemas and annotations, which need an OAuth session; the tool count of 40 is from the tool reference, which also lists two Kafka tools behind a feature flag",
          "unchecked: the master cloud agreement (disallowed by robots.txt) and the trust centre at trust.newrelic.com (script-rendered), so certifications rest on the security policy and press releases, and no sub-processor list was read",
          "unchecked: whether the MCP server itself is generally available; the overview says MCP is available to all accounts and marks preview tools separately, while the only dated status is the public preview of 4 November 2025. Scored as GA with 7 of 10 for the mixed signals",
          "The registry entry com.newrelic/mcp-server is version 0.1.0 of 28 October 2025, before the public preview date used for firstReleased; the earlier limited availability wasn't documented on a first-hand page",
          "Judgement call on reliability. The 25 September 2026 US data delay (2h40) and the 28 October JP entity platform incident (67 minutes) were scored as one major rather than several, because each was regional and the feed carries no impact labels beyond the three on the front page",
          "The listing's kind is mcp and the hosted server is what's graded; NerdGraph, the GraphQL API behind it, is not listed on its own"
        ]
      },
      "negative": 0,
      "verdict": "OAuth with a read scope, 5-minute access tokens, role-bound calls and a queryable audit trail make this a safe read surface over an account's data, and the free tier includes it. 40 tools need tag filtering, the schemas aren't public, there is no per-call price, and no dated GA notice was found.",
      "bestFor": "Agents investigating incidents, errors, deployments and performance in an existing New Relic account, where reads are enough.",
      "strengths": [
        "OAuth 2.0 with `observability:read`, access tokens that expire after 5 minutes, revocation by user or organisation toggle, and every call bound to the user's roles",
        "`include-tags` header limits the 40 tools to the groups a task needs, such as `discovery,alerting`",
        "Sign-ins and NRQL sent through the server are queryable in NrAuditEvent and NrdbQuery with a product label",
        "Available on the free tier (100 GB a month, no card) and rate-limited at a published 2,000 tool calls an hour per user",
        "llms.txt and Markdown twins of every docs page, a dated what's-new feed and a verified registry namespace"
      ],
      "weaknesses": [
        "Tool input schemas are visible only through an authenticated session; the docs give one-line descriptions and no parameters",
        "40 tools in the default list, above the 30-tool line, unless the client sends `include-tags`",
        "No per-call price; tools are metered as Core and Advanced Compute Units on the account's bill",
        "Public preview since 4 November 2025 with no dated general availability notice found, and preview tools mixed into the list",
        "Logs, errors and traces come back as untrusted text with no prompt-injection guidance; the trust centre renders through a script our reader can't run"
      ],
      "agentNotes": [
        "Connect with OAuth; an `api-key` header reaches only the core tools and the docs say the API key route works only where stated",
        "Send `include-tags` with the groups the task needs (for example `discovery,data-access`) to keep the tool list under 30",
        "Call `list_available_new_relic_accounts` first and pass the account id to every query; `convert_time_period_to_epoch_ms` turns phrases such as last 30 minutes into the epoch bounds the other tools take",
        "Stay under 2,000 tool calls an hour per user and 25 concurrent NerdGraph requests; a 429 clears as in-flight requests finish",
        "Ask the organisation administrator to turn on the Preview Tools, API Keys, Atlassian or AWS toggles in feature control manager before relying on those tools; they are off by default"
      ],
      "metrics": {
        "kind": "remote",
        "measured": false
      },
      "reviewCount": 0,
      "avgRating": 0,
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          "basis": "public evidence",
          "confidence": "medium",
          "grade": "C",
          "methodology": "0.7",
          "pending": [
            "performance",
            "tasks"
          ],
          "run": "2026-10-01",
          "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
          "score": 61
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        "maintenance": 80,
        "payments": 30,
        "reliability": 60,
        "schema": 51,
        "security": 76,
        "transparency": 63
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      "provenanceScore": 98,
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      "Rate limit of 2,000 tool calls an hour per user on the MCP server, and 25 concurrent requests per user on NerdGraph, which answers 429 beyond that (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/nerdgraph/nerdgraph-usage-limits/)",
      "Four AI analysis tools, the GitHub gap-analysis tool and the preview trace, dependency and Kafka tools need OAuth and are unavailable with an API key; preview tools are read-only and unpriced (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/tool-reference/)",
      "Every tool call runs under the signed-in user's roles; NRQL sent through the server is labelled `productComponent = 'New Relic AI MCP Server'` in NrdbQuery and sign-ins appear in NrAuditEvent, both queryable (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/overview/)",
      "The server entered public preview on 4 November 2025; on 3 November 2026 the docs say MCP is available to all accounts and mark only named tools as preview, with no dated GA notice found (https://docs.newrelic.com/whats-new/2025/11/whats-new-11-05-mcp-server/)",
      "Listed in the official MCP registry as com.newrelic/mcp-server 0.1.0 on 28 October 2025 with the remote URL https://mcp.newrelic.com/mcp (https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=newrelic)",
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        "security.txt at newrelic.com/.well-known/security.txt points to HackerOne for contact and policy.",
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