# New Relic MCP Server

> New Relic's hosted MCP server at mcp.newrelic.com gives AI agents read access to an account's entities, NRQL data, alerts, issues, logs, errors, traces and deployments, with OAuth or a user API key, on top of the NerdGraph API.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic
- Pricing: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic#pricing
- Reviews: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic#reviews
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic.md (~8,600 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic.min.md (~1,880 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- DNS: dig +short TXT new-relic.grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.<category>. and <a>.vs.<b>. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-11-04

## Overview

**Grade C · 61/100 · rank #528 of 1349 · #5 in Observability & incidents · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


## Assessment

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.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | New Relic, Inc. (https://newrelic.com) |
| Kind | MCP server |
| Category | Observability & incidents (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/observability) |
| Transport | Streamable HTTP |
| Endpoint | `https://mcp.newrelic.com/mcp/` |
| Auth | OAuth · OAuth 2.0 (recommended) with scopes `observability:read`, `offline` and `offline_access`; access tokens expire after 5 minutes and are refreshed, with sign-in again after 24 hours. Or a user API key (`NRAK-...`) in an `api-key` header, which the docs say only works where stated and excludes the AI analysis, gap and preview tools. An administrator must leave the MCP toggles on in feature control manager and the user needs an organisation-scoped read role. EU and JP accounts use mcp.eu.newrelic.com and mcp.jp.newrelic.com. |
| Pricing | Freemium ($0.40 / GB) · MCP is available on every New Relic account, including the free tier (100 GB of ingest a month, one full platform user, no card). Most tools are metered as Core Compute Units against the account's allocation and four AI analysis tools as Advanced Compute Units; no per-call price is published. Data beyond 100 GB costs $0.40 per GB; user and edition prices are quoted on request (https://newrelic.com/pricing). |
| x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 in the MCP docs, pricing page or terms (checked 2026-11-03). MCP calls are metered as compute units on the account's bill. |
| Licence | unknown |
| Tools exposed | 40 |
| MCP registry name | `com.newrelic/mcp-server` |
| Source | https://github.com/newrelic/nr-skills-hub |
| Docs | https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/overview/ |
| llms.txt | https://docs.newrelic.com/llms.txt |
| Last release | 2026-10-28 |
| Surface listed | The hosted MCP server at mcp.newrelic.com (with EU and JP endpoints), read from docs.newrelic.com (overview, setup, tool reference, troubleshooting, NerdGraph limits, API keys, data retention, security policy, pre-release policy, what's new), newrelic.com (pricing, terms, privacy, leadership, press releases, security.txt), status.newrelic.com and its RSS feed, and the MCP registry on 3 November 2026. No account was used, no OAuth flow started and no tool called |
| Tools | Discovery (entities, dashboards, accounts, tags, metric names), data access (execute_nrql_query, natural_language_to_nrql_query), alerting (policies, conditions, incidents, issues, synthetics), incident response (deployment impact, alert and user impact reports, error groups, change events, error search), performance analytics (logs, golden metrics, threads, transactions, GC, performance risks, metric and log statistics, trace details), gap analysis against GitHub repositories, and preview tools for traces, dependencies and Kafka |
| Rate limits | 2,000 tool calls an hour per user on the MCP server, which the docs say may vary; NerdGraph guarantees 25 concurrent requests per user and answers 429 beyond that |
| Billing | Most tools metered as Core Compute Units (CCUs); `natural_language_to_nrql_query`, `generate_alert_insights_report`, `generate_user_impact_report` and `analyze_deployment_impact` as Advanced CCUs. Preview tools unpriced until GA |
| Access control | Organisation toggles in feature control manager (MCP server and local clients on by default; API keys, preview tools, Atlassian and AWS off by default), an organisation-scoped read role for the user, and the user's own account permissions on every call |
| Regions | US at mcp.newrelic.com, EU at mcp.eu.newrelic.com, JP at mcp.jp.newrelic.com |
| Data retention | Base retention 30 days with per-namespace defaults, up to 90 more days with Data Plus; the gap-analysis tool reads sent files in memory and the docs say responses aren't stored |
| Skills | Pre-built investigation skills (trace discovery, APM error investigation, NL2NRQL) in the newrelic/nr-skills-hub repository, and a Ground Truth CLI in limited preview since 8 October 2026 |
| Legal entity | New Relic, Inc., private since 8 November 2023 under Francisco Partners and TPG |
| Capabilities | observability.metrics, observability.logs, observability.errors, observability.traces, observability.incidents |
| Tags | hosted, freemium, free-tier, no-card, mcp, remote-mcp, mcp-registry, oauth, read-only-mode, llms-txt, status-page, security-txt, bug-bounty, soc2, eu-region, closed-source |
| JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/new-relic.json |

## Score breakdown (methodology v0.7, October 2026 research run)

Assessed 2026-11-03 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: medium. Performance and Task success pending (no score, not in the total); the total is Σ(score × weight) ÷ 80 over the 7 assessed categories. "This run" is each category's share of the 100 points.

| Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% | 20 | 60 | 12.0 |
| Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 51 | 8.3 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 59 | 9.6 |
| Security & auth | 14% | 17.5 | 76 | 13.3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 30 | 3.8 |
| Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 80 | 7.0 |
| Transparency & trust (editorial 63, provenance 98) | 7% | 8.8 | 81 | 7.1 |
| Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 |
| **Total** | | | | **61 → C** |

### Why each score

- Reliability 60 (checked 2026-11-03): 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.
- Performance: Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes.
- Schema & documentation 51 (checked 2026-11-03): 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.
- Agent ergonomics 59 (checked 2026-11-03): 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.
- Security & auth 76 (checked 2026-11-03): 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.
- Payments & pricing 30 (checked 2026-11-03): 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.
- Task success: Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored.
- Maintenance & community 80 (checked 2026-11-03): 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.
- Transparency & trust 81 (checked 2026-11-03): 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.

Fix list, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (15 items). What it covers is at https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/new-relic.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/new-relic.json). The whole list for a coding agent comes from `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/fix-list` with `{"listing": "new-relic", "plan": "read"}`, free while the beta runs

### What we couldn't check

- 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

### Sources

- MCP overview (auth, toggles, token security, audit queries): <https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/overview/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- MCP setup: <https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/setup/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- MCP tool reference: <https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/tool-reference/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- MCP troubleshooting: <https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/troubleshoot/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- public preview announcement: <https://docs.newrelic.com/whats-new/2025/11/whats-new-11-05-mcp-server/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- NerdGraph usage limits: <https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/nerdgraph/nerdgraph-usage-limits/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- API keys: <https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/intro-apis/new-relic-api-keys/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- data retention: <https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-apis/manage-data/manage-data-retention/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- security policy: <https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/licenses/license-information/referenced-policies/security-policy/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- pre-release policy: <https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/licenses/license-information/referenced-policies/new-relic-pre-release-policy/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- llms.txt: <https://docs.newrelic.com/llms.txt> (seen 2026-11-03)
- pricing: <https://newrelic.com/pricing> (seen 2026-11-03)
- paid terms of service: <https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/paid> (seen 2026-11-03)
- unpaid terms of service: <https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/unpaid> (seen 2026-11-03)
- privacy notice: <https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/privacy> (seen 2026-11-03)
- security.txt: <https://newrelic.com/.well-known/security.txt> (seen 2026-11-03)
- status page: <https://status.newrelic.com/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- status history feed: <https://status.newrelic.com/history.rss> (seen 2026-11-03)
- MCP registry entry: <https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=newrelic> (seen 2026-11-03)
- Ground Truth CLI press release: <https://newrelic.com/press-release/20261006-2> (seen 2026-11-03)
- take-private completion: <https://newrelic.com/press-release/20231108> (seen 2026-11-03)
- newsroom: <https://newrelic.com/about/newsroom> (seen 2026-11-03)
- RDAP for newrelic.com: <https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/newrelic.com> (seen 2026-11-03)
- robots.txt: <https://newrelic.com/robots.txt> (seen 2026-11-03)

## Score history

Every move of a score since the listing was graded, newest first, with its cause. A score can't move without an entry here. JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/new-relic/history.json

- 2026-11-03: graded 61 C (methodology 0.7)

## Who's behind it (provenance 98/100, checked 2026-11-03)

| Check | Finding | Points |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Legal entity named | New Relic, Inc. | 20/20 |
| Domain age | newrelic.com, registered 2006-04-19 (20 years) | 15/15 |
| Endpoint on the vendor's domain | mcp.newrelic.com | 15/15 |
| Terms of service | read, states 7 of the 7 things a reader expects, and has 1 clause that costs points | 8/10 |
| Privacy policy | read, states 8 of the 8 things a reader expects | 10/10 |
| Status page | status.newrelic.com | 10/10 |
| Changelog | published | 10/10 |
| security.txt | valid | 10/10 |
| People named | 4 named with their role, none with a public profile | 7/10 |
| Support route | help pages, a community | 5/5 |

The paid terms of service are dated 8 November 2022 and the unpaid terms 21 October 2021; the master cloud agreement path is disallowed by newrelic.com/robots.txt and wasn't read. The privacy notice is dated 14 September 2026.

newrelic.com/robots.txt disallows /signup/, /lp/, the master cloud agreement and a few files; /security redirected to trust.newrelic.com, which renders through a script and was not readable. docs.newrelic.com allows everything.

security.txt at newrelic.com/.well-known/security.txt points to HackerOne for contact and policy.

status.newrelic.com is an Atlassian Statuspage with 115 components across US, EU and JP; the history page needs JavaScript, so the 90-day record was read from history.rss, which holds 25 incidents back to 12 January 2026.

RDAP gives newrelic.com a registration date of 19 April 2006. firstReleased is 4 November 2025, the public preview date of the MCP server.

### Terms and privacy, as read

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice.

**Terms of service** (https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/paid), read 2026-11-03, dated 2022-11-08, states 7 of the 7 things a reader expects.

- To know. Restricts benchmarking or competitive use (costs points). "Customer will not (and will not permit anyone else to) do any of the following: (a) use the Service to develop a similar or competing product or service;"
- To know. Has not been updated for three years or more. "Last Updated: November 8, 2022"
- Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2022-11-08.
- Names the governing law or courts. The law of the State of California.
- States a limit on its liability. Capped at the fees paid in the 12 months before the claim.
- Says how changes to the terms are announced. Gives thirty days of notice before a change.
- Also in the text (2026-11-03). The Service may be used for internal business purposes only, and not on behalf of or to provide products or services to third parties. "(i) use the Service on behalf of, or to provide any product or service to, third parties."
- Also in the text (2026-11-03). Customers must not send Prohibited Data to the Service, including special category data, health information, payment card data, account credentials, government identifiers and precise geolocation. "Customer must not send any “Prohibited Data” to the Service, which means any: (1) special categories of data enumerated in European Union Regulation 2016/679, Article 9(1) or any successor legislation;"
- Also in the text (2026-11-03). New Relic's infringement indemnity does not apply if fees paid for the Service were under 100,000 US dollars in the preceding twelve months. "(4) if the total aggregate fees paid to New Relic for the Service is less than US$100,000 in the twelve (12) month period immediately preceding the claim;"

**Privacy policy** (https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/privacy), read 2026-11-03, dated 2026-09-14, states 8 of the 8 things a reader expects.

- Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2026-09-14.
- Says how long data is kept. For as long as needed, with no period named.
- Gives a privacy contact. Privacy@newrelic.com.
- Says where data is transferred or stored. Relies on standard contractual clauses.
- Also in the text (2026-11-03). The notice covers New Relic's websites and marketing, and data processed through the Services is covered by a separate Services Data Privacy Notice. "Want to learn how New Relic processes data when you use or interact with our Services? See our Services Data Privacy Notice."
- Also in the text (2026-11-03). Personal data collected at New Relic events may be shared with event sponsors and hosts for valuable consideration, for their own business purposes. "If you elect to do so, we may share Personal Data collected at New Relic events, such as FutureStack or New Relic’s seminars, with sponsors and hosts of such events, for valuable consideration from such sponsor or host to New Relic."

## Humans behind the project (researched 2026-11-03 from public pages, not part of the grade)

### Key people

- Lew Cirne, Founder
- Nandini Ramani, Chief Executive Officer
- Michael Frendo, Chief Technology Officer
- Brian Emerson, Chief Product Officer
- Note: These are New Relic's company people, not a team named for the MCP server; no New Relic page read names a lead for it. The leadership page of 3 November 2026 lists Nandini Ramani as CEO with the other executives, and the press release of 13 May 2021 names Lew Cirne as founder and CEO moving to Executive Chairman; no current page states his present role, so he is listed as Founder. Investors are the two firms that took the company private in November 2023; earlier venture rounds from the public-company years are not listed.
- New Relic: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-relic-inc- X https://x.com/newrelic GitHub https://github.com/newrelic

### Ownership and investors

- Backed by: Francisco Partners, TPG

### Getting support

- Help: https://support.newrelic.com/s/
- Help: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/troubleshoot/
- Community (Skills hub repository): https://github.com/newrelic/nr-skills-hub
- Sources: https://newrelic.com/about/leadership, https://newrelic.com/press-release/20261001, https://newrelic.com/press-release/20210513, https://newrelic.com/press-release/20231108, https://newrelic.com/about/newsroom, https://newrelic.com/about, https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/tool-reference/

## Live (updated 2026-11-04 20:05 UTC)

- Right now: up, HTTP 401, 371 ms, checked 2026-11-04 20:05 UTC (mcp-initialize on `https://mcp.newrelic.com/mcp/`, asks for auth)
- Uptime 24h 100.0% (48 probes) · 30 days 100.0% (48 probes) · p50 327 ms · p95 416 ms
- Vendor status page: none, All Systems Operational
- mcp-registry `com.newrelic/mcp-server` 0.1.0
- security.txt: valid
- Always current: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/live/new-relic.json

## Probe metrics

Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. Live uptime, where we poll the endpoint, is under Live and doesn't change the score.

## Prices

| Item | Price | Unit | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Data ingest beyond 100 GB a month | $0.40 | per GB of traffic | 100 GB a month free on every edition. User and compute prices are quoted on request |

Across all listings: https://www.anchorterminal.com/prices/index.md

## 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



## Before you call it (notes for agents)

1. Connect with OAuth; an `api-key` header reaches only the core tools and the docs say the API key route works only where stated
2. Send `include-tags` with the groups the task needs (for example `discovery,data-access`) to keep the tool list under 30
3. 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
4. Stay under 2,000 tool calls an hour per user and 25 concurrent NerdGraph requests; a 429 clears as in-flight requests finish
5. 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

## Connect

Claude Code:

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user newrelic https://mcp.newrelic.com/mcp/
```

MCP client configuration:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "newrelic": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.newrelic.com/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
```

Through letme: https://letme.dev/new-relic. letme answers with the pick and how to call it direct. How it works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/letme/index.md

## Similar tools

Ranked by shared capabilities, then score. Same-category tools with no shared capability key are listed last.

| Tool | Grade | Score | Rank | Shared capabilities | x402 | Markdown |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Axiom MCP Server | B | 68.2 | 264 | observability.logs, observability.traces, observability.metrics, observability.incidents, observability.errors | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axiom.md |
| Better Stack | C | 54.2 | 878 | observability.logs, observability.incidents, observability.metrics, observability.traces, observability.errors | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/better-stack.md |
| Grafana MCP Server | BB | 71 | 154 | observability.metrics, observability.logs, observability.traces, observability.incidents | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grafana-mcp-server.md |
| Datadog MCP Server | C | 56.8 | 766 | observability.metrics, observability.logs, observability.traces, observability.incidents | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datadog-mcp.md |
| Causely MCP server | E | 39.5 | 1218 | observability.incidents, observability.metrics, observability.logs, observability.errors | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/causely.md |
| Honeycomb MCP | C | 58.5 | 679 | observability.traces, observability.metrics, observability.logs | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeycomb-mcp.md |

## Panel reviews (0)

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## Notable

- 40 tools named in the tool reference, grouped by tag (discovery, data-access, alerting, incident-response, performance-analytics, advanced-analysis, gap-analysis, monitoring-analysis); an `include-tags` request header limits which groups the client receives (source: <https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/tool-reference/>)
- 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 (source: <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 (source: <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 (source: <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 (source: <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 (source: <https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=newrelic>)
- New Relic has been private since Francisco Partners and TPG completed their acquisition on 8 November 2023; Nandini Ramani became CEO on 1 October 2026 (source: <https://newrelic.com/press-release/20231108>)

- #5 of 11 in Best observability and incident tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/observability/index.md
- All 49 observability comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/observability/index.md

## Compare

- [Causely MCP server vs New Relic MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/causely-vs-new-relic.md): E 39.5 vs C 61
- [incident.io API vs New Relic MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/incident-io-vs-new-relic.md): B 68.9 vs C 61
- [New Relic MCP Server vs PagerDuty MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/new-relic-vs-pagerduty-mcp.md): C 61 vs D 48.6
- [New Relic MCP Server vs Rootly MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/new-relic-vs-rootly-mcp.md): C 61 vs C 59.8
- [Axiom MCP Server vs New Relic MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axiom-vs-new-relic.md): B 68.2 vs C 61
- [Better Stack vs New Relic MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/better-stack-vs-new-relic.md): C 54.2 vs C 61
- [Datadog MCP Server vs New Relic MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datadog-mcp-vs-new-relic.md): C 56.8 vs C 61
- [Grafana MCP Server vs New Relic MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grafana-mcp-server-vs-new-relic.md): BB 71 vs C 61
- [New Relic MCP Server vs Sentry MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/new-relic-vs-sentry-mcp.md): C 61 vs B 66.2
- [Honeycomb MCP vs New Relic MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeycomb-mcp-vs-new-relic.md): C 58.5 vs C 61

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