# New Relic MCP Server (slim)

> 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.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic.md (~8,600 tokens) · this version ~1,880 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-04 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**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

- Kind: MCP server · vendor: New Relic, Inc. · category: Observability & incidents · legal entity: New Relic, Inc. · provenance 98/100
- Endpoint: `https://mcp.newrelic.com/mcp/` (Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- 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
- Prices: Data ingest beyond 100 GB a month $0.40 per GB of traffic

- Scores: Reliability 60, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 51, Agent ergonomics 59, Security & auth 76, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 80, Transparency & trust 81 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Scored as a hosted MCP server. · Schema & documentation, Tool input schemas are only visible through an authenticated session; the tool reference names 40 tools with one-line descriptions, so parti… · Agent 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). · Security & auth, OAuth 2.0 with the scopes `observability:read`, `offline` and `offline_access`, access tokens that expire after 5 minutes, refresh for 24 ho… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, Read as a closed service. · Transparency & trust, Closed service with clear dated terms (paid 8 November 2022, unpaid 21 October 2021) naming New Relic, Inc.
- Sources: 24, open questions: 6, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: observability.metrics, observability.logs, observability.errors, observability.traces, observability.incidents
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/new-relic.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/new-relic.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic from a page on newrelic.com or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/newrelic/nr-skills-hub, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.
- Support: https://support.newrelic.com/s/; https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/troubleshoot/; more in the full twin

## Before you call it

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

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user newrelic https://mcp.newrelic.com/mcp/
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/new-relic

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