New Relic MCP Server

Add to your client

Copy the config for your MCP client and paste it into its config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "new-relic-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "newrelic-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NEWRELIC_REGION": "US",
        "NEWRELIC_API_KEY": "<your-user-api-key>",
        "NEWRELIC_ACCOUNT_ID": "<your-account-id>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Before you start

• Python 3.10 or newer
• A New Relic User API key (starts with NRAK), created from New Relic's API Keys page after logging in
• Your New Relic account ID and region (US/EU), set via NEWRELIC_API_KEY, NEWRELIC_ACCOUNT_ID, and NEWRELIC_REGION (or stored in the macOS keychain)
• An MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.); the server runs locally over stdio

About New Relic MCP Server

Tools & capabilities (12)

When to use it

• Use it when you want to run NRQL queries against your telemetry in natural language
• Use it when you need to find an entity (app, host, service) and pull its current metrics
• Use it when you want to record a deployment marker as part of a CI/release workflow
• Use it when you need to review alert policies or Synthetics monitors during an incident
• Use it when you want to author and test log-parsing rules without hand-writing Grok
• Use it when a dedicated tool is missing and you want raw NerdGraph access to the full API

Quick setup

1. 1Create a User API key (NRAK...) from New Relic's API Keys page
2. 2Install the server with `pip install newrelic-mcp-server`
3. 3Set NEWRELIC_API_KEY, NEWRELIC_ACCOUNT_ID, and NEWRELIC_REGION (or store the key in the macOS keychain)
4. 4Add the server to your MCP client config as a stdio command
5. 5Restart your client and verify by asking the agent to list applications or run a simple NRQL query

New Relic MCP Server FAQ