OBSERVABILITY / New Relic
New Relic MCP
Hosted New Relic server at mcp.newrelic.com exposing entity lookup, alerting, incident response, NRQL and deployment-impact tools over Streamable HTTP. OAuth is the documented default; organisation admins gate access through feature-control toggles and an include-tags header filters which tool families a client receives.
“MCP is a standard way for AI models or agents to receive relevant information (context) about a specific system or environment.”
01 / THE REASONING
Why this made the selection.
- New Relic documents organisation-level gating for the hosted server: feature-control-manager toggles, an organisation role with permission to read the MCP server, and per-request tool filtering with the include-tags header.
- The overview documents a natural_language_to_nrql_query tool that turns plain-English questions into NRQL, alongside alert-insight, user-impact and deployment-impact report tools (all OAuth-only).
02 / THE REVIEW RECORD
What we actually inspected.
Source review has boundaries.
A clear record is more useful than a “safe” badge.
Material inspected
- New Relic MCP overview docs, read 2026-10-13: supported clients, prerequisites, organisation role and feature-control-manager toggles (MCP Server and Local Clients on by default, others off), OAuth endpoints and scopes, API-key alternative and the OAuth-only tool list.
- New Relic MCP setup guide, read 2026-10-13: endpoint https://mcp.newrelic.com/mcp/, per-client configuration for Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity CLI, Kiro CLI, Claude Desktop and VS Code, and the include-tags header for filtering tool families.
- newrelic/mcp-server repository README at pinned revision 73e3cd4505e1320187feaf666b50f3e438f6a060 (still the default-branch head on 2026-10-13): a documentation pointer describing the hosted server and tool categories, with setup delegated to the docs.
Our findings
- The repository contains no server code or licence file; the served artefact is the hosted endpoint, so the record follows the hosted-successor precedent with repository null.
- Tool categories include entity and account management, alerting and monitoring, incident response, performance analytics, NRQL data access and deployment-impact analysis.
- The transport is recorded as Streamable HTTP from the setup guide's claude mcp add --transport http command and its type http blocks; the docs do not name the transport.
- Corrected 2026-10-13: this record said an administrator must enable the MCP Server and Local Clients toggles before anyone can connect; the overview now says both are enabled by default.
- configExample is the setup guide's Claude Code ~/.claude.json block. Corrected 2026-10-13: the earlier example merged it with the include-tags header, which the guide shows as a separate fragment.
Not established by this review
- No OAuth flow or API-key connection was completed and no NRQL query was executed.
The review applies to the material and revision named here. A newer upstream release can change its behavior.
03 / PUT IT TO WORK
Connect a server deliberately.
- Check that the New Relic MCP Server and Local Clients toggles are still on in feature control manager (on by default); ask an administrator to enable API Keys or Preview Tools if needed.
- Add https://mcp.newrelic.com/mcp/ as an HTTP MCP server in the client and complete the browser OAuth flow.
- Optionally set the include-tags header to expose only the tool families the workflow needs.
Before you start
- A New Relic account with an organisation role that permits MCP read access.
- Node.js where the client needs the mcp-remote proxy (Claude Desktop).
Documented configuration example
Use the client and authentication context described in the setup guidance. Configuration formats vary between hosts.
{
"mcpServers": {
"newrelic": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.newrelic.com/mcp/"
}
}
}04 / FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE
The source trail.
Our notes are separate from the original resource.
Check upstream before adopting a new version.
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/overview
Supports: summary, upstreamDescription, access, compatibility, whySelected, limitations, review
- New Relic MCP setup guide ↗Checked
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/setup/
Supports: install, configExample, transports, compatibility, limitations
https://github.com/newrelic/mcp-server/blob/73e3cd4505e1320187feaf666b50f3e438f6a060/README.md
Supports: bestFor, limitations