--- title: "New Relic MCP: review, setup & limitations · Undominated.ai" canonical: https://undominated.ai/mcp-servers/newrelic/ description: "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." --- # New Relic MCP: review, setup & limitations · Undominated.ai > 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. [← Explore all mcp servers](/mcp-servers/) 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. [See setup guidance ↓](#setup)[Original source ↗](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/overview) SOURCE REVIEW Reviewed 2026-10-13 Evidence 3 linked sources Publisher New Relic Licence Not established [Read what was—and wasn’t—checked ↓](#review) “MCP is a standard way for AI models or agents to receive relevant information (context) about a specific system or environment.” [New Relic · upstream description ↗](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/overview) Our analysis follows below. 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). ### A good fit for - Querying telemetry, checking alert statuses and analysing deployment impact on New Relic data in natural language. - Incident response workflows that need entity lookup, recent issues and golden metrics without writing NRQL by hand. ### Weigh up before choosing - In feature control manager the New Relic MCP Server and Local Clients toggles are on by default; the API Keys, Preview Tools, Atlassian and AWS toggles stay off until an administrator enables them. - AI-powered analysis tools and preview tools are OAuth-only, so API-key setups receive a reduced tool surface; the setup guide says API-key setups will not work as described unless a client's section says otherwise (Antigravity CLI is API-key only). - The setup guide warns that the AI acts in the New Relic account on the user's behalf and asks for accounts with least-privilege RBAC. 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. [Upstream setup instructions ↗](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/setup/) - 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/" } } } Copy configuration ↗ ### Compatibility Documented clients: Claude Code, Claude Desktop (through the mcp-remote proxy), Codex, VS Code, Kiro CLI and Antigravity CLI (API key only). · A New Relic account with an organisation role permitted to read the MCP server. ### Transports Streamable HTTP ### New Relic OAuth or user API key - OAuth grants the observability:read, offline and offline_access scopes; API-key setups cannot reach the AI-powered analysis or preview tools. - Organisation admins control access with feature toggles and can filter exposed tools per request via include-tags. ### Cost model Included with New Relic accounts; all-data and CCU users get core tools and aCCU users get all tools. 04 / FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE ## The source trail. Our notes are separate from the original resource. Check upstream before adopting a new version. - [New Relic MCP overview documentation ↗](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/overview) Checked 2026-10-13 https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/overview Supports: summary, upstreamDescription, access, compatibility, whySelected, limitations, review - [New Relic MCP setup guide ↗](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/setup/) Checked 2026-10-13 https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/setup/ Supports: install, configExample, transports, compatibility, limitations - [newrelic/mcp-server repository README at pinned revision ↗](https://github.com/newrelic/mcp-server/blob/73e3cd4505e1320187feaf666b50f3e438f6a060/README.md) Checked 2026-10-13 https://github.com/newrelic/mcp-server/blob/73e3cd4505e1320187feaf666b50f3e438f6a060/README.md Supports: bestFor, limitations KEEP COMPARING ## Other approaches to consider. Related by category or shared topics. These are alternatives to inspect, not a measured quality order. [### Checkly MCP Server ↗ Checkly's hosted MCP server over Streamable HTTP: inspect check status and results, test sessions, RCA and result assets, trigger deployed checks, manage monitors and groups, environment variables and status-page incidents. OAuth is recommended; user and service API keys are the documented alternatives.](/mcp-servers/checkly/)[### Datadog MCP ↗ Query Datadog telemetry and operate permitted monitoring resources from an authenticated AI client.](/mcp-servers/datadog/)[### Grafana MCP Server ↗ Connects dashboards, logs, metrics and related Grafana data sources to an assistant, with separate controls for writes and query execution.](/mcp-servers/grafana/) [AI Tools ↗](/tools/)[Skills ↗](/skills/)[Agents ↗](/agents/)[MCP Servers ↗](/mcp-servers/)[Workflows ↗](/workflows/) ## Continue your investigation - [Inspect resource evidence](/tools/) - [Choose a host](/agents/) - [Inspect reusable workflows](/skills/) - [Use Undominated data](/api/)