New Relic MCP: query observability data from your AI app

Getting New Relic into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect New Relic free and sign in with your New Relic account.
2. 2Queries over metrics, logs and traces only read. Switch off tools that create or delete alert policies or change notification channels if alerting should stay with your on-call team.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app for the error rate on your checkout service over the last hour, then open Activity to see the query.

Debugging with New Relic data

• Query metrics, logs and traces while you investigate an issue.
• Look up entities, applications and browser applications by name or host.
• Review alert policies and the conditions in each.
• List the channels alerts go to, such as email or webhooks.

Alerting stays as you set it

• Switch off alert policy and channel changes; they're hidden from your AI app and refused if called.
• Policies check every call and can hide personal data that turns up in logs.
• Activity keeps a record of every query your AI apps run.

What you get with New Relic and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use New RelicClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach New Relic through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any New Relic tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

New Relic tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in New Relic. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Create Alert Notification ChannelTool to create an alert notification channel. use when you need to register a new endpoint (email, webhook, etc.) for alert notifications.
• Create Alert PolicyTool to create an alert policy. use when you need to programmatically set up a new alert policy in new relic.
• Delete alert policyTool to delete an existing alert policy via rest api. use when you have the policy id and want to remove it via new relic's rest api. use after confirming the policy id exists.
• Get Alert ChannelsTool to retrieve a list of alert notification channels. use when you need to list all configured channels after verifying your api key.
• Get Alert ConditionsTool to retrieve alert conditions for a specified policy. use after you have the policy id.
• Get Alert PoliciesTool to retrieve a list of alert policies. use when you need to list existing alert policies with optional filtering and pagination.
• Get ApplicationsTool to retrieve a list of new relic applications. use when you need to list all applications or filter by name, host, or ids after authenticating your api key.
• Get Browser ApplicationsTool to list new relic browser applications. use when you need to retrieve all browser applications or filter by name after authenticating your api key.
• Update Alert Notification ChannelTool to update an existing new relic alert notification channel. use when you need to modify channel settings after verifying its id.