New Relic

Connect an agent to New Relic's MCP server for entities, NRQL queries, alerts and logs, using a User API key.

New Relic hosts its own MCP server, which gives an agent access to your New Relic entities, NRQL queries, alerts and logs. It authenticates with a New Relic API key sent in the Api-Key header — ilert pre-fills that header for you.

Prerequisites

• A New Relic account and a User API key, created as described in New Relic's Setup guide
• The data-centre region your account lives in (US or EU)

The endpoint is fixed per region and derived from your selection, so there is no URL field:

Region	MCP endpoint
US (mcp.newrelic.com)	https://mcp.newrelic.com/mcp/
EU (mcp.eu.newrelic.com)	https://mcp.eu.newrelic.com/mcp/

Create the connector

1

Navigate to Connectors in the ilert navigation menu

2

Scroll to the MCP Servers section and click Connect on the New Relic MCP Server card

3

Fill in the dialog:

• Name: a name for the connector (defaults to "New Relic MCP")
• New Relic region: your account's region (defaults to US)
• API key: the New Relic User API key

4

Click Test connection to confirm the key works and the tools can be listed

5

Click Save

The region must match the account the API key belongs to. An EU account key used against the US endpoint fails authentication.

Connect MCP server with agent

To connect New Relic with your AI SRE agent:

1

Navigate to Agents in the ilert navigation menu

2

Open the agent detail view for the agent you want to configure

3

Go to the Tools tab

4

Under the External MCP Servers section, locate the New Relic MCP Server row

5

Click Connect

6

In the dialog, choose the New Relic connector you created under Select connector (or create one here — the same region and API key fields appear)

7

Click Add

8

Expand the server card to load its tools and enable the ones the agent may use, then save the agent

The New Relic integration is now connected and ready to use for root cause analysis.