• METRICS
  • INVENTORY
  • DETAILS
  • HUMAN

How to check application health with your AI

Connect New Relic to your AI client to pull real-time performance data. Your agent handles the heavy lifting of data retrieval so you can focus on fixing issues.

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Short answer

How can I check my app health using AI?

Your AI pulls golden metrics like error rates and response times directly from your New Relic account. You get immediate summaries of your monitored entities to spot performance issues. This breakdown shows how your agent handles the data.

The outcomes.

Where your data lands.

The AI translates raw telemetry into clear answers.

METRICS

Instant health summaries

The AI pulls error rates and response times for specific entities. You get a clear picture of performance without opening a dashboard.

INVENTORY

Entity visibility

Your agent lists all monitored services and applications. This makes it easy to find the specific service causing trouble.

DETAILS

Deep dive data

The AI grabs technical metadata for a selected entity. You get the granular context needed to start a fix.

HUMAN

Manual decisions

The AI identifies the trends, but you decide how to fix the code or scale the infrastructure. It provides the facts, you provide the solution.

The workflow

What your AI does when the data arrives.

The AI acts as a bridge between your chat interface and your New Relic telemetry.

  1. Identify services

    The agent scans your account to find all active monitored entities.

    list_entities

  2. Summarize performance

    It pulls the golden metrics for a specific service to show current health status.

    get_apm_summary

  3. Fetch specifics

    The AI grabs deeper technical metadata for a selected entity to help with troubleshooting.

    get_entity_details

  4. Report findings

    The agent presents the error rates and latency trends in plain text for your review.

    get_apm_summary

Try it

Copy these to start.

Use these prompts to kick off your monitoring tasks.

Starting points

These are just ideas. Swap out the service names for your actual New Relic entities.

New Relic Connector

You're all set. Choose your MCP client and follow the setup instructions.

Connector linkhttps://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_Rk3fKfy2EBc5U3UTb8bGKnyj2pxBgzOIOazg0CbK/mcp

Claude Desktop

Follow the steps below to connect in seconds.

  1. 1In Claude Desktop, open Settings → Connectors.
  2. 2Click “Add custom connector” and paste the connector link above as the remote MCP server URL.
  3. 3Click Add and start a new chat — New Relic capabilities are ready to use.
Configuration · claude_desktop_config.jsonCopy
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "new-relic-mcp": {
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_Rk3fKfy2EBc5U3UTb8bGKnyj2pxBgzOIOazg0CbK/mcp"
    }
  }
}
Copy into chat04

  • List all my monitored entities in New Relic.

  • Give me an APM summary for the 'Payment Gateway' service.

  • What are the current error rates for my 'Auth-API' entity?

  • Get the details for the 'Frontend-Web' service to see its configuration.

  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Cursor
  • VS Code
  • Windsurf
  • Claude Code
  • JetBrains
  • Cline

Start here

Connect New Relic once, then ask.

Just click the link to connect your account. Your credentials stay encrypted, and you can immediately start chatting with your data.

Connect New Relic to your AI

FAQ

How this task behaves.

  • 01

    Can the AI change my New Relic alert settings?

    No. The AI can only read telemetry and entity data. It cannot modify your configurations or alerts.

  • 02

    Does the AI delete any monitored entities?

    No. This MCP is read-only for your APM data. It cannot delete or create new entities in New Relic.

  • 03

    Can I use this with Claude?

    Yes, as long as you are using an MCP-compatible client like Claude Desktop.

  • 04

    How does the AI know which service I'm talking about?

    It uses the list of entities it finds in your account to match your requests to real services.

  • 05

    Can the AI fix a high error rate automatically?

    No. The AI provides the summary and the data, but you have to perform the actual fix in your environment.

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