New Relic CLI Skills

Monitor, query, and manage New Relic observability data via the newrelic CLI. Covers NRQL queries, AI Monitoring telemetry, APM performance triage, deployment markers, read-only alert and incident inspection, infrastructure monitoring, agent diagnostics, and identity/access administration. Use when user asks about LLM token usage or AI application telemetry, application performance, error rates, slow transactions, deployment tracking, incident inspection, New Relic setup, users, groups, roles, permissions, or access grants.

Quick Decision Tree

Performance issue reported? → apm/SKILL.md Need to query data with NRQL? → nrql/SKILL.md AI/LLM application, token, error, prompt, or response telemetry? → aimonitoring/SKILL.md Recording a deployment? → deployments/SKILL.md Inspecting alerts or incidents? → alerts/SKILL.md Infrastructure/host issues? → infrastructure/SKILL.md Agent not reporting? → diagnostics/SKILL.md Users, groups, roles, permissions, or access grants? → iam/SKILL.md

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Setup & Auth

bash

# Install (manual or package manager)
# macOS (Homebrew)
brew install newrelic-cli

# Windows (Scoop)
scoop bucket add newrelic-cli https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-cli.git
scoop install newrelic-cli

# Or manually download a release archive from:
# https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-cli/releases
# Extract it, place the `newrelic` binary on your PATH, then verify with:
newrelic --version

# Configure profile
newrelic profile add \
  --profile "default" \
  --apiKey $NEW_RELIC_API_KEY \
  --accountId $NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID \
  --region US   # US, EU, JP, GOV, or FEDRAMP (alias for GOV)

newrelic profile default --profile "default"

# Verify
newrelic profile list --format JSON

For structured profile discovery, pass --format JSON explicitly. The isDefault field identifies the persisted default profile, and profile names are emitted without terminal decoration. It does not necessarily identify the effective credentials: the global --profile flag can select another profile, while NEW_RELIC_API_KEY, NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID, NEW_RELIC_REGION, and NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY override the corresponding stored profile fields.

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Common One-Liners

bash

# Search for an entity by name
newrelic entity search --name "my-app"

# Run a NRQL query
newrelic nrql query --accountId $NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID \
  --query "SELECT average(duration) FROM Transaction WHERE appName='my-app' SINCE 1 hour ago"

# Record a deployment
newrelic apm deployment create \
  --applicationId <APP_ID> \
  --revision "v1.2.3" \
  --description "Feature: user auth"

# Run diagnostics
newrelic diagnose run

# Find applications reporting AI Monitoring telemetry
newrelic aimonitoring application search

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Entity Reference

Find entity GUIDs (needed for API calls and deployment markers):

bash

# List all APM apps
newrelic entity search --name "" --type APPLICATION --domain APM

# Get APM application details
newrelic apm application get --guid <GUID>

# List all hosts
newrelic entity search --name "" --type HOST

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Environment Variables

Variable	Description
NEW_RELIC_API_KEY	User key (NRAK-...)
NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID	Numeric account ID
NEW_RELIC_REGION	US, EU, JP, GOV, or FEDRAMP (FEDRAMP is an alias for GOV)

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Sub-Skills

Sub-skill	When to use
apm/	Performance triage, slow transactions, error analysis
nrql/	Custom queries, dashboards, ad-hoc data exploration
aimonitoring/	AI/LLM applications, token usage, errors, prompts, responses, and telemetry
deployments/	Mark releases, correlate deploys with performance
alerts/	Read-only incident telemetry and entity alert severity
infrastructure/	Host metrics, CPU/memory, process monitoring
diagnostics/	Agent health, config validation, connectivity
iam/	Users, groups, memberships, roles, permissions, and access grants

Scripts

Script	Purpose
scripts/check-performance.sh	Quick health check across all apps
scripts/deployment-marker.sh	Record a deployment event
scripts/top-slow-transactions.sh	Find the 10 slowest transactions
scripts/error-report.sh	Recent errors with stack traces

References

• references/nrql-patterns.md — Common NRQL query patterns
• references/performance-triage.md — Step-by-step triage guide