New Relic
Platform & Telemetry Data Platform
See how New Relic funnels every signal into one database queried by NRQL.
New Relic is a SaaS observability platform whose defining idea is a single telemetry database. Metrics, events, logs, and traces — the "MELT" signals — all land in NRDB, the New Relic Database, as events with attributes. Because everything shares one store and one query language, you are not stuck switching tools to correlate a log with a trace or a metric; you query across them in NRQL.
One giant searchable journal where every kind of note — receipts, photos, letters — is filed in the same book with tags, so any cross-reference is just another search rather than opening five filing cabinets.
Key Concepts
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Data arrives through language agents (APM, browser, mobile), infrastructure agents, and open standards: New Relic ingests OpenTelemetry and Prometheus remote_write directly. Pricing is consumption-based — you pay for data ingested (per GB) and for the users who query it, rather than per host — which changes how teams think about what to send. The platform layers curated experiences (APM, infrastructure, logs, browser/RUM, synthetics) on top of that one database.