New Relic Automation

Automate your New Relic observability workflows -- create and manage alert policies, configure notification channels (email, Slack, webhook, PagerDuty), monitor APM applications, inspect alert conditions, and integrate New Relic alerting into cross-app pipelines.

Toolkit docs: composio.dev/toolkits/new_relic

Setup

1. Add the Composio MCP server to your client: https://rube.app/mcp
2. Connect your New Relic account when prompted (API key authentication)
3. Start using the workflows below

Core Workflows

1. List Alert Policies

Use NEW_RELIC_GET_ALERT_POLICIES to discover existing alert policies with optional filtering.

Tool: NEW_RELIC_GET_ALERT_POLICIES
Inputs:
  - name: string (optional, partial match supported)
  - incident_preference: "PER_POLICY" | "PER_CONDITION" | "PER_CONDITION_AND_TARGET"
  - page: integer (1-indexed pagination)

2. Create an Alert Policy

Use NEW_RELIC_CREATE_ALERT_POLICY to set up a new policy container for alert conditions.

Tool: NEW_RELIC_CREATE_ALERT_POLICY
Inputs:
  - name: string (required) -- must be unique within the account
  - incident_preference: "PER_POLICY" | "PER_CONDITION" | "PER_CONDITION_AND_TARGET" (default: PER_POLICY)

Incident preferences explained:

• PER_POLICY -- one issue per policy (recommended for most use cases)
• PER_CONDITION -- one issue per alert condition
• PER_CONDITION_AND_TARGET -- one issue per condition and signal/target

3. Create Alert Notification Channels

Use NEW_RELIC_CREATE_ALERT_CHANNEL to register notification endpoints for alert delivery.

Tool: NEW_RELIC_CREATE_ALERT_CHANNEL
Inputs:
  - type: "email" | "slack" | "webhook" | "pagerduty" | "opsgenie" | "victorops" (required)
  - name: string (required) -- human-readable channel name
  - configuration: object (required) -- varies by type:
    Email:     { recipients: "[email protected],[email protected]" }
    Slack:     { url: "<slack_webhook_url>", channel: "alerts" }
    Webhook:   { url: "https://hooks.example.com/alerts", auth_username, auth_password }
    PagerDuty: { service_key: "<integration_key>" }
    OpsGenie:  { api_key, recipients, tags, teams }
    VictorOps: { key: "<api_key>", route_key: "<routing_key>" }

4. Get Alert Conditions for a Policy

Use NEW_RELIC_GET_ALERT_CONDITIONS to inspect the conditions attached to a specific policy.

Tool: NEW_RELIC_GET_ALERT_CONDITIONS
Inputs:
  - policy_id: integer (required)

5. Monitor Applications

Use NEW_RELIC_GET_APPLICATIONS and NEW_RELIC_GET_BROWSER_APPLICATIONS to list APM and browser-monitored apps.

Tool: NEW_RELIC_GET_APPLICATIONS
Inputs:
  - name: string (optional, case-insensitive partial match)
  - host: string (optional, case-insensitive partial match)
  - ids: string (optional, comma-separated list of app IDs)
  - page: integer (1-indexed)

Tool: NEW_RELIC_GET_BROWSER_APPLICATIONS
Inputs:
  - filter[name]: string (optional, case-insensitive partial match)
  - page: integer (1-indexed)

6. Manage Channels and Policies

Use NEW_RELIC_UPDATE_ALERT_CHANNEL to modify existing channels and NEW_RELIC_DELETE_ALERT_POLICY to remove policies.

Tool: NEW_RELIC_UPDATE_ALERT_CHANNEL
Inputs:
  - alert_channel_id: integer (required)
  - name: string (optional)
  - type: string (optional, only to change type)
  - configuration: object (optional, fields vary by type)

Tool: NEW_RELIC_DELETE_ALERT_POLICY
Inputs:
  - policy_id: string (required) -- ID of the policy to delete

Known Pitfalls

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