New Relic Ground TruthUnclaimed

Ground Truth is New Relic's operational intelligence layer. It uses Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools to organise your observability data so that AI agents can better understand your tech stack.

MCP is a standard way for AI models or agents to receive context about a specific system or environment. The New Relic MCP server lets supported AI agents call tools that help you query, investigate, or act on New Relic data in natural language. The page says this can help speed incident response and performance analysis.

The server is built for engineers and operations teams. You can access New Relic's MCP tools directly from a supported development environment without switching between AI tools. You can ask an agent to check alert statuses, generate alert event reports, or analyse how deployments affect your systems. You can also ask questions in plain English, and the server converts them into New Relic Query Language (NRQL), so you do not need to know NRQL to get results.

Supported MCP clients include Claude Code, Antigravity CLI, Codex, Kiro CLI, Claude Desktop and VS Code. Setup uses OAuth, which New Relic recommends, or a User API Key. Some tools, including AI-powered analysis tools and preview tools, are only available through OAuth.

An organisation administrator must turn on MCP access in feature control manager. The New Relic MCP Server toggle is the main switch, and Local Clients is enabled by default. Other toggles, such as API Keys and Preview Tools, are off by default and can be enabled as needed.

The page says the MCP server requires a New Relic account on a paid plan. Accounts with a paid data or compute plan can access core tools, and accounts with Advanced Compute can access all tools. MCP is not available to Free plan accounts. Node.js is required for some authentication methods.

Access tokens expire five minutes after they are issued and refresh automatically. Users must sign in again after 24 hours or if an administrator revokes access. An administrator can revoke one user by deleting them in user management, or turn off the MCP Server toggle to revoke access for the whole organisation.

The documentation also includes NRQL queries that show sign-ins and the queries sent through the MCP server, so administrators can review activity.