newrelic-cli-skills

name	newrelic-cli-skills
description	Monitor, query, and manage New Relic observability data via the newrelic CLI. Covers NRQL queries, APM performance triage, deployment markers, alert policy and condition management, notification channel setup, infrastructure monitoring, and agent diagnostics. Use when user asks about application performance, error rates, slow transactions, deployment tracking, alert configuration, or New Relic setup.
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New Relic CLI Skills

Quick Decision Tree

Performance issue reported? → apm/SKILL.md Need to query data with NRQL? → nrql/SKILL.md Recording a deployment? → deployments/SKILL.md Alert management? → alerts/SKILL.md Infrastructure/host issues? → infrastructure/SKILL.md Agent not reporting? → diagnostics/SKILL.md

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Setup & Auth

# Install (manual or package manager)
# macOS (Homebrew)
brew 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   # or EU

newrelic profile default --profile default

# Verify
newrelic profile list

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Common One-Liners

# 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

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Entity Reference

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

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

# Get specific entity details
newrelic entity 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 or EU

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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
deployments/	Mark releases, correlate deploys with performance
alerts/	Alert policies, conditions, notification channels
infrastructure/	Host metrics, CPU/memory, process monitoring
diagnostics/	Agent health, config validation, connectivity

Bundled Guidance

The package contains the six sub-skills listed above. It does not bundle helper scripts or a separate references directory. Use the inline CLI and NRQL examples in the relevant sub-skill, inspect newrelic --help for the installed CLI version, and adapt commands to the user's account and region.