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Do AI agents pick New Relic?

How often agents choose New Relic when a developer needs error monitoring — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

New Relic

#3 of 6 observability
0%Pick Rate
95% CI 0%2%

When developers ask an AI agent for observability, New Relic is picked 0% of the time — ranking #3 of 6 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 0% Named, not picked 36% Never surfaced 64%

Beaten by Sentry (60%), Datadog (3%).

Awareness

1.8M package downloads / week

Known but not preferred — widely used, but agents pick competitors. That's a preference problem, not awareness.

12 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 1.9K URLs in Common Crawl

Present in the raw crawl and the filtered corpus models train on — solid corpus footprint.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

6.9M installs / month flat

Installs are roughly flat month over month.

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About New Relic

New Relic is an observability platform for monitoring application performance and infrastructure.

New Relic collects telemetry data—metrics, events, logs, and traces—from your applications and services, giving developers and operations teams visibility into how their software behaves in production. It supports a wide range of languages and frameworks through instrumentation agents, including a Node.js agent that automatically tracks performance data from your running application. The platform is aimed at development and DevOps teams who need to diagnose performance issues, track errors, and understand system behavior at runtime.

Where to start

Start by creating a New Relic account, then install the appropriate language agent (such as the Node.js `newrelic` package), add your license key and application name to the configuration file, and load the agent when your application starts. The official Node.js agent documentation provides a full introduction and configuration reference.

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