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What is New Relic?

Direct Answer: New Relic bot, operated by New Relic, monitors customer applications for availability and performance issues.

Operator: New Relic Type: Monitoring Bot Purpose: Application performance and availability monitoring

The New Relic bot is used by New Relic's Intelligent Observability Platform to monitor customer applications for availability and performance issues. It does so with a user-agent string of 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NewRelicbot/2.1; +http://www.newrelic.com)'. The bot's behavior is designed to support the platform's monitoring capabilities.

User-Agent Identification

The following user-agent strings identify New Relic in your live traffic data:

  • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NewRelicbot/2.1; +http://www.newrelic.com)

robots.txt Rules for New Relic

Respects robots.txt: No

This bot does not commit to following robots.txt

New Relic does not officially follow robots.txt directives. The only reliable way to control access is through server-side blocking (IP filtering, user-agent rules in your web server config) combined with log monitoring to verify effectiveness.

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Crawl Behavior

Frequency:Continuous

Request Pattern:Not Documented

Crawl Activity Index

Relative crawl activity for New Relic over the past 28 days. Higher values indicate increased crawling intensity compared to the period baseline.

View recent activity data (last 7 days)
Date Activity Index
Mar 26, 2026 88.0
Mar 27, 2026 82.7
Mar 28, 2026 83.1
Mar 29, 2026 81.8
Mar 30, 2026 87.3
Mar 31, 2026 90.2
Apr 1, 2026 88.8

Source: Cloudflare Radar

Why track New Relic traffic?

Distinguish monitoring traffic from real crawler activity. New Relic checks your site availability at regular intervals. Without proper identification, these requests can inflate your bot traffic metrics and distort crawl analysis.

Validate monitoring coverage. Track which pages New Relic checks and how frequently, so your monitoring setup matches your infrastructure requirements.

Log Verification

To verify New Relic traffic in your live traffic data:

  1. Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
  2. Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by New Relic)
  3. Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
  4. Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available

Note: Observed behavior in production environments may differ from official documentation. Live traffic monitoring provides the only reliable verification of actual bot behavior.

Undocumented Information

The following information is not officially documented for New Relic:

  • crawl frequency details
  • request pattern
  • JavaScript rendering details
  • IP verification URL

Official Documentation

View Official New Relic Documentation →

Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.