name: New Relic API Rate Limits
specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: New Relic
providerId: new-relic
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-04'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - Observability
description: New Relic NerdGraph and Insights API rate limits.
sources:
  - https://newrelic.com/pricing
  - https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-apis/manage-data/manage-data-coming-apis/
headers: {}
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: NerdGraph API
    scope: user-key
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: 3000
    timeFrame: minute
  - name: Insights query
    scope: account
    metric: queries_per_minute
    limit: 1000
    timeFrame: minute
  - name: Insights insert (events)
    scope: account
    metric: events_per_minute
    limit: 100000
    timeFrame: minute
  - name: Metric API
    scope: account
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: 100000
    timeFrame: minute