What is New Relic?
New Relic is a developer helper operated by New Relic. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when New Relic visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | New Relic |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | No |
| Insights Last Updated | September 15, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
New Relic's traffic often follows fixed intervals like a cron job. Activity may consist of short recurring checks or occasional intensive bursts, but it usually remains limited to a specific set of pages or endpoints.
How To Block New Relic With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to request that New Relic not access your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to request the same of all developer helpers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: New Relic # https://knownagents.com/agents/new-relic
Disallow: /Insights for New Relic
As of September 15, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
7% of top websites block New Relic in their robots.txts.
Overall Developer Helper Traffic
0.8% of all web traffic came from developer helpers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block New Relic?
Only if no one on your team relies on it. New Relic may support uptime monitoring, performance tests, or audits. Blocking it without checking first can silently disrupt those workflows. For context, 7% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for New Relic.
Does New Relic Follow Robots.txt Rules?
No. New Relic is not expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule only communicates your preference. Enforce the block with firewall or server rules, then use Agent Analytics to verify that its requests stop.
Does New Relic Access Private Content?
Only when configured with access. A team may grant New Relic credentials to monitor staging sites or private health endpoints. Without those credentials, it sees only public pages.
How Can I Tell if New Relic Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks New Relic visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "New Relic". Look for repeated checks of the same pages or endpoints at regular intervals. Because New Relic does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
Why Is New Relic Visiting My Website?
Someone, most likely on your own team, configured New Relic to check your site. Uptime monitors, performance testers, and audit tools visit only the sites or endpoints they are told to watch.