New Relic data dictionary

This data dictionary defines some of our default-reported data stored in NRDB and queryable via NRQL. This includes events like Transaction, MobileRequest, and BrowserInteraction, and our Metric, Log, and Span data types. These definitions are also available from our query builder UI by mousing over applicable data type and attribute names.

This dictionary doesn't contain:

  • Data from our infrastructure integrations (for that, see docs for a specific integration)
  • Custom data
  • Detailed integration-specific attributes for Metric data

ContainerSample

Data source:

This event is reported by the New Relic Infrastructure agent. It collects data from all the Docker containers on the host (which may or may not be running). It includes the container's ID, name, image, image name, and metrics about CPU, memory and networking. We take a snapshot of this data every 15 seconds for each container and package it into this event, which is then sent to New Relic. This data appears on the Containers UI page.

Attribute nameDefinitionData types
cpuKernelPercent
percentage (%)

CPU time percentage used in kernel space.