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

ProcessSample

Data source:

ProcessSample event gathers detailed resource usage information from programs running on a single system. New Relic samples the data every 20 seconds for every active process and packages it into a ProcessSample event, which then sends the raw data to New Relic's collectors.

Attribute nameDefinitionData types
processDisplayName

The display name (friendly name) of the process.

This is derived from the command name by default, but if it can be determined that the process is associated with a service from the inventory system, New Relic uses the service name. Another source of the name may be a parsed component of the command line, if it is a known command line format (for example, Java app).