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

SystemSample

Data source:

The SystemSample event aggregates data describing the current overall state of the entire server. This data appears in the New Relic Infrastructure Hosts page to show usage trends for the associated host's main resources. These resources include CPU, memory, disk, and network. New Relic samples this data every 5 seconds and packages it into a SystemSample event, then sends the raw data to New Relic's collectors.

Attribute nameDefinitionData types
timestamp

The time (date, hour, minute, second) at which the interaction occurred.