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

BrowserInteraction

Data source:

A BrowserInteraction represents a unit of work in a browser session, triggered by a user interacting with the webpage. It captures information about the session, AJAX calls and custom JavaScript timing that occurred as a result of the interaction. Initial load and route changes are captured as special types of browser interactions, and are used for SPA monitoring.

Attribute nameDefinitionData types
webAppDuration
seconds (s)

The total server-side response time for the top-level resource of the PageView or BrowserInteraction event (in seconds) as measured by the APM agent.

This does not include network time to transmit the request or receive the response, or server-side request queueing time. The webAppDuration is measured by the APM agent and must be injected into the browser monitoring script before the request is fully finished. Its end point is slightly before the end point used to calculate the duration attribute on Transactions, so webAppDuration will be slightly less than the duration attribute on Transactions in practice.