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Understand New Relic data limits

To ensure our systems are always up and ready to support you, and to keep you from unintended use, we place limits on the amount of data you can send, query, and store.

Limits UI

To find the limits UI: from the user menu, click Manage your data and click Limits.

This UI displays information about how close an account is to hitting rate limits (both data ingest-related limits and query limits), and incidents of those limits. The data displayed here is generated from:

The limits UI displays information related to an account's data ingest rate and query rate, and incidents of limits.

What the color-coding in the incident table means:

  • Red: exceeded a limit
  • Yellow: 80-100% of a limit
  • Green: below 80%
  • Gray: limits that don't have reported usage or incidents for the given time range

Some tips on using the limits UI:

  • To get more detail about a table entry, try clicking it. Some entries have more detail, including associated NRQL queries.
  • When you select a time range greater than six hours, the chart uses average values, which may smooth out spikes. This is the reason you may see the message "For the time window chosen, the 'Max limit usage' value represents the average of your usage limits." To see more accurate results, use a time range below six hours.
  • It's possible for the use of a resource to be over a limit while not generating an incident. For example, query limit events are generated for a one-minute level, but incidents are only generated for continually exceeding that limit at the 5-minute level.

If you want more detail than the UI provides, see Query your resource use.

Responses to limit incidents

Limits are enforced per account (not per organization). You might reach a limit if you start monitoring a new high-traffic application, or have a sudden data spike. When you do reach a limit, New Relic responds according to the type of data and the limit that's reached. Some examples of responses:

  • We place a limit on the number of ingested requests per minute (RPM) per data type. When this limit is reached, we stop accepting data and return a 429 status code for the duration of the minute.
  • For queries, we place limits on the number of queries per minute and the number of records inspected (see NRQL query rate limits).
  • For metrics, we place a limit on the number of unique timeseries (cardinality) per account and per metric. When this limit is reached, aggregated data is turned off for the rest of the UTC day.

For every major limit incident, New Relic creates an NrIntegrationError event for that account, which has these limit-related attributes:

Attribute

Description

category

RateLimit or ApiLimit. The RateLimit category is used for limits based on a unit of time such as the number of requests ingested per minute. The ApiLimit is used for constant limits, such as the number of attributes on a record.

limitName

The name of the limit.

message

Describes the limit and the impact.

limitValue

The limit reached.

Account-level limits

This table includes general max limits that apply across all New Relic accounts. Specific New Relic tools, like agents and integrations, have their own limits and configurations, and those limits will sometimes be lower than these theoretical account-level maximum limits.

Limited condition

Limit

Rate of NRDB record* ingest

55 million per account per minute

Max NRDB records* ingested per API call

1MB (10^6 bytes)

Max attribute value size

1KB (10^3 bytes)

Max attribute name length

255 characters

Max attribute value length

Metric, Trace, and Event API: 4096 characters. Log API: 4094 characters.

Max payload size

1MB (10^6 bytes)

Max total attributes per data type (including default attributes)

254 (less for some tools; for example, 64 for agents)

Number of unique custom data types per account per namespace per day

250 (primarily a limit for custom events)

APM limits

  • Agent instances: 50K per account
  • Agent instances per app: 10K

Browser: number of page views

1M per minute per app

Rate of metric timeslice data (used by APM, browser, )

  • Ingest: 2 million per minute
  • Rate of names: 4 million per minute per account
  • Number per monitored app: 300K

Distributed tracing

See Trace limits.

Infrastructure agents, integrations

  • Gross number of new monitored containers: 5K per hour per account
  • Gross number of new monitored entities from Cloud integrations (AWS, Azure, GCP): 30K per hour, per account
  • AWS Metric Streams - Kinesis Data Firehose requests per minute: 50

Mobile monitoring: number of crashes reported

10K per hour

Synthetic monitors

See synthetics limits.

Query limits

See NRQL query limits

Alert query limits

See Alerting rules and limits

* NRDB records refers to database records for our core data types, which includes events, metrics (dimensional), logs, and distributed tracing (span) data, all stored in the New Relic database (NRDB). This does not include metric timeslice data.

Data ingest API limits

Our ingest APIs have additional limits that may override the more general account-level limits. Note that these limits also apply for our tools that use these APIs.

NerdGraph API limits

See NerdGraph usage limits.

Finding other agent and integration limits

To find limits for our other agents and integrations, which will override more general account-level limits, see the docs for those tools: you can search our quickstarts here. Some default reporting limits are located in these tools' configuration docs.

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