New Relic Instance API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: New Relic Event Alerts Instance API
  description: The New Relic Event API allows you to send custom event data to the New Relic platform via HTTP POST. Custom events submitted through this API can be queried and visualized using NRQL, making it suitable for tracking arbitrary business or application events. Each event is a JSON object with an eventType and any number of additional attribute key-value pairs.
  version: '1'
  contact:
    name: New Relic Support
    url: https://support.newrelic.com/
  termsOfService: https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/terms
  x-last-validated: '2026-04-18'
servers:
- url: https://insights-collector.newrelic.com
  description: US Production
- url: https://insights-collector.eu01.nr-data.net
  description: EU Production
security:
- apiKey: []
tags:
- name: Instance
paths:
  /applications/{application_id}/instances/{instance_id}/metrics.json:
    get:
      tags:
      - Instance
      summary: New Relic Get Applications Instances Instance Metrics
      description: '<p>Return a list of known metrics and their value names for the given resource.</p>


        <p>See our documentation for a discussion

        on <a href="https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/rest-api-v2/requirements/pagination-api-output" target="_blank"> output pagination</a>

        and for examples of <a href="https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/rest-api-v2/requirements/new-relic-rest-api-v2-getting-started#examples" target="_blank">requesting and using metric values</a>.</p>

        '
      parameters:
      - name: application_id
        in: path
        description: Application ID
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 100
      - name: instance_id
        in: path
        description: Application Instance ID
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 100
      - name: name
        in: query
        description: Filter metrics by name
        schema:
          type: string
        example: example-resource-01
      - name: page
        in: query
        description: Pagination index (will be deprecated)
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 100
      - name: cursor
        in: query
        description: Cursor for next page (replacing page param)
        schema:
          type: string
        example: example_string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: No response was specified
          headers:
            link:
              description: 'Links to related resources, in the format defined by [RFC 5988](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#section-5). This will include a link with relation type `next` to the next page and `last` to the last page, unless this page is itself the last page.

                '
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: string
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricParserResponse'
              examples:
                Getapplicationsidinstancesinstanceidmetrics200Example:
                  summary: Default getApplicationsIdInstancesInstanceIdMetrics 200 response
                  x-microcks-default: true
                  value:
                    metric:
                      name: {}
                      values: {}
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricParserResponse'
              examples:
                Getapplicationsidinstancesinstanceidmetrics200Example:
                  summary: Default getApplicationsIdInstancesInstanceIdMetrics 200 response
                  x-microcks-default: true
                  value:
                    metric:
                      name: {}
                      values: {}
      x-api-evangelist-processing:
        PascalCaseOperationSummaries: true
        CaselCaseOperationIds: true
        GenerateOperationSummariesFromPath: true
        ChooseTags: true
      operationId: getApplicationsIdInstancesInstanceIdMetrics
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
  /applications/{application_id}/instances/{instance_id}/metrics/data.json:
    get:
      tags:
      - Instance
      summary: New Relic Get Applications Instances Instance Metrics Data
      description: '<p>This API endpoint returns a list of values for each of the requested metrics. The list of available metrics

        can be returned using the Metric Name API endpoint.</p>


        <p>Metric data can be filtered by a number of parameters, including multiple names and values, and by time range.

        Metric names and values will be matched intelligently in the background.</p>


        <p>You can also retrieve a summarized data point across the entire time range selected by using the summarize

        parameter.</p>


        <p>See our documentation for a discussion on <a href="https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/rest-api-v2/requirements/pagination-api-output" target="_blank">

        output pagination</a>, <a href="https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/rest-api-v2/requirements/extracting-metric-data" target="_blank"> time range</a>

        related considerations, and for examples of <a href="https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/rest-api-v2/requirements/new-relic-rest-api-v2-getting-started#examples" target="_blank">requesting and using metric values</a>.</p>


        '
      parameters:
      - name: application_id
        in: path
        description: Application ID
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 100
      - name: instance_id
        in: path
        description: Application Instance ID
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 100
      - name: names
        in: query
        description: Retrieve specific metrics by name
        required: true
        style: form
        explode: false
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        example:
        - example_string
      - name: values
        in: query
        description: Retrieve specific metric values
        style: form
        explode: false
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        example:
        - example_string
      - name: from
        in: query
        description: Retrieve metrics after this time
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        example: '2026-04-18T14:30:00Z'
      - name: to
        in: query
        description: Retrieve metrics before this time
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        example: '2026-04-18T14:30:00Z'
      - name: period
        in: query
        description: Period of timeslices in seconds
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 100
      - name: summarize
        in: query
        description: Summarize the data
        schema:
          type: boolean
        example: true
      - name: raw
        in: query
        description: Return unformatted raw values
        schema:
          type: boolean
        example: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: No response was specified
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricDataResponse'
              examples:
                Getapplicationsidinstancesinstanceidmetricsdata200Example:
                  summary: Default getApplicationsIdInstancesInstanceIdMetricsData 200 response
                  x-microcks-default: true
                  value:
                    metric_data:
                      from: {}
                      metrics: {}
                      metrics_found: {}
                      metrics_not_found: {}
                      to: {}
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricDataResponse'
              examples:
                Getapplicationsidinstancesinstanceidmetricsdata200Example:
                  summary: Default getApplicationsIdInstancesInstanceIdMetricsData 200 response
                  x-microcks-default: true
                  value:
                    metric_data:
                      from: {}
                      metrics: {}
                      metrics_found: {}
                      metrics_not_found: {}
                      to: {}
      x-api-evangelist-processing:
        PascalCaseOperationSummaries: true
        CaselCaseOperationIds: true
        GenerateOperationSummariesFromPath: true
        ChooseTags: true
      operationId: getApplicationsIdInstancesInstanceIdMetricsData
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
  schemas:
    MetricParserResponseType:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          example: example-resource-01
        values:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          example:
          - example_string
    TimesliceResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        from:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          example: '2026-04-18T14:30:00Z'
        to:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          example: '2026-04-18T14:30:00Z'
        values:
          type: object
          properties: {}
          example: {}
    MetricDataResponseType:
      type: object
      properties:
        from:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          example: '2026-04-18T14:30:00Z'
        metrics:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricResponse'
          example:
          - name: example-resource-01
            timeslices:
            - {}
        metrics_found:
          type: string
          example: example_string
        metrics_not_found:
          type: string
          example: example_string
        to:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          example: '2026-04-18T14:30:00Z'
    MetricResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          example: example-resource-01
        timeslices:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/TimesliceResponse'
          example:
          - from: '2026-04-18T14:30:00Z'
            to: '2026-04-18T14:30:00Z'
            values: {}
    MetricParserResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        metric:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricParserResponseType'
    MetricDataResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        metric_data:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricDataResponseType'
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Api-Key
      description: New Relic License Key or Ingest API Key
externalDocs:
  description: New Relic Event API Documentation
  url: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-apis/ingest-apis/event-api/introduction-event-api/