Monitor 40+ OCI services with automated onboarding and real-time insights.
As enterprise architectures scale across multi-cloud environments, site reliability engineers (SREs) and platform engineers face an operational challenge: fragmented visibility. Managing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) workloads in native console silos separate from AWS, Azure, and GCP telemetry slows root-cause analysis and increases mean time to resolution (MTTR) during high-severity incidents. When an application performance drop or host CPU breach occurs in an OCI compartment, engineering teams cannot afford to spend critical minutes manually stitching metrics and log groups across disconnected consoles.
To solve this, New Relic today is introducing general availability (GA) of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure monitoring. This capability expands New Relic’s cloud integrations by bringing native metrics, logs, and metadata for 40+ OCI services into a unified observability platform. For SRE and platform teams running OCI at scale, and for the leaders who set cloud monitoring standards, this release means faster incident response, less setup work, and OCI telemetry in the same platform as the rest of their cloud data.
OCI simplifies operations and reduces manual work through:
- Automated onboarding: Establish keyless trust with OCI Identity using Workload Identity Federation (WIF), and deploy telemetry at scale across hundreds of compartments using Terraform.
- Service coverage: Stream metrics, logs, tags, and metadata for 40+ OCI services—including Compute, Autonomous Database, Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), and Networking—directly into New Relic via OCI Connector Hub.
- Out-of-the-box Golden Metric dashboards: Gain operational visibility into health KPIs without manual dashboard configuration, enabling SREs and DevOps teams to triage cross-cloud bottlenecks faster.
Reduce MTTR across complex, multi-tenant OCI environments
Enterprise organizations running large-scale OCI environments—often spanning dozens of tenancies, hundreds of compartments, and multiple geographic regions—require consistent telemetry collection without the friction of manual configuration. Fragmented monitoring tools obscure service dependencies, making it difficult to map blast radius when underlying compute instances or database storage limits are breached.
With New Relic OCI monitoring, telemetry from your entire OCI footprint flows into the same platform where your application performance, Kubernetes clusters, and multi-cloud infrastructure reside. By centralizing OCI telemetry alongside AWS and Azure workloads, DevOps engineers and SREs gain a unified view that connects infrastructure health to application performance.
Two-phase automated onboarding: From IAM configuration to full telemetry stream
Managing observability across your entire enterprise OCI footprint, spanning multiple tenancies and deep compartment structures. Setup is designed to be simple. New Relic implements a secure, two-phase setup that eliminates the need to manage and rotate API keys and simplifies deployment:
- Establish Trust via Workload Identity Federation (WIF): Rather than relying on static API keys or long-lived credentials, authentication between OCI and New Relic uses secure, token-based Workload Identity Federation (WIF). Platform engineers can quickly establish this trust using guided UI workflows, manual setup, or fully automated Terraform configurations and ORM stacks.
- Resource Scoping and Automation via UI or Terraform (IaC): Whether you prefer a guided wizard or complete Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) automation, scoping your telemetry is straightforward. Platform operators can select target OCI regions, metric namespaces, and log groups directly within the New Relic UI, or define them programmatically using Terraform. A pre-packaged Terraform configuration or ORM stack then automatically provisions the required infrastructure—including OCI Connector Hub pipelines—directly within your OCI tenancy. Once deployed, metrics and log streams begin flowing automatically into New Relic.
Proactive anomaly detection and alerting
Once ingested, OCI telemetry is immediately queryable using New Relic Query Language (NRQL) and integrated into New Relic's broader capability suite:
- Golden Metric dashboards: Pre-built dashboards display critical performance indicators (such as CPU utilization, memory pressure, storage IOPS, and network throughput) across 40+ OCI services without requiring custom setup.
- Real-Time Anomaly Detection & Alerting: SREs can configure static threshold alerts or leverage real-time AI anomaly detection to automatically surface performance deviations before they cause SLA breaches.
FAQs about New Relic Oracle Cloud Infrastructure monitoring:
How does New Relic collect metrics and logs from OCI services?
New Relic integrates with OCI using native OCI Connectors and OCI Functions. An automated Terraform configuration or Oracle Resource Manager (ORM) stack deploys the pipeline within your tenancy, configuring Connectors to gather telemetry (metrics and logs) and stream them securely to OCI Functions, which forward the data directly to New Relic. Once ingested, New Relic’s platform capabilities automatically kick in to create entities for your OCI resources and populate out-of-the-box (OOTB) dashboards and alerts.
What authentication mechanism is used between OCI and New Relic?
To maintain enterprise security standards, New Relic uses OIDC Workload Identity Federation (WIF). This eliminates the management overhead and security risks of storing static API keys or credentials. We currently support two types:
- User Principal Service Token (UPST): Create a service user and group
- Resource Principal Service Token (RPST): Skip the user and group setup. Access is granted through claims in the token.
Is a separate license or SKU required for OCI monitoring?
No separate SKU is required. OCI monitoring is fully integrated into the New Relic platform and billed under our standard usage-based model: total data volume ingested (metrics and logs), active billable user licenses, and Compute Capacity Units (CCUs).
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