newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent
New Relic RPM Ruby Agent observed · 2026-09-03
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 98
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 29.0
- age_days: 6515
- days_rel: 13
- days_push: 0
- n_releases_24m: 21
Adoption not part of the score
1209 stars · 608 forks observed · 2026-09-03
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
The New Relic Ruby agent is an APM agent that instruments Ruby and Rails applications to monitor performance, errors, distributed traces, and business data in the New Relic platform. It is distributed as a gem (newrelic_rpm) or Rails plugin and is actively maintained by New Relic engineering teams.
Use cases
- monitor performance of a Ruby on Rails application
- find and diagnose slow transactions and database queries in a Ruby app
- enable distributed tracing across microservices
- track errors and set up alerting for a Ruby application
- view logs in context with APM traces
- monitor background jobs and daemons in Ruby
- collect custom metrics and business data from a Ruby app
- track performance after deployments
When to choose
- you run Ruby or Rails applications and want full APM with the New Relic platform
- you need transaction traces, error tracking, and distributed tracing for Ruby services
- you want a vendor-maintained, actively released agent with broad framework support
- you want logs in context and custom dashboards for Ruby apps
When to avoid
- you want a self-hosted, vendor-neutral observability stack (e.g., OpenTelemetry)
- your application is not written in Ruby
- you cannot send application telemetry to a third-party SaaS service
Facets
library · maturity active
monitoring tracing alerting logging analytics monitoring backend web-development developer-tools ruby cross-platform apm observability new-relic performance-monitoring distributed-tracing rails gem devops
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent · fetched 2026-09-03 · fc55389187c4
- homepage: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/ruby-agent/getting-started/introduction-new-relic-ruby/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 19a523116acc
- site_page: https://docs.newrelic.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8a1a9454eb77
- site_page: https://docs.newrelic.com/es/docs/apm/agents/ruby-agent/getting-started/introduction-new-relic-ruby · fetched 2026-08-29 · bc009a422df8
- site_page: https://docs.newrelic.com/fr/docs/apm/agents/ruby-agent/getting-started/introduction-new-relic-ruby · fetched 2026-08-29 · 86476802c5f4
- site_page: https://docs.newrelic.com/jp/docs/apm/agents/ruby-agent/getting-started/introduction-new-relic-ruby · fetched 2026-08-29 · d022cefe27aa
- site_page: https://docs.newrelic.com/kr/docs/apm/agents/ruby-agent/getting-started/introduction-new-relic-ruby · fetched 2026-08-29 · 568d56f76df8
- site_page: https://docs.newrelic.com/pt/docs/apm/agents/ruby-agent/getting-started/introduction-new-relic-ruby · fetched 2026-08-29 · a7d78ba06b75
- site_page: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/get-started/intro-new-relic · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9b784f863058
- site_page: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/new-relic-apm/getting-started/introduction-apm · fetched 2026-08-29 · 17060e52d363
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent | main | 99 |
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