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Home / Migrations / New Relic → Grafana Cloud (or self-hosted)

New Relic → Grafana Cloud (or self-hosted)

medium

New Relic is under private equity ownership (cost-cutting risk). Grafana Cloud has a generous free tier. Self-hosted Grafana + Prometheus + Loki gives full observability with no per-host pricing.

Estimated: 4-10h · 4 steps

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Step 1: Set up Grafana Cloud or self-hosted

Cloud: grafana.com/cloud (free tier). Self-hosted: docker compose with Grafana + Prometheus + Loki + Tempo.

Step 2: Replace APM agent

Remove New Relic agent. Install OpenTelemetry SDK (language-specific). Configure OTLP exporter to Grafana.

npm install @opentelemetry/sdk-node @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node

Step 3: Migrate dashboards

Recreate New Relic dashboards in Grafana. Grafana dashboards are JSON-based and shareable.

Step 4: Set up alerts

Migrate New Relic alert policies to Grafana alerting. Contact points → Slack, PagerDuty, email.

✓ Metrics, logs, and traces flowing into Grafana. Dashboards show equivalent data. Alerts fire correctly.

What this migration involves

Moving from New Relic to Grafana Cloud (or self-hosted) is rated medium and takes about 4-10h on a typical project. The guide breaks it into 4 steps, 1 of which ship with runnable commands and 1 with a verification check.

New Relic data →

Related migrations

Datadog → Grafana Stack — hard, 8-16h Datadog → OpenObserve / SigNoz — hard, 8-20h

FAQ

How long does migrating from New Relic to Grafana Cloud (or self-hosted) take?

Around 4-10h for a typical project — 4 steps, difficulty rated medium, 1 of them with copy-paste commands.

Is moving from New Relic to Grafana Cloud (or self-hosted) reversible?

No reverse guide is tracked yet, so treat this as a one-way move and keep a full export of your New Relic data before you start.

What does Grafana Cloud (or self-hosted) cost compared to New Relic?

New Relic: freemium from $0/mo, free plan available.