New Relic Ground Truth CLI

New Relic Ground Truth CLI is a command-line interface announced by New Relic on October 6, 2026, as part of the broader New Relic Ground Truth offering. It lets developers and AI agents investigate production issues, check recovery criteria and capture operational evidence from the terminal. The press release says it is planned to enter limited preview on October 8, 2026.

What It Is

Ground Truth CLI is a headless way to reach New Relic telemetry and operational context without switching to the platform UI. According to the announcement, it provides a single command-line experience with connections to the Autopilot, NerdGraph and memory APIs. It is meant for human engineers as well as AI coding tools, scripts and CI pipelines.

How the Workflow Runs

The announcement describes four main capabilities:

• Investigate: ask operational questions and examine services, logs, alerts and changes.
• Verify recovery: define and evaluate the conditions that indicate a service has recovered, and automate those checks from the terminal.
• Preserve evidence: capture investigation results so work can be resumed, reviewed and shared.
• Feed AI workflows: give AI tools programmatic access to New Relic operational context.

In the announcement's example, an engineer investigating increased checkout errors examines operational evidence, evaluates a reviewed error-rate check after a change, and hands off the captured findings.

Relationship to Ground Truth and MCP

New Relic Ground Truth is the operational intelligence layer that connects telemetry, dependencies, incidents, changes, ownership and business context. The press release states that Ground Truth already connects compatible AI tools to New Relic context through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and that the CLI and MCP server are complementary ways to reach the same capabilities.

Current Status

The press release says the CLI is planned for limited preview on October 8, 2026. Ground Truth and Autopilot are described as generally available to New Relic customers. Availability of the CLI itself is not confirmed beyond that planned date.