Self-hosted New Relic MCP alternatives
New Relic's server runs only as a hosted endpoint reached over OAuth. There is no build you install and run yourself, and your telemetry goes to New Relic's backend. If you need the server process and credentials on your own machine, you need a different one.
Every server below installs locally over stdio. Most point at an observability stack you operate, so the telemetry can stay on your own infrastructure. The last two cover code security and quality, adjacent jobs an agent often runs in the same loop as monitoring.
The 8 best self-hosted alternatives
Grafana Labs' server runs locally and queries dashboards, Prometheus, Loki, incidents, alerts, and OnCall, the closest self-hosted match if your observability already runs on a Grafana stack you operate.
Set up Grafana →Sentry's server installs locally and pulls issues, stack traces, and events plus Seer root-cause analysis, the error-tracking layer you can run yourself against a self-hosted Sentry.
Set up Sentry →The Prometheus server runs locally and executes PromQL instant and range queries, discovers metrics, and inspects scrape targets, a focused metrics tool pointed at your own Prometheus, with data never leaving your network.
Set up Prometheus →Run locally, the SigNoz server exposes traces, logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts in an OpenTelemetry-native stack you host, the broadest self-hosted observability option here.
Set up SigNoz →Incidents, services, schedules, teams, and orchestrations come from the PagerDuty server running locally, read-only by default, so the on-call process and tokens stay on your own machine.
Set up PagerDuty →AWS Labs' server runs locally and executes any AWS CLI command, which reaches CloudWatch and other monitoring services for teams whose telemetry lives in AWS, all from a process you control.
Set up AWS (AWS Labs) →Not observability but a local companion: Snyk's server, built into the Snyk CLI, scans dependencies, code, containers, and IaC for vulnerabilities right where code is written, a self-hosted security check beside monitoring.
Set up Snyk →Sonar's official server brings SonarQube code quality, security, and coverage analysis into an agent, a self-hostable quality gate that runs in the same loop as the monitoring tools above.
Set up SonarQube →
How to choose
New Relic has no self-hostable server, so a local setup means a different tool. Grafana and SigNoz are the broadest observability options you can run yourself, with Prometheus, Sentry, and PagerDuty going deep on metrics, errors, and on-call. AWS reaches CloudWatch through its CLI. Snyk and SonarQube are not monitoring; they are local security and quality servers an agent uses alongside it. Running the server locally keeps the process and tokens yours; whether data stays local depends on the backend you point it at.
FAQ
- Can the New Relic MCP server be self-hosted?
- No. New Relic offers only a hosted server reached over OAuth, with no self-installable build, and your telemetry goes to its backend. If running the server yourself is required, pick one of the local alternatives such as Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, or SigNoz.
- Does self-hosting the server keep my telemetry on my own systems?
- It keeps the server process and credentials local. Whether the telemetry stays local depends on the backend: Grafana, Prometheus, and SigNoz can run entirely on your own stack, while a server pointed at a hosted backend still sends data over the network.