New Relic APM Practitioner study guide
New Relic APM Practitioner · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The New Relic APM Practitioner credential is a vendor-aligned certification for engineers, SREs, and platform teams who monitor application performance on New Relic. This independent study page is built for candidates searching for a practical, current guide to the exam. The New Relic APM Practitioner study guide has 5 sections and about 1,937 words.
01Application Performance Monitoring (APM 360)
APM 360 questions ask you to read application health from New Relic APM data - response time, throughput, errors and Apdex - and to follow a slow request across services using transaction traces, distributed tracing and service maps. Expect to distinguish symptom from cause and to know which metric answers which question.
395 words, about 2 min02Digital Experience Monitoring
This domain covers the end-user side of the platform: browser and mobile agents, synthetic monitors and session replay. Questions ask you to pick the right instrument for a question, interpret Core Web Vitals, and separate front-end symptoms from back-end causes.
361 words, about 2 min03AI and Intelligent Automation
Questions here cover Applied Intelligence alerting (static, baseline and outlier conditions), incident correlation, the generative AI assistant, and AI Monitoring for applications that call large language models. Static threshold conditions suit known limits.
388 words, about 2 min04Infrastructure Monitoring
The infrastructure domain asks how hosts, Kubernetes clusters and cloud services get instrumented, which event types hold the data, and how to alert on the right aggregation without flooding on-call. The infrastructure agent runs on the host and emits sample events such as SystemSample (CPU, memory, disk, network), ProcessSample, StorageSample and NetworkSample.
357 words, about 2 min05Logs and Platform Capabilities
This domain covers how logs reach New Relic, how they are parsed and linked to traces, and the platform features that tie everything together: NRQL, dashboards, alert policies and workflows, the entity model, accounts and access, and the APIs used to automate them. Ingestion paths include the Log API (HTTP POST with a license key), APM agent log forwarding, infrastructure agent log forwarding, Fluentd/Fluent Bit plugins and cloud log exports.
436 words, about 2 min