New Relic Verified Foundation study guide
New Relic Verified Foundation · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The New Relic Verified Foundation credential is intended for practitioners who want to demonstrate foundational knowledge of the New Relic observability platform. The official certification page could not be retrieved (it returned a 404 error), so exam logistics such as question count, duration, passing score, fee, retake policy, and validity period are not confirmed and are marked as needing review. The New Relic Verified Foundation study guide has 7 sections and about 2,462 words.
01Application Performance Monitoring
The APM domain tests whether you can install and configure language agents, read the four golden signals, and use transaction and trace data to find the cause of a slowdown. An APM agent (Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go and others) instruments the app and reports to the account identified by the license key in newrelic.yml, newrelic.config, or newrelic.ini.
350 words, about 2 min02Digital Experience Monitoring
This domain covers what the end user actually experiences: real-user browser and mobile telemetry, plus synthetic checks that simulate traffic when no real user is present. Browser monitoring is delivered by a JavaScript agent injected in the page head (copy/paste snippet, npm bundle, or automatic injection through the APM agent).
369 words, about 2 min03AI and Intelligent Automation
This domain tests how New Relic applies AI to observability: AI-assisted querying and analysis, monitoring of LLM-backed applications, and automated detection and routing of incidents. The New Relic AI assistant in the UI generates NRQL, explains charts, and summarizes incidents.
353 words, about 2 min04Infrastructure Monitoring
Questions here test how host, cloud, and Kubernetes telemetry reaches New Relic and how to query and control it. The infrastructure agent is a single binary installed on a host.
350 words, about 2 min05Log Management
This domain covers getting logs into New Relic, shaping them so they are queryable, and controlling cost and privacy. Logs arrive via APM agent log forwarding (application logging.forwarding enabled), infrastructure agent log forwarding (file paths in config), open-source shippers (Fluent Bit, Fluentd, Logstash, Vector, syslog-ng), cloud services (AWS Firehose, CloudWatch subscriptions, Azure Event Hub, GCP Pub/Sub), or the HTTP log API.
345 words, about 2 min06Platform Capabilities
This domain tests the shared plumbing behind every product: the entity model, account structure, APIs, alerting, dashboards, and access control. Everything observable is an entity with a domain (APM, BROWSER, INFRA, MOBILE, SYNTH), a type, a GUID, and tags.
333 words, about 2 min07Pricing and Account Tiers
This domain covers how New Relic charges, what each user type can do, and which levers control spend. Current pricing has two dimensions: users (per seat per month) and data ingest (per GB).
362 words, about 2 min