New Relic Cost Optimization
Cut your New Relic bill. OhChimp ranks ingest by source, estimates overage above the free tier, and flags billed seats, then plans each fix.
What OhChimp optimizes for New Relic
Some of the cost levers OhChimp checks for New Relic. Each one becomes a reviewable plan you approve before anything changes.
Top ingest sources by GB
Most New Relic bills are driven by a handful of noisy data sources. OhChimp ranks your ingest sources by gigabytes from NrConsumption and projects each to a monthly figure, so you can see exactly which usageMetric is eating the allowance before you decide what to trim.
Billed ingest above the free tier
Every account gets 100 GB of free ingest per month, and only the overage is billed. OhChimp projects your monthly ingest, subtracts the free tier per account, and estimates the overage at the Data option list price ($0.40/GB) so you know roughly what the excess costs.
Drop low-value data with drop rules
Plenty of ingested data is never queried but still billed by the gigabyte. OhChimp's overage plan points you at drop rules on low-value data so you stop paying to store telemetry nobody reads.
Lower APM and infra sampling
Over-eager sampling pushes APM and infrastructure ingest higher than you need for the signal. OhChimp's plan flags sampling as a lever to bring those high-volume sources down while keeping the metrics you actually watch.
Full-platform seats you may not need
Full-platform seats are the other half of a New Relic bill alongside ingest. OhChimp counts how many of your users are full-platform (billed) versus total, and flags whether occasional users could move to the free Basic or Core tier. Per-seat prices vary by tier and contract and are not exposed via the API, so this finding stays count-based with no dollar estimate.
Worked example
For example, say OhChimp ranks your ingest and finds one debug log source projecting well past the 100 GB free tier, plus a batch of full-platform seats held by users who log in once a quarter.
It writes a plan to drop the low-value log source and a note on the seats you could move to the free tier. You press apply. OhChimp cannot yet measure what a single New Relic plan saves, so it does not mark one VERIFIED. The projected ingest saving stays an estimate, and when the 30 days of monitoring end the result reads "Inconclusive." The seat finding stays qualitative, since per-seat prices are not exposed via the API.
New Relic cost optimization FAQ
How does OhChimp connect to New Relic?
With a read-only New Relic User API key (NRAK-...). OhChimp queries the NerdGraph GraphQL endpoint for your region (US or EU) to read ingest volume by source and full-platform seat counts. It reads usage and account metadata only and never stores your application data, telemetry contents, or secrets.
Does OhChimp need write access or see my telemetry data?
No. OhChimp uses a read-only User API key and reads aggregated usage figures: gigabytes ingested per source from NrConsumption and user counts from userManagement. It never reads or stores the contents of your traces, logs, metrics, or secrets.
What New Relic costs can OhChimp actually reduce?
The two axes of a New Relic bill. On data ingest, OhChimp ranks your top ingest sources by gigabytes, estimates the billed overage above the 100 GB free tier, and points you at drop rules and lower sampling on the high-volume sources. On seats, it counts your full-platform (billed) users and flags whether occasional ones could move to the free Basic or Core tier.
Who applies the changes, and can they be rolled back?
You do. Each fix is a reviewable plan with a confidence score, a risk level, and rollback steps. Nothing changes until you click apply, and you are always the one who clicks.
How are the savings verified, and how is OhChimp priced?
Today New Relic savings stay estimates. OhChimp cannot yet measure what a single New Relic plan saves, so it does not mark one VERIFIED, and when the 30 days of monitoring end the result reads "Inconclusive." The only savings OhChimp measures today come from lowering the CPU and memory requests of a Kubernetes Deployment, StatefulSet, or DaemonSet. Pricing is flat monthly, OhChimp never takes a cut of your savings, and paid plans include a year-one ROI guarantee that lets you request a refund of your first 12 months of subscription fees if the verified savings on your Costs tab fall short of them. Estimated savings do not count.
Related integrations
Teams running New Relic usually run these too. OhChimp finds the waste in each and drafts every fix as a plan you approve.
PostHog
Event volume, retention, and feature usage
Grafana
Metric series, log volume, and retention
Coralogix
Log volume, retention tiers, and ingest