New Relic Certification

The New Relic Certification is a free intermediate-level, 20-minute skill test from Science of Apps. It tests New Relic observability skills — telemetry data and instrumentation, querying with NRQL and building dashboards, alerts, incidents and service levels, and troubleshooting with APM, distributed tracing, logs and synthetics — written to New Relic documentation and New Relic University certification topics for 2026. Score 70% or more on its 20 questions to earn a verifiable New Relic Proficiency certificate (SOA-NR). Every question is based on published standards and research — including New Relic documentation (APM, infrastructure, NRQL, alerts, service levels) (New Relic) — and each answer is explained with its source.

Science of Apps offers a free New Relic Certification, updated for 2026 and 2027. It measures telemetry and instrumentation, NRQL and dashboards, alerts, incidents and service levels and troubleshooting and synthetics and gives instant results with a shareable certificate.

Read the four skill areas on this page, then take the 20-minute test online — no fee, course or sign-up. You see every answer explained when you finish. Score 70% or more and you get a New Relic Proficiency certificate straight away, on screen, as a PDF and by email, with a credential ID anyone can verify.

Yes. The questions are original scenarios written by Science of Apps, and each one is based on a public source you can read: New Relic documentation (APM, infrastructure, NRQL, alerts, service levels) (New Relic). The source is shown under each question and linked in the answer review. Science of Apps doesn't copy questions from other tests.

Four skill areas with five questions each, drawn from a bank of 10 per area so a retake brings new questions: Telemetry and Instrumentation (Data types, Agents and OpenTelemetry); NRQL and Dashboards (NRQL syntax, Charts and Dashboards); Alerts, Incidents and Service Levels (Alert conditions, Incidents and workflows and SLIs and SLOs); Troubleshooting and Synthetics (APM and tracing, Errors and logs and Synthetic monitoring). Every question is an original scenario written to the 2026–2027 standard, with the published source named under it.

Site reliability engineer, DevOps or platform engineer, Application developer, Observability or monitoring engineer and Support or operations engineer. It suits anyone who wants a quick, verifiable way to show New Relic knowledge in 2026 and 2027, from students and career switchers to experienced professionals.

New Relic University offers free certifications such as the Full-Stack Observability Practitioner, covering instrumentation, NRQL, dashboards, alerts and troubleshooting across APM, infrastructure, browser and logs.

NRQL (New Relic Query Language) is a SQL-like language for querying New Relic data. A typical query looks like SELECT count(*) FROM Transaction SINCE 1 hour ago FACET appName TIMESERIES, and queries power dashboards and alert conditions.

Yes. The test is online, in English and free everywhere — people take it from India, the US, the UK, Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. Your certificate is dated with your own local date and can be verified from anywhere at scienceofapps.com/certification/verify/.

20 questions — 5 from each of 4 skill areas — with a 20-minute limit. You need 70% (14 of 20) to pass and 90% for distinction.

We rate it Intermediate: assumes hands-on experience in the role. It has 20 scenario questions — 5 from each of 4 skill areas — and a 20-minute limit. You need 70% (14 of 20) to pass and 90% for distinction.

Nothing. There is no fee to take a test, to receive the certificate, to have it emailed or to verify it, and no sign-up.

On our server, not in your browser. The answers never reach the page until you submit, so a certificate can only be earned by passing. Each certificate gets a unique credential ID stored by Science of Apps.

You see your score for each area and every question with the correct answer and why, with the published source behind it. You can retake after 30 minutes, and the retake draws questions you haven't seen yet.

No. Every certificate is dated, so it always shows when you passed. Retake a test any time for a newer date or a higher score.

Yes. After you pass, Add to LinkedIn opens the Licenses & certifications form with the certificate name, Science of Apps as the issuer, the issue date, your credential ID and the verification link filled in. You can also download it as a PDF or PNG, and it's emailed to you as a PDF.

Every certificate has a credential ID and a QR code. Scanning it, or entering the ID at scienceofapps.com/certification/verify/, shows the holder's name, the certification, the score and the issue date from our records.

No. They are Science of Apps' own assessments of applied skill. They aren't issued by a university or standards body, and they work best alongside a portfolio that shows the skills in real work.