New Relic, the intelligent observability platform, today announced the launch of New Relic Autopilot Kubernetes Agent. Designed for operations teams including site reliability engineers (SREs) and platform engineers, the new agent is a highly specialized, domain-specific extension of New Relic Autopilot, a fleet of SRE agents that investigate incidents and accelerate response workflows. Purpose-built for highly complex Kubernetes environments where incident detection and resolution are traditionally difficult, New Relic Autopilot Kubernetes Agent automatically pinpoints root causes and generates context-aware fix code for engineers to review and execute. This allows teams to proactively address anomalies, troubleshoot faster, and resolve disruptions before they impact end users.

Eliminating the guesswork from complex cluster incidents to protect engineering velocity and application reliability

According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, 66% of organizations running generative AI rely on Kubernetes, but the resulting multi-cluster sprawl is exposing a critical expertise gap. Kubernetes environments are incrementally more complex than traditional architectures and structurally different, shifting operations from managing fixed machines to managing a dynamic, self-healing distributed system. Diagnosing issues across large container setups has always required deep Kubernetes knowledge that few teams possess. When outages strike, engineers can waste hours stitching together fragmented dashboards or sifting through speculative advice from generic LLMs that lack operational context. To protect application uptime and engineering productivity, teams need automated systems that give all team members the insight to diagnose complex problems and resolve incidents before customer experience suffers.

New Relic Autopilot Kubernetes Agent is designed for this highly complex environment. While the broader New Relic Autopilot ecosystem handles full-stack observability queries, the specialized New Relic Autopilot Kubernetes Agent zeroes in on containerized environments. It runs more than 90 specialized diagnostic detectors across Kubernetes events, object descriptions, logs, and APM traces, isolating root causes and delivering ready-to-run remediation code. Unlike generic LLMs that rely on speculative advice, the AI agent is powered by New Relic Ground Truth context engine to evaluate deep, highly correlated operational data built on OpenTelemetry, enabling it to pinpoint exact root causes and generate context-aware, ready-to-run remediation code.

“When critical Kubernetes infrastructure fails, engineers need clear answers, not just more alerts,” said New Relic Chief Product Officer Brian Emerson. “The New Relic Autopilot Kubernetes Agent embeds specialized, agentic AI directly into the engineer’s containerized workflows to eliminate the guesswork from complex cluster incidents while keeping the engineer safely in control. Because it works natively across any telemetry source, it provides a level of full-stack observability that specialized or closed-system tools cannot match.”

Additional capabilities of the New Relic Autopilot Kubernetes Agent include:

  • Targeted Kubernetes diagnostics: Specifically engineered to isolate root causes for the most common and complex infrastructure failures, including noisy neighbors and compute resourcing, scheduling failures, network errors, and cloud misconfigurations like Application Load Balancer (ALB) or ingress.

  • Seamless workflow integration: Built to operate directly within standard SRE and platform engineering workflows, it features flexible human-in-the-loop options so engineers can maintain oversight and control during incident investigations.

Visit New Relic at KubeCon North America 2026

Attendees can see the New Relic Autopilot Kubernetes Agent in action at KubeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City, Utah, from November 9 to 12. Visit New Relic at Booth #159 to see live demonstrations of autonomous incident investigation. Learn more here.

Read the blog post on New Relic’s presence at KubeCon.

Availability

The New Relic Autopilot Kubernetes Agent is available in public preview.

About New Relic

New Relic arms businesses with the trust and confidence required to thrive in the AI era. The New Relic Intelligent Observability Platform is the leading AI-strengthened platform designed to unify telemetry and business outcomes, bringing intelligence and automated actions to the most complex digital environments. The platform shifts teams from reactive firefighting to intelligent orchestration, leveraging AI-driven automation to optimize technology spend and protect revenue in real-time. That’s why global leaders—Adidas Runtastic, Domino’s, Ryanair, Swiggy, Topgolf, and William Hill—run on New Relic to drive innovation and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

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