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preflight by newrelic-experimental MCP Server

New Relic MCP server for observing AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.)

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

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Published as @newrelic/preflight on npm. Runs locally.

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Reviewed GitHub reports

44 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Foolowed the installation instructions - no data appearing locally or in newrelic

Followed the install instructions - mode is both, newrelic licence and api key are correct-. dashboards installed with --all restarted claude and it picked up newrelic-preflight mcp, but only 2 tools are available.

preflight setup states that claude will start server on 127.0.0.1:7777 - well irtt did not happen either. started preflight with --local - server is up but no data is flowing to it. claude hooks appear to be not firing yet the /hooks command list those installed. as a result no…

Read the thread · 2026-06-23 · closed · external user · 7 comments

v1.4.34: registry manifest missing runtime deps (undici, hono, js-yaml) — fresh install crashes at startup

Summary: A fresh npm install -g @newrelic/preflight@1.4.34 produces a broken installation: the CLI crashes at startup with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND for undici.

Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package 'undici' imported from /usr/lib/node_modules/@newrelic/preflight/dist/proxy/otlp-receiver.js

Root cause: The npm registry manifest (packument) for 1.4.34 does not match the package.json inside the published tarball. Three runtime dependencies are missing from the…

Read the thread · 2026-07-14 · closed · external user · 5 comments

launchd dashboard daemon fails with "env: node: No such file or directory" (exit 127) on Homebrew-node setups

Summary

After preflight setup with the always-on background dashboard enabled, the launchd agent com.preflight.dashboard crash-loops and the dashboard never serves persistently. The collector hooks still write event buffers, but nothing processes them — so the dashboard UI only ever shows the live session, and historical sessions never appear.

launchctl list | grep preflight shows last exit 127, and ~/.newrelic-preflight/dashboard.log is filled with:

env: node: No such file…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/13) · 2026-06-29 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Native Windows + cloud/both mode: no events are ever sent (NrIngestManager gated on !isProvisional; sync resolution lacks the cwd fallback) - metrics-only, fully silent

## Summary

On **native Windows**, a `mode: 'cloud'` / `mode: 'both'` install silently sends **no events at all** (`AiToolCall`, `AiMcpToolCall`, `AiCodingTask`, `AiAntiPattern`, …). Metrics arrive fine, so the integration looks healthy — logs show `Sent metrics to NR` on schedule, no errors, no warnings — but every NRQL query against the event types returns 0 rows, forever.

Root cause: the `--stdio` MCP's **synchronous** session-id resolution has no cwd-breadcrumb fallback, so on native…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/320) · 2026-07-31 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### WSL2 (Linux CC): session_id never resolves via official hook alone; harvest scheduler never sends to New Relic even after fixing that

## Environment

- WSL2 (Ubuntu), Claude Code installed via npm inside WSL (Linux CC, not the Windows desktop app) — `platformTarget: wsl-linux-cc`
- Shell: fish
- `@newrelic/preflight` 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 (reproduced on both)
- Tried both manual config and official `preflight install --linux-cc --license-key ... --account-id ...`

## Bug A: session_id never resolves with the official hook alone

With only the installed hook command present (`preflight-collector pre-tool` / `post-tool`),…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/17) · 2026-07-02 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Most recent

### GitHub Copilot hooks file uses Claude Code's nested JSON shape, so Copilot's hooks-runner never executes any hook

### Summary

The Copilot hooks file generated by the installer (`generateCopilotHooksFile()` in `src/install/cli.ts`) uses Claude Code's nested settings.json hook shape:

```json
"PreToolUse": [{ "matcher": "", "hooks": [{ "type": "command", "command": "preflight-collector pre-tool" }] }]

GitHub Copilot's actual hooks schema is flat — each array entry is the command hook object directly:

"PreToolUse": [{ "type": "command", "command": "preflight-collector pre-tool" }]

Both…

Read the thread · 2026-09-04 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

Per-skill cost/tokens/duration exposed by nr_observe_get_cost_per_tool is not rendered anywhere

Summary

#568 added costBySkill to nr_observe_get_cost_per_tool and threaded skillName onto AiToolCall, so per-skill cost, tokens, and duration are available from both the MCP tool and NRQL. Neither is surfaced anywhere a person would actually look:

  • The local dashboard's Cost by Tool card still shows a single Skill bar — no breakdown by skill name.
  • The shipped ai-coding-assistant-team-view NR dashboard still facets by tool only, so code-review and security-review…

Read the thread · 2026-09-04 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Subagent (Task/Workflow) tool calls bypass AuditTrailManager entirely

Problem

SubagentWatcher (src/hooks/subagent-watcher.ts) is the only mechanism that observes activity inside Task-tool or Workflow-tool spawned subagents. By its own doc comment, its purpose is narrowly scoped to closing a cost-accounting gap: it polls subagent transcripts and emits mode: 'subagent_token' records so subagent token usage reaches CostTracker. It never extracts or forwards the subagent's actual tool-call records (Bash, Edit, Write, etc).

As a result, nothing a subagent…

Read the thread · 2026-09-04 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

Kiro sessions: session_id fails to resolve behind wrapped launchers, misdetected as generic-mcp, tool-map casing wrong

Summary

Several related bugs affect Kiro (and potentially other launchers that wrap the MCP server process):

  1. session_id never resolves when a launcher interposes a process above the MCP server. npx runs npm exec, which runs the server — so the server's process.ppid no longer matches the breadcrumb the hook collector wrote at its own ppid. Resolution silently fails while the MCP connection still reports healthy.
  2. **Kiro sessions record as platform: "generic-mcp" instead…

Read the thread · 2026-09-03 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Release workflow's MCP Registry publish step fails: server.json description exceeds 100-char limit

Problem

The Release workflow's "Publish to MCP Registry" step has been failing on every run since roughly 2026-09-02 16:29 UTC (the last success was at 02:10 UTC that day). npm publish itself succeeds every time — the package reaches npm fine — but the subsequent mcp-publisher publish step fails with:

Error: publish failed: server returned status 422:
{"title":"Unprocessable Entity","status":422,"detail":"validation failed",
 "errors":[{"message":"expected length <=…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/556) · 2026-09-02 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### OTLP SessionSpan mis-tags Claude Code sessions as generic-mcp (same root cause as #539)

## Problem

`SessionSpan`'s `ai.platform` attribute is set from `createDefaultRegistry().getActive().platformName` (`src/index.ts`, in the `if (config.otlp.transport !== 'nr-events-api')` branch at MCP server startup). This hits the same root cause as #539: `ClaudeCodeAdapter.isSupported()` checks env vars (`CLAUDE_CODE`/`CLAUDE_CODE_VERSION`/`MCP_CLIENT==='claude-code'`) that a real Claude Code process doesn't set (it sets `CLAUDECODE=1`/`CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID`/`CLAUDE_CODE_ENTRYPOINT`…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/540) · 2026-09-01 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### ClaudeCodeAdapter.isSupported() checks env vars that real Claude Code hook processes don't set

## Problem

`ClaudeCodeAdapter.isSupported()` (`src/platforms/claude-code-adapter.ts`) checks:

```ts
process.env.CLAUDE_CODE !== undefined ||
process.env.CLAUDE_CODE_VERSION !== undefined ||
process.env.MCP_CLIENT === 'claude-code'

None of these match the environment variables Claude Code's own CLI/hook processes actually set. A real Claude Code session sets CLAUDECODE=1 (no underscore between CLAUDE and CODE), CLAUDE_CODE_ENTRYPOINT, and CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID — verified directly…

Read the thread · 2026-09-01 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

See all 24 reports Pod holds for preflight by newrelic-experimental — of 44 qualified upstream.

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