New Relic launches New Relic Autopilot Kubernetes Agent to close the expertise gap and protect business uptime. New Relic | Published 12 Nov 2026 Purpose-built AI agent empowers engineering teams to troubleshoot complex clusters and resolve incidents faster without specialised Kubernetes knowledge 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 specialised, 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 organisations 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 specialised New Relic Autopilot Kubernetes Agent zeroes in on containerised environments. It runs more than 90 specialised 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 specialised, agentic AI directly into the engineer's containerised 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 specialised 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. Availability The New Relic Autopilot Kubernetes Agent is available in public preview.

Scaling OpenTelemetry & Autonomous Kubernetes ops at KubeCon NA 2026. Faster troubleshooting, more reliable Kubernetes, and lower telemetry costs as AI workloads scale. Kubernetes has firmly cemented itself as the bedrock for AI workloads; around 66% of organizations hosting generative AI models run inference on Kubernetes, and that number is trending higher. But as services, autonomous agents, and AI applications multiply, so do the telemetry and dependencies behind them, and troubleshooting takes longer. Many teams are now struggling with "Agent Debt," the growing sprawl of monitoring agents, telemetry pipelines, and tools across their clusters. New Relic, Inc. is heading to KubeCon North America 2026 to show how platform engineers, SREs, and AI developers can use OpenTelemetry-first observability and autonomous operations to resolve issues faster and manage telemetry costs-and put an end to Agent Debt. Meet up with New Relic, Inc. at KubeCon NA 2026, and bring your toughest Kubernetes troubleshooting questions to Booth #159. Its team is ready for them. Here's what you'll see from New Relic at KubeCon NA 2026: * OpenTelemetry at scale: Deploy OpenTelemetry across Kubernetes clusters with the OpenTelemetry Kube Stack chart. See how Operator auto-instrumentation, together with refined configurations like lowDataMode, reduces OpenTelemetry ingest. * Autonomous operations: Get a demo of New Relic's Autopilot Kubernetes (K8s) Agent, which uses more than 90 diagnostic detectors to investigate Kubernetes incidents from cluster events, object descriptions, and telemetry with APM traces, logs, and infrastructure signals. * The Noisy Neighbor Problem: Its lead demo will draw on one of the most pressing challenges for Platform Engineering: the disconnect between application and platform layers. OpenTelemetry built in: zero lock-in. Built natively on OpenTelemetry, New Relic delivers open standards and vendor-neutral telemetry collection across enterprise Kubernetes clusters. New Relic, Inc.'ll showcase Infrastructure 360 and Database 360, connecting application performance directly to infrastructure changes and database wait states. Whether you run self-managed Kubernetes, managed cloud services, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Red Hat OpenShift, or VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS), stop by to discuss practical ways to improve observability. Autonomous operations with Ground Truth context. New Relic brings unified operational context and autonomous investigation directly to Kubernetes workflows: * New Relic Ground Truth: Supplies high-density operational context directly to SRE workflows and AI tools. * Autopilot K8s Agent: uses more than 90 specialized detectors - purpose-built for Kubernetes failure modes like OOMKills, probe failures, scheduling and eviction problems, and misconfigured custom resources - to investigate incidents from cluster events, object descriptions, and telemetry with APM traces, logs, and infrastructure signals. That helps teams move from alert to root cause faster. Featured lead demo at Booth #159: "The Noisy Neighbor Problem" An app team gets paged for a slow service that looks healthy on its own, dragging the platform team into a cross-layer investigation. In this demo, follow the path from APM transaction latency spikes down to node metrics and limit configurations where a single pod without CPU limits is starving its neighbors. Watch how Autopilot automatically confirms the missing limits and recommends the fix - moving from symptom to root cause in just a few clicks. Check out the New Relic sessions at KubeCon. Observability Day (Monday, November 9 | Salt Palace, Level 2, Room 250 D-F) * What's the Dollar Cost of Slow? Answering Business Questions with OTel * Learn how custom OpenTelemetry trace, metric, and log patterns connect latency directly to business cost. * When: 1:30 to 1:55PM * Presented by Hannah Ramadan * An Ode to Metrics: Is OpenTelemetry Moving Away from Prometheus? * See how New Relic, Inc. compare Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics, from collection models to histograms and cross-signal interoperability. * When: 2:40 to 3:05 PM * Co-presented by Reese Lee OpenTofu Day (Monday, November 9 | Salt Palace, Level 1, Grand Ballroom H) * Inside the Engine: Tapping into OpenTofu's Internal Logging and Tracing for Security Auditing * Explore how to use OpenTofu's internal logs and traces to build a security audit trail without modifying the engine. * When: 2:05 to 2:30 PM * Presented by Zameer Fouzan BackstageCon (Monday, November 9 | Salt Palace, Level 2, Room 255 EF) * The Guardrail Paradox: Why Secure Software Templates Actually Speed Up Your Day 1 Code * This lightning talk shows how security built into Backstage software templates helps engineers ship production-ready services faster. * When: 5:00 to 5:10 PM * Presented by Zameer Fouzan KubeCon Main Conference (Wednesday, November 11 | Hyatt Regency, Level 4, Regency BD) * OTel Blueprints: Prescriptive Patterns for Enterprise Observability * The session introduces community-driven OTel Blueprints for deploying observability across Kubernetes and multi-cloud infrastructure. * When: 11:00 to 11:30 AM * Presented by Dan Gomez Blanco * Sample Smarter, Not Harder (Or Not At All!) * The session explores sampling strategies across SDKs and Collectors to reduce overhead and telemetry costs. * When: 11:50 AM to 12:20 PM * Co-presented by Reese Lee In-Booth Presentation (Wednesday, November 11 | New Relic Booth #159) * Kubernetes Monitoring with the OpenTelemetry Kube Stack * See the OpenTelemetry Kube Stack Helm chart installed on a live Kubernetes cluster with auto-injection of metrics, logs, and traces. * When: 1:45 - 2:00 PM * Presented by Reese Lee and Dan Gomez Blanco Expanded enterprise logging capabilities. Beyond metrics and traces, New Relic's enterprise logging solutions include Federated Logs to resolve in-region data residency mandates, AI Log Summarization for rapid incident diagnostics, and Scheduled Search and Reporting (now GA) to automate routine queries. New Relic, Inc. is at Booth #159. You name it, its experts are here to discuss it: Kubernetes operations, OpenTelemetry adoption, reliability engineering, AI observability, database performance, and telemetry cost optimization. Get a detailed explanation of how New Relic, Inc. can tailor its solutions to neatly fit your use case: Ask New Relic, Inc. anything, from initial setup to the hardest troubleshooting cases. Grab some time with its experts for a 1-on-1 on-site meeting here. Join New Relic, PagerDuty, Pulumi, Sysdig, and YugabyteDB for KubeNight Out on Wednesday, November 11 (5:30 - 8:30 PM). Connect with cloud-native practitioners and platform engineers over food, drinks, and games. Space is limited, so register here. Whether you're tuning OpenTelemetry for a large fleet, cutting telemetry costs, or tracking down the pod that's slowing everything else down, come find New Relic, Inc. at Booth #159. Ben Rivera is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at New Relic, focused on OpenTelemetry-first experiences that help platform teams standardize faster and operate telemetry with confidence. The views expressed on this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of New Relic. Any solutions offered by the author are environment-specific and not part of the commercial solutions or support offered by New Relic. Please join New Relic, Inc. exclusively at the Explorers Hub (support.newrelic.com) for questions and support related to this blog post. This blog may contain links to content on third-party sites. 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