New Relic, the Intelligent Observability company, announced a powerful integration of its AI-enhanced technology with the new agentic capability of GitHub Copilot—the coding agent. This collaboration redefines traditional, manual change validation and incident response by introducing a continuous improvement cycle driven by AI agents. The integration helps enterprises increase system reliability while empowering developers to innovate faster and more efficiently.
Transforming Software Development with Agentic AI
“Agentic AI is poised to be a transformative technology for enterprise developers facing immense pressure to innovate rapidly without compromising quality,” said Manav Khurana, Chief Product Officer at New Relic. “By integrating New Relic’s observability with GitHub Copilot coding agent, we close the loop on application health and offer a new agentic AI-driven development workflow.”
How the Integration Works
The New Relic AI and GitHub Copilot coding agent integration automates key software development lifecycle processes:
- Proactive monitoring: New Relic continuously monitors code deployments to detect performance issues automatically.
- Automated issue creation: Upon detection, New Relic identifies root causes and generates detailed GitHub issues with necessary context.
- Expedited code repair: Developers can assign the issue to GitHub Copilot, which drafts a fix and submits a pull request for human review.
- Validation and resolution: Post-merge, New Relic validates the fix, completing the virtuous cycle of continuous improvement.
Key Benefits
- Reduced time to resolution: Automates issue detection and validation for faster fixes.
- Improved developer productivity: Frees engineers from manual troubleshooting to focus on innovation.
- Enhanced system reliability: Rapidly addresses performance problems for seamless user experience.
- Accelerated innovation: Enables faster, safer software deployment cycles.
Industry Leadership and Partnership
Julia Liuson, President of Microsoft’s Developer Division, praised the partnership:
“Our integrations with partners like New Relic make GitHub tools more scalable, reliable, and intelligent, driving innovation and efficiency across the software lifecycle.”
This integration extends New Relic’s collaboration with Microsoft and GitHub, building on existing GitHub Copilot extensions to provide engineers faster feedback loops and better code quality.
The integration is currently available as a limited preview for New Relic customers with eligible accounts who are also GitHub Copilot Pro+ or Enterprise users. GitHub Copilot coding agent itself is available as a preview for GitHub Copilot Enterprise and Pro+ users.
