---
id: "new_relic_user_api_key"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["secrets"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 70
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/new_relic_user_api_key"
---

# New Relic user key (`new_relic_user_api_key`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

User key of New Relic, a personal API key that NerdGraph, New Relic's GraphQL API, requires for querying data and changing configuration. It starts with NRAK- followed by 27 letters and digits. Ingest keys, such as the license key and browser keys, are different.

- Parent datatype: `api_key`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Secrets and credentials (passwords, keys, tokens) (secrets)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^NRAK-[A-Za-z0-9]{27}$
```

## Examples

- `NRAK-ExampleKeyNotReal` (invalid example) — Too short

## Supported by tools

- `gitleaks`

## Sources

- doc: <https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/intro-apis/new-relic-api-keys/>
- other: <https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/blob/master/config/gitleaks.toml>

## Quality

Score 70/100. Missing: examples, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/new_relic_user_api_key.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/secrets/new_relic_user_api_key.yaml>