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ClickHouse to Newrelic integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep ClickHouse and Newrelic in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect ClickHouse and Newrelic

Close the gap between analytics and operations: ClickHouse holds the record while Newrelic runs the day-to-day work, and Stacksync keeps the two in step in real time, in both directions.

ClickHouse is the central store where teams keep Materialized views, Distributed tables, Dictionaries, Tables (MergeTree family) for reporting and analysis; Newrelic runs the operational side of engineering work — tracking issues, moving messages and events, watching systems, and managing users and access. The two overlap wherever the same operational data matters to both: the NRQL Query Results, Entities, Workloads, Synthetics Monitors produced in Newrelic are exactly what analysts want to measure in ClickHouse, and the curated rows in ClickHouse are what should drive the next action in Newrelic. When that overlap is bridged by nightly ETL or hand-written scripts, dashboards lag a day behind reality and the tools that should react to warehouse signals never see them.

Stacksync syncs Materialized views, Distributed tables, Dictionaries, Tables (MergeTree family) in ClickHouse with NRQL Query Results, Entities, Workloads, Synthetics Monitors in Newrelic field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields; Stacksync matches records on a stable external key, keeps every copy consistent, and resolves conflicts by rules you set — so analytics and operations work from the same current data instead of two drifting copies.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync aggregated ClickHouse query results back into operational tools, such as account-level usage metrics into a CRM.
  • 02 Consolidate logs and business records from multiple sources into MergeTree tables for retention and reporting.
  • 03 Provision Synthetics Monitors from a service catalog and read their results via NRQL for availability and latency reporting in SQL.
  • 04 Provision and update Dashboards and Alert Policies from a config repository or database through NerdGraph so definitions stay versioned and consistent across accounts and environments.

Common sync patterns

Warehouse signals reach Newrelic

A row scored, flagged, or enriched in ClickHouse creates or updates the matching record in Newrelic, so the operational tool acts on the same data the analysts already see.

Backfill history, then stay live

Load the existing set of NRQL Query Results, Entities, Workloads, Synthetics Monitors into ClickHouse once, then keep it current with every change — you get full history plus real-time updates without a separate pipeline.

No batch jobs to babysit

New and changed records move field by field the moment they change, replacing scheduled ETL and one-off scripts that fail quietly and leave stale rows behind.

What you can sync between ClickHouse and Newrelic

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

ClickHouse objects Newrelic objects How this pairing syncs
Tables (MergeTree family) Columnar, append-optimized tables that serve as the destination for high-volume sync loads. Custom Events Custom events posted write-only to the Event API on insights-collector with a License/Ingest key; business or pipeline events pushed into New Relic to enrich dashboards, then queried back out with NRQL. Tables (MergeTree family) is specific to ClickHouse and Custom Events to Newrelic — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases Namespaces that group tables and scope permissions for sync users. Change Tracking (Deployments) Deployment and change markers recorded through NerdGraph changeTrackingCreateDeployment; written from CI/CD to annotate charts, and read back via NRQL on the Deployment event for release correlation. Databases is specific to ClickHouse and Change Tracking (Deployments) to Newrelic — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Saved queries used as curated, read-only sync sources. Dashboards Dashboard definitions and widgets via NerdGraph dashboardCreate/dashboardUpdate/dashboardDelete mutations and entity queries, with full CRUD; exported for backup and audit or provisioned and updated programmatically from a source of truth. Views is specific to ClickHouse and Dashboards to Newrelic — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Materialized views Insert-time transformations that reshape incoming synced rows into aggregates. Alert Policies & Conditions Alert policies and NRQL alert conditions managed through NerdGraph alertsPolicy and alertsNrqlCondition mutations with full create, update, and delete; read out for audit or provisioned from a config source so alerting stays consistent across accounts. Materialized views is specific to ClickHouse and Alert Policies & Conditions to Newrelic — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Distributed tables Query-routing tables over cluster shards in self-managed deployments. NRQL Query Results Telemetry events, metrics, logs, and spans queried through NerdGraph's nrql field (or the legacy Insights query API) over time windows; read-only and bounded by data retention, commonly streamed into a warehouse for long-term analysis. Distributed tables is specific to ClickHouse and NRQL Query Results to Newrelic — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Dictionaries In-memory lookup structures refreshed from external sources, sometimes fed by syncs. Entities The entity catalog of APM applications, hosts, services, and monitors searched via NerdGraph entitySearch; read for inventory, with tags added or replaced through taggingAddTagsToEntity so ownership and environment metadata stay in sync. Dictionaries is specific to ClickHouse and Entities to Newrelic — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between ClickHouse and Newrelic

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

ClickHouse Newrelic Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls ClickHouse for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. No log-based CDC for consumers.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Newrelic through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Newrelic ClickHouse Sub-second propagation

DetectionNewrelic notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. NRQL polling over timestamp windows for telemetry (events, metrics, logs, spans).

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to ClickHouse as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Newrelic: NerdGraph allows 25 concurrent requests per user and returns HTTP 429 when exceeded; NRQL run via APIs is capped at 3,000 queries per account per minute with a 5-second default timeout and about 5,000 data points per response. The Event API accepts 1MB per POST and 100,000 POSTs per minute per account.
What ships with ClickHouse ⇄ Newrelic

Connect ClickHouse and Newrelic for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every ClickHouse–Newrelic connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in ClickHouse or Newrelic instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever ClickHouse or Newrelic data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single ClickHouse or Newrelic record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your ClickHouse ⇄ Newrelic sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between ClickHouse and Newrelic.

How the ClickHouse and Newrelic connectors work

ClickHouse

Integration surface
Native TCP protocol and HTTP interface; standard SQL dialect, with MySQL and PostgreSQL wire compatibility available
Authentication
Database credentials (username/password); ClickHouse Cloud issues per-service credentials over TLS
Change detection
No log-based CDC for consumers; incremental reads use polling on monotonic columns, and ClickHouse is usually the destination rather than the source
Capabilities
read · write

Newrelic

Integration surface
NerdGraph (GraphQL) plus REST data-ingest APIs (Event, Metric, Log, Trace) and the legacy REST API v2
Authentication
User API key (prefixed NRAK-) sent in the API-Key header for NerdGraph queries and mutations; the data-ingest APIs (Event, Metric, Log) use a License/Ingest key in the Api-Key header. Keys, endpoints, and data are region-scoped (US, EU, JP).
Change detection
NRQL polling over timestamp windows for telemetry (events, metrics, logs, spans); config objects such as dashboards, alert policies, and workloads carry no modified-date and are diffed on each run. Alert workflows can push outbound webhook notifications for near-real-time alerting. No CDC feed.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
NerdGraph allows 25 concurrent requests per user and returns HTTP 429 when exceeded; NRQL run via APIs is capped at 3,000 queries per account per minute with a 5-second default timeout and about 5,000 data points per response. The Event API accepts 1MB per POST and 100,000 POSTs per minute per account.
How it works

How to connect ClickHouse to Newrelic — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate ClickHouse and Newrelic with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    ClickHouse connected
    Newrelic connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the ClickHouse and Newrelic objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · ClickHouse ⇄ Newrelic
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    ClickHouse Newrelic
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

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Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

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