Scheduled
On April 2nd at 00:00 UTC, New Relic will permanently transition to the DigiCert G2 root certificate for all endpoints.
This aligns with an industry-wide security change. On April 15th, 2026, major browser trust stores and security authorities will officially distrust the legacy DigiCert G1 Root Certificate. To maintain its strong continued security posture, New Relic is updating its infrastructure to utilize modern root certificates prior to this deadline.
Most modern systems and agents are designed to handle this change automatically.
If your systems do not recognize and trust these newer root certificates when the update is applied, the secure handshake will fail and would result in a telemetry data drop, meaning your metrics, events, traces, and logs may stop reporting to the New Relic platform. This risk is primarily associated with legacy Java agents (older than v6.4.2), certain Docker images, and systems using pinned certificates.
Any further updates will be posted on status.newrelic.com, as well as our forum: https://support.newrelic.com/s/hubtopic/aAXPh000000HVSPOA4/action-required-root-certificate-update-on-april-1-2026
Posted Mar 18, 2026 - 17:54 UTC
This scheduled maintenance affects: Alert Notifications : US (APM : US, Browser : US, Infrastructure : US, Logs : US, Mobile : US, NRQL : US, Serverless : US, Synthetics : US), Alert Notifications : Europe (APM : Europe, Browser : Europe, Infrastructure : Europe, Logs : Europe, Mobile : Europe, NRQL : Europe, Serverless : Europe, Synthetics : Europe), Data Ingest : US (APM Agent : US, Browser Agent : US, Event API : US, Incident Intelligence API : US, Infrastructure Agent : US, Log API : US, Metric API : US, Mobile Agent : US, OTLP API : US, Trace API : US, Synthetics : US), and Data Ingest : Europe (APM Agent : Europe, Browser Agent : Europe, Event API : Europe, Incident Intelligence API : Europe, Infrastructure Agent : Europe, Log API : Europe, Metric API : Europe, Mobile Agent : Europe, OTLP API : Europe, Trace API : Europe, Synthetics : Europe).