New Relic Repositions Observability for the Agent Era: 'Autopilot' SRE Agent + 'Ground Truth' Make Telemetry a Substrate for Customers' Own Agents

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On June 23, New Relic launched New Relic Autopilot — an out-of-the-box SRE agent that triages incidents, finds root causes, and scopes remediations the moment an alert fires (with Kubernetes and Kafka domain specialists) — and Ground Truth, which gives a customer's existing custom agents native, tool-level access to New Relic's observability data substrate. The move reframes observability from a human dashboard product into infrastructure that both runs autonomous SREs and feeds the agents enterprises already operate. Both ship summer 2026.