New Relic Plugins: Support for Multiple Dashboards, APM Apps, and Multi-Account Configurations

[thakkarpurvesh]

Workspace

newrelic

🔖 Feature description

The New Relic Dashboard and APM plugins currently only support a single dashboard GUID and single application ID per entity:

Current limitation:

• newrelic.com/dashboard-guid: accepts only one GUID
• newrelic.com/application-id: accepts only one application ID
• Proxy supports only one New Relic account/API key

Requested features:

1. Support for multiple dashboard GUIDs per entity (comma-separated or array format)
2. Support for multiple APM application IDs
3. Multi-account support for different environments (dev/staging/production)

Affected plugins:

• @backstage-community/plugin-newrelic-dashboard
• @backstage-community/plugin-newrelic

🎤 Context

Why this is needed:

Modern microservices typically have:

• Multiple dashboards tracking different aspects (infrastructure, business metrics, security, compliance)
• Separate New Relic accounts per environment for isolation, security, and billing
• Multiple application instances across regions/clusters

Real-world example:
A service my-api has:

• Dev account dashboard: guid-dev-123
• Staging account dashboard: guid-staging-456
• Production account dashboard: guid-prod-789

Currently impossible to view all three in Backstage without creating three separate entities.

✌️ Possible Implementation

Option 1: Comma-separated values

annotations:
  newrelic.com/dashboard-guid: 'guid1,guid2,guid3'
  newrelic.com/application-id: 'id1,id2,id3'

Option 2: Array format

annotations:
  newrelic.com/dashboard-guids:
    - 'guid1'
    - 'guid2'

Option 3: Environment-specific annotations (for multi-account)

annotations:
  newrelic.com/dashboard-guid.dev: 'dev-guid'
  newrelic.com/dashboard-guid.staging: 'staging-guid'
  newrelic.com/dashboard-guid.production: 'prod-guid'

Code changes needed:

• Update getDashboardEntity() to parse and accept array of GUIDs
• Add UI component with tabs/accordion for multiple dashboards
• Support multiple proxy endpoints for different accounts
• Update isNewRelicDashboardAvailable to check any valid annotation

Technical investigation:
I inspected the plugin source at node_modules/@backstage-community/plugin-newrelic-dashboard/dist/components/NewRelicDashboard/DashboardEntityList.esm.js and confirmed getDashboardEntity() accepts only a single string value with no array parsing logic.

👀 Have you spent some time to check if this feature request has been raised before?

• I checked and didn't find similar issue

🏢 Have you read the Code of Conduct?

• I have read the Code of Conduct

Are you willing to submit PR?

None