Create and manage New Relic Pipeline Control cloud rules via NerdGraph to drop ingested data or attributes
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Steps
Use the entityManagementCreatePipelineCloudRule mutation with an nrql field containing a DELETE FROM DATA_TYPE (WHERE ...) or DELETE attr1, attr2 FROM DATA_TYPE (WHERE ...) statement and a scope of { id: account_id, type: ACCOUNT }.
List existing rules with entitySearch(query: "type = 'PIPELINE_CLOUD_RULE'") or fetch one directly via entity(id: ...).
Update a rule's nrql, name, description, or enabled flag with entityManagementUpdatePipelineCloudRule, supplying the rule's entity id.
Delete a rule with the generic entityManagementDelete(id: ...) mutation.
Verify a rule is working by re-running the equivalent SELECT ... TIMESERIES query and confirming the matching data drops to zero after the rule takes effect.
Known gotchas
Cloud rule NRQL has restrictions: no JOIN or subqueries, no LIMIT/TIMESERIES/FACET/COMPARE WITH clauses, no SINCE/UNTIL, and a 4096-character query length limit.
Certain events (NrAuditEvent, NrIntegrationError) and attributes (any nr.-prefixed attribute, timestamp, appId, metricName, instrumentation.provider) can never be dropped by a cloud rule.
Multiple rules are applied independently to each data point — overlapping WHERE clauses across separate rules can end up dropping more data in combination than any single rule implies on its own.
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