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title: Query External Data Sources with New Relic Lens: no ingest required
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/whats-new/2026/02/whats-new-02-25-nr-lens
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New Relic Lens allows you to connect and query multiple external data sources like Snowflake, Iceberg, Google Sheets, and many more using SQL – all from within the New Relic UI. Users can combine, analyze and correlate telemetry and non-telemetry (business) data using sophisticated cross-database joins without ingesting the external data. You can run a Lens query in the Query Builder, within the new Notebooks feature, or saved within a Dashboard. 

Whether you are a DevOps engineer wanting to combine data from different databases, or a Product Manager looking to display revenue data alongside usage for your executive suite, or a comms manager trying to find the correct person to contact, New Relic Lens can help you query data where it lives and enhance your Observability experience.

**Find out more**:

-   [Blog](https://newrelic.com/blog/news/streamline-data-discovery-and-analysis)
-   [Sign up here](https://newrelic.com/platform/product-preview)