diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/newrelic.ini.j2 b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/newrelic.ini.j2
index 26bb86bf2a3..7c3d3ad9c8c 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/newrelic.ini.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/newrelic.ini.j2
@@ -26,4 +26,10 @@
 # Transactions). This lets us do things like facet front end load time by
 # `course_id`.
 #
+{% if COMMON_ENVIRONMENT == "stage" or COMMON_DEPLOYMENT == "edge" %}
+browser_monitoring.enabled=false
+browser_monitoring.auto_instrument=false
+browser_monitoring.attributes.enabled=false
+{% else %}
 browser_monitoring.attributes.enabled=true
+{% endif %}