New Relic announced
that it will now provide native support for OpenTelemetry and
Prometheus-instrumented hosts and Kubernetes clusters at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024.
With this launch, organizations can now instrument Kubernetes clusters
and hosts using the OpenTelemetry collector and Prometheus Node Exporter
in a single step. They also gain instant access to curated UIs that
automatically correlate performance across applications and
infrastructure.
Open source instrumentation frameworks like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
are being rapidly adopted because they are standardized, vendor
agnostic, community supported, and cost effective. However,
instrumenting and setting up these open source tools to work with
commercial observability platforms requires significant time and
expertise. Engineers need to gather the right telemetry for each
resource, establish tagging for correlation, create dashboards, and set
thresholds of acceptable performance. Even with these measures in place,
teams often find it challenging to correlate data across different
dashboards to determine the cause during an incident response. New Relic
solves these challenges by making it easier to instrument and get
visibility into applications and infrastructure telemetry data to lower
incident response times.
"Open source frameworks like OpenTelemetry are an integral part of the
tech stack, and that reliance continues to grow. Most observability
platforms only offer primitive support for these tools. There needs to
be a shift in the industry to meet developers where they are," said New Relic Chief Product Officer Manav Khurana.
"That is why we offer native support for OpenTelemetry in our platform.
We are now simplifying observability for engineers using OpenTelemetry
and Prometheus so they can spend less time on instrumentation, setup,
and troubleshooting and more time on what matters most to them -
shipping code and driving innovation."
"One of the major reasons we chose New Relic over other observability
platforms is because of how deeply and natively integrated it is with
OpenTelemetry," said ZeroFlucs CTO Carly Christensen. "They
continue to push ahead of any other vendor on the market by adding new
features like native support for OpenTelemetry and
Prometheus-instrumented hosts and Kubernetes clusters. This, combined
with the cost effectiveness of their platform - they charge based on
consumption - is why we rely on New Relic as our single source of truth
for observability."
New Relic's native support populates golden signals in its native UIs
for hosts and Kubernetes, with automatic correlation between application
and infrastructure telemetry. As a result, teams can quickly detect and
isolate the cause behind performance issues across their applications
and related infrastructure in one place.
New capabilities include:
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One-step instrumentation for Kubernetes clusters and hosts using the OpenTelemetry collector and Prometheus Node Exporter.
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Instant access to out-of-the-box dashboards and native UIs with standardized golden metrics.
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Automated relationship mapping between application and infrastructure to render topology maps and understand how the performance of one layer impacts another.
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Faster debugging enabled by automatic correlation with application and infrastructure logs.
The latest support for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus-instrumented hosts
and Kubernetes clusters will be available to customers in the coming
months.