Announcing general availability of New Relic’s native OpenTelemetry support

New Relic has announced the general availability of its native support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), offering full support for Trace data and early access for Metrics and Logs. This development allows users to leverage New Relic's high-performance observability platform with features like long-term storage, powerful querying, and intelligent analytics. By integrating with Amazon Web Services' Distro for OpenTelemetry, users can enhance the observability of AWS workloads. OpenTelemetry serves as the standard for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting metric, log, and trace data, enabling users to better understand and troubleshoot application performance. The platform supports stable specifications for Trace data and evolving ones for Metric and Log data, with version 1.0 SDKs available for several programming languages. New Relic's native support simplifies the process of ingesting OpenTelemetry data, providing comprehensive visibility into the entire technology stack. Users can easily configure the OTLP exporter to send telemetry data to New Relic, either by using an OpenTelemetry SDK or through AWS instructions with Docker Compose.