Announcing OpenTelemetry Beta support in New Relic One
Blog post from New Relic
OpenTelemetry has announced its first beta release, introducing a specification for consistency across projects and SDKs for languages like Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Erlang, marking a significant milestone in the project's development. This release merges OpenTracing and OpenCensus into one open standard, simplifying developer choices and promoting observability with backward compatibility for existing users. OpenTelemetry offers a vendor-neutral approach to telemetry, allowing developers to instrument their code once and send data to multiple backends without modifying existing instrumentation. New Relic supports this initiative, providing exporters for OpenTelemetry’s Go and Java SDKs, aiming to enhance user experience by integrating with New Relic One. While OpenTelemetry is still in beta and not recommended for production use, New Relic encourages exploration and participation in its development. The company emphasizes creating a vendor-neutral platform and invites users to contribute to the evolving support for OpenTelemetry in New Relic One.