How to monitor Istio with New Relic

New Relic has developed the newrelic-istio-adapter, an open-source tool designed to integrate Istio's telemetry engine, Mixer, with the New Relic observability platform, allowing for the collection and analysis of telemetry data from the Istio service mesh in Kubernetes environments. This adapter leverages the go-telemetry-sdk to transmit both metric and trace data to New Relic, enabling users to monitor critical service metrics such as error rates, latency, request volume, and throughput without the need for additional agents. The initiative aligns with New Relic's commitment to open instrumentation, providing a means to send curated multidimensional metrics and distributed tracing spans to New Relic, enhancing observability for services within the Istio service mesh. The adapter, available on GitHub, offers configurations for easy deployment and integration, and contributions to its development are welcome, with detailed instructions and resources provided for users and developers.