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Date Published
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Peter Simkins
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695
Language
English
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None

Summary

You're looking for a vendor-agnostic metric collection pipeline that consolidates disparate observability data from various tools like StatsD and DogStatsD, trace spans, and synthetic checks. Veneur is an open-source tool built by Stripe that provides a simple way to send metrics to a single data store, reducing tool sprawl and costs. It offers features such as pre-aggregating metrics, improved efficiency, and reliability, making it easier to visualize metrics anywhere. The article explains how to install the New Relic Veneur sink, configure it with an Insert API key, and view metrics in New Relic.