OpenTelemetry (OTel) is recognized as a standard for instrumenting applications and infrastructure, offering promises of flexibility and vendor neutrality, but its adoption often presents challenges due to the extensive time and expertise required for implementation. New Relic addresses these challenges by simplifying the OTel adoption process with a convergence release that normalizes telemetry across its APM experience and correlates data from Kubernetes environments, providing a unified view of application and infrastructure health. The company offers pre-configured NRDOT Collectors to ease deployment and maintain alignment with community standards, aiming to reduce operational overhead and enable seamless scaling. By integrating OTel with New Relic’s proprietary instrumentation, organizations can avoid complexity while benefiting from open standards, thus ensuring scalability and cost-effectiveness without vendor lock-in. New Relic also provides dedicated support and resources to help engineering teams accelerate their migration to OTel and optimize observability efforts.