Quickstart: Get Kubernetes insights and alerts instantly for New Relic with Pixie

In complex cloud-native environments, microservices often utilize various frameworks and languages, making their instrumentation with monitoring tools challenging and time-consuming. To address this, New Relic has developed a quickstart for its Instant Observability platform, offering a comprehensive overview of crucial metrics such as latency, error rates, and throughput from Kubernetes clusters without the need for agents. This solution leverages New Relic's integration with Pixie, utilizing eBPF to automatically gather detailed metrics, events, logs, and traces across applications and network layers. The integration provides a customizable dashboard that highlights latency, errors, and throughput for all observed services, and it includes example alerts that users can tailor to their specific needs. By using New Relic's querying language, NRQL, users can identify function call bottlenecks and locate problematic services within their clusters. This approach allows users to gain insights without manual instrumentation, and New Relic offers free data and user access options to facilitate widespread adoption.