Running the OpenTelemetry community demo app in New Relic

This blog post details the process of deploying the New Relic fork of the OpenTelemetry Community demo application in Kubernetes, emphasizing the use of Helm charts to facilitate monitoring through the OpenTelemetry Collector. It explains modifications made to the demo app, such as incorporating environment variables specific to New Relic and offering demo scenarios via feature flags managed by a service called flagd. The post guides users through enabling feature flags to simulate errors and how to navigate data using New Relic's platform, demonstrating how errors impact service metrics. Furthermore, it introduces the use of the nr-k8s-otel-collector Helm chart for monitoring Kubernetes clusters, which is part of a preview program and offers insights into ongoing and planned developments for the fork. The author, Reese Lee, also provides additional resources for learning more about OpenTelemetry and New Relic's integration, while clarifying that the views expressed are her own and not necessarily those of New Relic.