Scale monitoring capabilities with telemetry

Open source software is increasingly dominating cloud-native instrumentation, with a significant shift expected by 2025 towards open-source solutions for cloud-native application monitoring, as predicted by Gartner. New Relic emphasizes the challenges posed by tool fragmentation and the operational burdens of managing open-source data stores, which often lead to inefficiencies and increased costs. To address these issues, New Relic has introduced the Telemetry Data Platform, a unified, fully managed SaaS platform designed to ingest, analyze, visualize, and alert on telemetry data from various sources, including open-source and proprietary tools, thereby streamlining observability practices and reducing mean time to resolution. The platform promises enterprise-grade security, scalability, and compatibility with existing tools like Grafana, allowing organizations to consolidate their monitoring efforts and enabling more efficient issue resolution. While the blog underscores the potential of open-source solutions, it also highlights the complexities involved and suggests a comprehensive, centralized approach to managing telemetry data to enhance observability and operational efficiency.