New Relic Deepens Commitment to Open Source

Bangalore, March 21, 2024—New Relic, the all-in-one observability platform for each engineer, introduced that it’ll now present native help for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus-instrumented hosts and Kubernetes clusters at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024. With this launch, organizations can now instrument Kubernetes clusters and hosts utilizing the OpenTelemetry collector and Prometheus Node Exporter in a single step. They additionally acquire immediate entry to curated UIs that robotically correlate efficiency throughout purposes and infrastructure.

Open supply instrumentation frameworks like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus are being quickly adopted as a result of they’re standardized, vendor agnostic, group supported, and value efficient. However, instrumenting and establishing these open supply instruments to work with business observability platforms requires vital time and experience. Engineers want to collect the best telemetry for every useful resource, set up tagging for correlation, create dashboards, and set thresholds of acceptable efficiency. Even with these measures in place, groups typically discover it difficult to correlate information throughout totally different dashboards to decide the trigger throughout an incident response. New Relic solves these challenges by making it simpler to instrument and get visibility into purposes and infrastructure telemetry information to decrease incident response occasions.

“Open supply frameworks like OpenTelemetry are an integral a part of the tech stack, and that reliance continues to develop. Most observability platforms solely supply primitive help for these instruments. There wants to be a shift within the business to meet builders the place they’re,” stated New Relic Chief Product Officer Manav Khurana. “That is why we provide native help for OpenTelemetry in our platform. We are actually simplifying observability for engineers utilizing OpenTelemetry and Prometheus to allow them to spend much less time on instrumentation, setup, and troubleshooting and extra time on what issues most to them – delivery code and driving innovation.”

“One of the main causes we selected New Relic over different observability platforms is due to how deeply and natively built-in it’s with OpenTelemetry,” stated ZeroFlucs CTO Carly Christensen. “They proceed to push forward of another vendor in the marketplace by including new options like native help for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus-instrumented hosts and Kubernetes clusters. This, mixed with the price effectiveness of their platform – they cost based mostly on consumption – is why we depend on New Relic as our single supply of fact for observability.”

New Relic’s native help populates golden indicators in its native UIs for hosts and Kubernetes, with automated correlation between software and infrastructure telemetry. As a outcome, groups can rapidly detect and isolate the trigger behind efficiency points throughout their purposes and associated infrastructure in a single place.

New capabilities embrace:

• One-step instrumentation for Kubernetes clusters and hosts utilizing the OpenTelemetry collector and Prometheus Node Exporter.
• Instant entry to out-of-the-box dashboards and native UIs with standardized golden metrics.
• Automated relationship mapping between software and infrastructure to render topology maps and perceive how the efficiency of 1 layer impacts one other.
• Faster debugging enabled by automated correlation with software and infrastructure logs.