While it is easier to use New Relic Agents to capture telemetry automatically, using OpenTelemetry gives you the benefit of:
- Taking control of your telemetry data
- Standardized telemetry data
- Vendor neutrality
In this example, you can easily add another exporter to send your telemetry data to another observability backend, opensource or otherwise without having to add any other agent
Akhil Gautam
Software Developer @bigbinary -- Ruby, JavaScript & Golang enthusiast
If we are already exporting it to newrelic, wouldn't it be easier to just use the newrelic's agents?