Setting up OpenTelemetry and getting the most from it can be a challenge. To help you optimize your experience, we've created these best practice guides. If you're trying to resolve a specific problem, see our troubleshooting guide.
First, we have an End-to-end implementation guide for OpenTelemetry and New Relic, which gives you in-depth guidance for ensuring you've integrated OpenTelemetry and New Relic optimally.
Other best practice guides include:
- Alerts: Notify yourself about problems by using alerts.
- Attribute lengths: Stay within the limits for attribute names and values.
- Batching: Use batching to avoid rate limiting.
- Browser: Avoid exposing license keys in browser applications.
- Compression: Maximize your payloads.
- Logs: Send logs to New Relic using OpenTelemetry tooling.
- Metrics: Explore how OpenTelemetry metrics are processed in New Relic.
- Resources: Use resources for the entity generating telemetry data.
- Traces: See some requirements and options for traces and spans.
- Versions: Learn more about supported versions.