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title: Overview of OpenTelemetry integrations
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/opentelemetry/get-started/opentelemetry-get-started-intro
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The OpenTelemetry project has a broad scope including [API and SDK specifications](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/), [instrumentation](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/instrumentation/), the [Collector](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/), [semantic conventions](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/), the [OTLP](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otlp/) protocol, and more. New Relic aims to have first-class support for OpenTelemetry and has a wide variety of platform capabilities that make it easy to use OpenTelemetry tools.

The pages below focus on common integration patterns, providing a foundation for utilizing OpenTelemetry effectively with New Relic. While not exhaustive, it highlights how users typically leverage these tools and the New Relic platform capabilities built upon them.

[APM monitoring](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/opentelemetry/get-started/apm-monitoring/opentelemetry-apm-intro/)

Monitor your applications and services by configuring the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) exporter to send data to New relic via the New Relic OTLP endpoint.

[Infrastructure monitoring](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/opentelemetry/get-started/collector-infra-monitoring/opentelemetry-collector-infra-intro)

Monitor your infrastructure hosts, containers, and more by configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector to send data to New Relic.

[General data processing](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/opentelemetry/get-started/collector-processing/opentelemetry-collector-processing-intro)

Monitor all other data by using the OpenTelemetry Collector to receive, process (enriching, transforming, sampling, filtering, etc), and export telemetry data to New Relic.