Getting NodeJS OpenTelemetry data into NewRelic

I had the need to get some OpenTelemetry data out of a NodeJS application, and into NewRelic’s distributed tracing service, but found that there is no way to do it directly, and in this use case, adding a separate collector is more hassle than it’s worth. Luckily, there is an NodeJS OpenTelemetry library which can report to Zipkin, and NewRelic can also ingest Zipkin format data. To use it was relatively straight forward:...

March 12, 2021 · 2 min