Linkerd is a lightweight, security-focused service mesh for Kubernetes that provides mTLS, observability, and traffic management for microservices. Monitoring Linkerd with OpenTelemetry gives you vendor-neutral, standardized visibility into the health and performance of your service mesh and every workload running inside it.
OpenTelemetry is an open source observability framework that provides IT teams with standardized protocols and tools for collecting and routing telemetry data. Organizations adopting OpenTelemetry gain the advantage of vendor neutrality by using flexible and open-source agents and collectors.
New Relic provides OpenTelemetry observability for Linkerd, ingesting comprehensive metrics from the Linkerd proxy sidecars, control plane components (destination, identity, proxy-injector), and Kubernetes workloads. This enables you to monitor service health, track request rates and latency, analyze mTLS certificate lifecycle, and troubleshoot performance issues across your entire mesh.
This quickstart gives you full observability into your Linkerd service mesh in minutes, whether your cluster is self-hosted or running on EKS, GKE, or AKS.
Included in this quickstart you will find:
Monitor your Kubernetes service mesh with open-source instrumentation that provides vendor neutrality while delivering comprehensive insights into every proxied workload. Track golden signals, mTLS health, control plane performance, and service topology using standardized OpenTelemetry collectors paired with New Relic's powerful visualization and alerting capabilities.