OpenTelemetry provides a standardised approach to telemetry data collection in modern, cloud-native environments. New Relic enhances the observability experience, allowing organisations to gain deeper insights, troubleshoot issues faster, and optimise their applications' performance.

In this 90-minute workshop and lab session, you’ll get hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry instrumented entities within a sandbox environment, learn different agent event types and use the New Relic explorer to identify trends and related entities.

In this workshop you will learn:

• An overview of OpenTelemetry
• How to implement the OpenTelemetry Collector
• Understanding signals within OpenTelemetry
• Agent event types

The lab sessions will cover:

• Working with OpenTelemetry entities and workloads
• Querying application data with New Relic Query Language
• How to use the New Relic Explorer to:
  • Filter and group related entities
  • Identify trends
  • Get a high-level view of systems status