New Relic (Stats and Tracing)

• Introduction
• Creating the exporter
• Viewing your metrics
• Viewing your traces

Introduction

New Relic is a real-time monitoring system that supports distributed tracing and monitoring.

Its OpenCensus Go exporter is available at https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-opencensus-exporter-go Also check New Relic Open Census integration page.

Installation

To install, just go get this package with

$ go get -u github.com/newrelic/newrelic-opencensus-exporter-go

Creating the exporter

The nrcensus package provides an exporter for sending OpenCensus stats and traces to New Relic.

To use, simply instantiate a new Exporter using nrcensus.NewExporter with your service name and Insights API key and register it with the OpenCensus view and/or trace API.

package main

import (
    "github.com/newrelic/newrelic-opencensus-exporter-go/nrcensus"
    "go.opencensus.io/stats/view"
    "go.opencensus.io/trace"
)

func main() {
    exporter, err := nrcensus.NewExporter("My-OpenCensus-App", "__YOUR_NEW_RELIC_INSIGHTS_API_KEY__")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    view.RegisterExporter(exporter)
    trace.RegisterExporter(exporter)

    // create stats, traces, etc
}

Viewing your metrics

Please visit https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-ingest-apis/get-data-new-relic/metric-api/view-query-you-metric-data

Viewing your traces

Please visit https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/graphql-api/tutorials/nerdgraph-graphiql-distributed-trace-data-tutorial