The perfect observability storm with open source leading the way, and a partnership that makes sense

New Relic is one of the leaders in Application Performance Monitoring (APM), which has been on a pivot to observability. Grafana Labs, makers of popular open-source dashboarding platform Grafana, has been on an growth course for a while now.

Today, the two vendors announced an ongoing partnership they claim will drive advanced open instrumentation and visibility for all developers and software teams. The companies delivered new integrations designed to empower engineering teams to solve problems even faster, as well as a free trial of Grafana Enterprise for new and existing New Relic customers.

We’d be lying if we said we saw this coming. In retrospect, however, the partnership seems to makes sense. ZDNet connected with Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt and New Relic Chief Product Officer Bill Staples, and discussed the specifics of the partnership as well as the broader observability landscape.

New Relic has been on a reinvention course for a while now. 2019 marked a pivot to observability, embracing A.I. and open source. The company has updated its New Relic One platform which instruments IT environments and applications, with CEO Lew Cirne noting this is designed to make New Relic easier to consume and address the convergence of logs, infrastructure, and APM.

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