Dapr community call November 24th 2020 - follow up

In this video I provide some clarification around instrumenting Dapr applications using OpenTelemetry and integration into New Relic.

Instrumenting applications in code is just one way of doing it and it allows to enrich the traces with custom attributes, tags or other types of information that may be required.

However, this is not the only way of exporting traces and metrics. One of the value propositions of Dapr is the fact that you do not have to instrument your application in order to capture traces and metrics. You can define an exporter in Zipkin format and tell it to send the traces to a given exporter address directly. New Relic provides native support for such traces by leveraging the Trace API.