The New Relic Java Telemetry SDK is an easy way to send data to New Relic. The SDK currently supports sending the MELT telemetry data types (Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces) via the following APIs:
- Metric API - for dimensional metrics
- Trace API - for building up traces with spans
- Events API - for custom events
- Log API - for log data
Why is this cool?
Send data to New Relic! No agent required.
Our Telemetry SDK tries to be helpful, so your job of sending telemetry data to New Relic can be done in the right way, easily. We've covered all of the basics for you so you can focus on writing feature code directly related to your business need or interest.
Why would you want to use the telemetry SDK?
We imagine you (or your customers) are interested in the telemetry data, generated by your tool, framework, or code, in New Relic. You can write an exporter to do so! Check out the telemetry_examples module to get started.
For the most recently published version, see Releases
In order to send metrics or spans to New Relic, you will need a New Relic license key for the account to which you want to send data.
Maven dependencies:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.newrelic.telemetry</groupId>
<artifactId>telemetry-core</artifactId>
<version>0.16.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.newrelic.telemetry</groupId>
<artifactId>telemetry-http-okhttp</artifactId>
<version>0.16.0</version>
</dependency>
Gradle dependencies:
implementation("com.newrelic.telemetry:telemetry-core:0.16.0")
implementation("com.newrelic.telemetry:telemetry-http-okhttp:0.16.0")
Take a look at the example code in the telemetry_examples module. We recommend looking at the TelemetryClientExample first.
Note: If you do not want to include okhttp as a transitive dependency, you will need to provide a custom implementation of the
com.newrelic.telemetry.http.HttpPoster interface, rather than using the com.newrelic.telemetry:telemetry-http-okhttp library.
The Telemetry SDK uses slf4j for all logging. Having a slf4j implementation in your application is required in order to see log information. See the slf4j documentation for details.
The various builders for the Telemetry SDK components include an option to enableAuditLogging. Enabling this option will cause the
SDK to product additional logging at DEBUG level. This logging includes the details of every payload sent to the New Relic APIs, and the responses from those APIs.
WARNING: If you enable audit logging, all the data in your spans and metrics will be sent to your logging system. It is recommended that you only enable audit logging when absolutely necessary.
The various builders for the Telemetry SDK components include an option to useLicenseKey. Enabling this option will cause the SDK to inform the API endpoints the key you provided is a New Relic license key.
- Java 11 or greater
- For IDEA:
- Docker & docker-compose must be installed for integration testing
Tips on how to find and query your data in New Relic:
For general querying information, see:
CI builds are run on Github Actions:
The project uses Java 11 and gradle 6 for building, and the gradle wrapper is provided.
To compile, run the tests and build the jars:
$ ./gradlew build
End-to-end integration tests are included. They are implemented with the testcontainers library; mock-server provides the backend.
There are two modes to run the integration tests.
- Run with gradle:
$ ./gradlew integration_test:test - Run the integration test classes in IDEA directly. It should "just work".
This project uses the google-java-format code style, and it is easily applied via an included gradle plugin:
$ ./gradlew googleJavaFormat verifyGoogleJavaFormat
Please be sure to run the formatter before committing any changes. There is a pre-commit-hook.sh which can
be applied automatically before commits by moving it into .git/hooks/pre-commit.
This is the core module for sending dimensional metrics and spans to New Relic. It contains low level APIs as well as higher level "best practice" implementations that compose interactions with the lower level modules. The library is published under maven coordinates:
com.newrelic.telemetry:telemetry-core
In order to send metrics and spans to New Relic, you will also need a New Relic license key for the account to which you want to send data.
This is an implementation of the required http client interface using Java 11 JDK classes as the underlying library.
The telemetry-http-java11 library is published under the maven coordinates:
com.newrelic.telemetry:telemetry-http-java11
This is an implementation of the required http client interface using okhttp as the underlying library.
The telemetry-http-okhttp library is published under the maven coordinates:
com.newrelic.telemetry:telemetry-http-okhttp
Example code for using the metrics and telemetry APIs.
Integration test module. Uses docker-compose based tests to test the SDK end-to-end.
As described here,
the TelemetryClient makes use of a default backoff strategy when it encounters data ingest errors.
Specifically, this strategy tries again after 1 second, then doubles the wait after each attempt
until a max wait of 15 seconds is reached. After 10 failed attempts, data is dropped and a message
is logged.
The backoff strategy is not currently pluggable. Please file an issue or submit a pull request if you need greater control over this behavior.
New Relic hosts and moderates an online forum where customers can interact with New Relic employees as well as other customers to get help and share best practices. Like all official New Relic open source projects, there's a related Community topic in the New Relic Explorers Hub: Java Agent Forum Topics.
We encourage your contributions to improve New Relic Java Telemetry SDK! Keep in mind that when you submit your pull request, you'll need to sign the CLA via the click-through using CLA-Assistant. You only have to sign the CLA one time per project.
If you have any questions, or to execute our corporate CLA (which is required if your contribution is on behalf of a company), drop us an email at [email protected].
A note about vulnerabilities
As noted in our security policy, New Relic is committed to the privacy and security of our customers and their data. We believe that providing coordinated disclosure by security researchers and engaging with the security community are important means to achieve our security goals.
If you believe you have found a security vulnerability in this project or any of New Relic's products or websites, we welcome and greatly appreciate you reporting it to New Relic through HackerOne.
If you would like to contribute to this project, review these guidelines.
To all contributors, we thank you! Without your contribution, this project would not be what it is today. We also host a community project page dedicated to New Relic Telemetry SDK (Java).
The New Relic Telemetry APIs are rate limited. Please reference the documentation for New Relic Metric API and New Relic Trace API requirements and limits on the specifics of the rate limits.
The New Relic Java Telemetry SDK is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
The New Relic Java Telemetry SDK also uses source code from third party libraries. Full details on which libraries are used and the terms under which they are licensed can be found in the third party notices document.