Connect Kafka to New Relic for Real-Time Monitoring and Observability

What this post added

Introduces the New Relic connector for Kafka Connect, detailing its configuration for ingesting Kafka events and metrics into New Relic. It covers connector setup, data formats for events (eventType, timestamp) and metrics (name, type, value, timestamp, interval.ms, attributes), and error handling strategies like dead letter queues, retries for network errors, and payload splitting for large messages. The post also mentions upcoming support for logs and traces.