In this milestone, we focused on making New Relic integration first-class in the Heka Insights Agent, while still using the same OTLP HTTP exporter foundation.

Repository: https://github.com/ronin1770/heka-insights-agent

Milestone 5 Goal

Milestone 5 was about shipping a reliable, low-friction New Relic path without creating a separate proprietary exporter.

Scope covered:

New Relic preset configuration layer

Automatic New Relic auth header injection

Endpoint and required field validation

Documentation updates with practical examples

Integration tests for preset behavior

What We Changed

1. New Relic preset mode ( EXPORTER_TYPE=newrelic_otlp )

We added a preset resolver that maps New Relic-specific environment variables into OTLP HTTP exporter inputs.

Required variables:

NEWRELIC_OTLP_ENDPOINT

NEWRELIC_API_KEY

NEWRELIC_SERVICE_NAME

Optional variables:

NEWRELIC_ENVIRONMENT

NEWRELIC_HOST_NAME

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