Top 9 New Relic Technical Blogs and Resources of August 2022
Tags: devops, o11y, newrelic, monitoring
Published: 2022-08-30 17:54:58

[See everything in your tech stack with these logging best practices](https://newrelic.com/blog/best-practices/best-log-management-practices?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=global-fy23-q2-dev_to_techupdates)
Looking for the best ways to manage logs? Learn the basics of log management and gain visibility into how complex applications and systems perform.

[4 best practices for operational efficiency: Telemetry, naming conventions, automation, and tool consolidation](https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/operational-efficiency-best-practices?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=global-fy23-q2-dev_to_techupdates)
Learn 4 ways to improve efficiency through telemetry, naming conventions, automation, and tool consolidation.

[How Hex Technologies ships fast and scales an effective engineering team](https://newrelic.com/blog/nerdlog/hex-founders-interview?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=global-fy23-q2-dev_to_techupdates)
In this New Relic for Startups Q&A, learn about Hex Technologies founders and how they debug faster, build, and scale an effective engineering team with New Relic for Startups.

[Better data, zero configuration with OpenTelemetry exponential histograms](https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/comparison-agents-opentelemetry?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=global-fy23-q2-dev_to_techupdates)
Learn about the new exponential bucket histograms in OpenTelemetry, how they work, the problem they solve, and how to start using them now. New Relic already supports [ingesting exponential bucket histograms over OTLP](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/more-integrations/open-source-telemetry-integrations/opentelemetry/opentelemetry-setup/?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=global-fy23-q2-dev_to_techupdates), and we encourage you to use them to improve your OpenTelemetry experience.

[Feature comparison: New Relic agents and OpenTelemetry](https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/comparison-agents-opentelemetry?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=global-fy23-q2-dev_to_techupdates)
Learn which New Relic observability features are currently available for New Relic agents and OpenTelemetry instrumentation. A detailed feature comparison is available on our documentation site: [Compare New Relic agents with OpenTelemetry](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/more-integrations/open-source-telemetry-integrations/opentelemetry/opentelemetry-comparison?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=global-fy23-q2-dev_to_techupdates).

[The state of Java after Java 17](https://newrelic.com/blog/nerdlog/state-of-java-2022?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=global-fy23-q2-dev_to_techupdates)
Long-term support loyalty, containers, and open source! Read the New Relic report on the state of the Java ecosystem in 2022.

[How Veygo uses serverless to improve customer experience](https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/veygo-serverless-customer-experience?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=global-fy23-q2-dev_to_techupdates) 
Mark Sainty, Software Engineering Team Lead at Veygo, describes how the short-term car insurance company is optimizing IT resources and real-time customer data. He describes monitoring serverless architecture with dashboards and shares four metrics his team uses.

[Monitoring multiple network devices with New Relic](https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/monitoring-multiple-devices?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=global-fy23-q2-dev_to_techupdates) 
In part two of a series on absolutely simple network monitoring from Developer Relations Engineer Leon Adato, learn how to set up multiple routers and monitor them with New Relic.


[Best practices for fixing your alerts](https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/best-practices-for-alerts?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=global-fy23-q2-dev_to_techupdates) 
Learn when you need alerts and when you don’t. Alerts should 1) respect employees’ time, 2) provide context, and 3) be urgent and non-optional. 





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