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title: Collector Observability Public Preview
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/whats-new/2026/02/whats-new-02-24-collector-observability
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New Relic’s Collector Observability provides customers with a dedicated, first-class experience for monitoring the health and performance of their OTel Collectors, a proxy that acts as the ‘middleware’ for a business’s observability data. Operating OTel Collectors can leave engineers flying blind because it’s a challenge to distinguish between resource saturation, configuration errors, or connectivity issues. New Relic’s Collector Observability capability reduces these barriers and provides real-time visibility into collector health and performance. This empowers customers to resolve bottlenecks before they lead to data loss, ensuring a seamless and scalable path to OTel adoption.

## Key Benefits:

-   **End-to-end pipeline health monitoring** visualizes the entire "receive-process-export" lifecycle to pinpoint misconfigurations and bottlenecks instantly.
-   **Predictive resource saturation** to track CPU and memory consumption to identify memory leaks and prevent collector crashes before they occur.
-   **Real-time backpressure detection** surfaces internal queue usage to identify overwhelmed collectors before they start dropping telemetry data.

Start leveraging OpenTelemetry seamlessly within New Relic’s unified platform today.

### Find out more:

-   [Learn More](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/opentelemetry/collector-observability/collector-observability)
-   [Blog](https://newrelic.com/blog/news/first-class-opentelemetry-break-free-without-breaking-workflows)

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