New Relic Traces API
Distributed trace span ingestion
New Relic Traces API is one of 41 APIs that New Relic publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 111 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Traces. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, an API reference, a JSON-LD context, rate-limit docs, and 111 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 8 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://insights-collector.newrelic.com, https://insights-collector.eu01.nr-data.net.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
New Relic Traces API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as Api-Key (apiKey).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
apiKey— New Relic License Key or Ingest API Key
Paths & Operations 1
Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Distributed trace span ingestion
Schemas 8
The contract defines 8 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ZipkinSpan (11 properties), Span (4 properties), ErrorResponse (2 properties), SpanBatch (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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