Configure an application or Collector to send OTLP telemetry to New Relic within its ingest limits

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Verified steps

  1. Point the OTLP exporter at the correct regional endpoint (e.g. `https://otlp.nr-data.net` for US, `https://otlp.eu01.nr-data.net` for EU)
  2. Set the `api-key` header (via `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS`) to your New Relic license key
  3. Prefer `http/protobuf` transport and enable gzip (or zstd) compression to reduce payload size
  4. Keep individual OTLP payloads under New Relic's documented size limit, batching and tuning batch processor settings so requests don't exceed it
  5. Respect attribute limits (string length, attribute counts per resource/scope/record, array sizes) to avoid truncation or rejected data
  6. For metrics, prefer delta temporality and exponential histograms, since New Relic's backend is fundamentally delta-based

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