Replicate New Relic Language Agent Error Filtering Functionality
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Replicate New Relic Language Agent Error Filtering Functionality


Summary

This article explains how New Relic represents errors through metrics and spans and highlights the importance of filtering non-actionable errors to prevent alert fatigue and inflated error rates. It outlines methods for ignoring specific errors using New Relic Language Agents or the OpenTelemetry Collector Transform Processor, allowing teams to maintain cleaner monitoring dashboards while still preserving essential trace data for debugging.
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