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Articles by Felix Barnsteiner

Tech Lead

Felix joined Elastic in 2018 where he built the Elastic APM Java agent from the ground up. Two years in, he took the role of the tech lead for the APM Agents team. Another two years later, he became tech lead of application observability. Since Oct 2023, Felix is a floating tech lead in observability, focusing on strategical initiatives, such as working with other teams to make Elasticsearch the best place to store your observability signals. Felix is also a passionate home barista and loves practicing latte art.

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Elastic Observability 8.8: Efficient operations with GitOps-based synthetics monitoring and direct AWS Firehose ingest

Elastic Observability 8.8 delivers the general availability release of synthetic monitoring, the ability to ingest data directly to Elastic Cloud from Amazon Kinesis Firehose, and new capabilities for managing service level objectives.

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Felix Barnsteiner
Vinay Chandrasekhar
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Embracing invokedynamic to tame class loaders in Java agents

Byte Buddy makes it easy to write Java agents without bytecode know-how. But class loaders and other complexities can still ruin your day. Here's a novel invokedynamic-based architecture that simplifies agent development.

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Felix Barnsteiner
Rafael Winterhalter
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Performance Tuning of the Elastic APM Java Agent

Learn about some of the different Elastic APM Java agent configuration options that can be used to improve latency, CPU, RAM, and/or network performance.

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Felix Barnsteiner
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Elastic APM Java Agent is Generally Available

The Elastic APM Java agent is now generally available. Learn how to instrument this agent to monitor the performance of your Java applications.

By
Eyal Koren
Felix Barnsteiner
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Elastic APM Java Agent Beta Released

We are happy to beta release the Java agent for Elastic APM. Kick the tires, let us know what you think.

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Felix Barnsteiner
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Elasticsearch as a Time Series Data Store

Ever wondered how Elasticsearch handles time series metrics? Felix Barnsteiner from stagemonitor - an open source solution to application performance monitoring

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Felix Barnsteiner

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