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Control how alerts activate, recover and notify: Kibana Universal Alerting in Elastic Observability
Observability Labs

Control how alerts activate, recover and notify: Kibana Universal Alerting in Elastic Observability

Turn ES|QL queries into alert data using Kibana Universal Alerting, and triage Classic and external alerts alongside Universal alerts in a single view.

Tia Milosevic
Meet Elastic nightshift AI SRE, your always-on SRE coworker
Observability Labs

Meet Elastic nightshift AI SRE, your always-on SRE coworker

Elastic's SRE team has been running Elastic nightshift against our own production environment. It picks up incidents that never triggered an alert and shows its working for every conclusion it reaches.

Luca Wintergerst
14 alerts, 1 incident: Measuring alerting rule noise with ES|QL in Elasticsearch
Observability Labs

14 alerts, 1 incident: Measuring alerting rule noise with ES|QL in Elasticsearch

Grouping keys decide how many alerts one incident produces, and because Kibana stamps every alert document with a rule revision, you can measure your alert noise reduction against the same incident that caused the alerts in the first place.

Jeffrey Rengifo
Cross-project search for Elastic Observability: one query across every linked project
Observability Labs

Cross-project search for Elastic Observability: one query across every linked project

Keep your observability data where it lives, and still search, alert, and monitor across every linked Serverless project, easily!

Vinay Chandrasekhar
Skip writing alert rules: 6 ready-made ES|QL templates ship inside the NGINX OTel integration
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Skip writing alert rules: 6 ready-made ES|QL templates ship inside the NGINX OTel integration

Elastic integrations come with alerting rule templates, each one an ES|QL query with a threshold already set. Create Elasticsearch alert rules in minutes, tune them to your traffic, and catch silent data streams early.

Jeffrey Rengifo
Your SLO is on fire; here's how to find the arsonist in Elastic Observability
Observability Labs

Your SLO is on fire; here's how to find the arsonist in Elastic Observability

When SLO alerting flags a burn rate spike, follow the SLI from the alert detail page through bad event spans and trace waterfalls to find the exact dependency burning your SLO error budget, all without leaving the investigation.

Roshan Gonsalkorale
TLS certificate monitoring with Elastic Workflows, Synthetics, and Osquery: Eliminate manual renewals
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TLS certificate monitoring with Elastic Workflows, Synthetics, and Osquery: Eliminate manual renewals

Automate TLS certificate monitoring with Elastic Workflows, Synthetics, and Osquery. Detect expiring certificates, rotate, and verify without human intervention.

Adrian Chen
Automating User Journeys for Synthetic Monitoring with MCP in Elastic
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Automating User Journeys for Synthetic Monitoring with MCP in Elastic

This post explores how you can automatically create user journeys with Synthetic Monitoring in Elastic Observability, TypeScript, and FastMCP, and walks through the app and its workflow.

Jessica Garson
From Uptime to Synthetics in Elastic: Your migration Playbook
Observability Labs

From Uptime to Synthetics in Elastic: Your migration Playbook

Effortlessly migrate your existing Uptime TCP, ICMP, and HTTP monitors to Elastic Synthetics with this comprehensive guide, leveraging Private Locations and Synthetics Projects for efficient, future-proof monitoring.

Carles Salvador
Smarter Alerting Arrives with Faster Triage, Clearer Groupings, and Actionable Guidance
Observability Labs

Smarter Alerting Arrives with Faster Triage, Clearer Groupings, and Actionable Guidance

Exploring the latest enhancements in Elastic Stack alerting, including improved related alert grouping, linking dashboards to alert rules, and embedding investigation guides into alerts.

Drew Post
Build better Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from logs and metrics
Observability Labs

Build better Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from logs and metrics

To help manage operations and business metrics, Elastic Observability's SLO (Service Level Objectives) feature was introduced in 8.12. This blog reviews this feature and how you can use it with Elastic's AI Assistant to meet SLOs.

Bahubali Shetti
How to enable Kubernetes alerting with Elastic Observability
Observability Labs

How to enable Kubernetes alerting with Elastic Observability

In the Kubernetes world, different personas demand different kinds of insights. In this post, we’ll focus on alerting and provide an overview of how alerts in Elastic Observability can help users quickly identify Kubernetes problems.

Christos Markou

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