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From a 582ms latency spike to the team that owns it, using Kibana Discover
Getting there takes a data view, some filter pills, a KQL query and a switch to Lucene query syntax, but the part that actually names the team is one ES|QL LOOKUP JOIN against a service catalog index.
OpenTelemetry Java extensions: customize traces without forking the agent
One JAR, loaded at startup by the OpenTelemetry Java agent, lets you filter health checks, rename spans, add resource attributes, and control sampling with no application code changes.
Kubernetes observability: SLO templates that turn alerts into error budgets
Two bad rollouts burned 88% of a 30-day error budget while the SLI still read 99.56%. This post adds four SLO templates that bring burn-rate tracking to the OTel-based alert rules from Part 1, no new instrumentation required.
Elastic Agent now runs as an OpenTelemetry Collector: Less memory overhead, zero config changes
Elastic Agent 9.3 sends logs, metrics and traces through one OTel Collector pipeline, running Beats integrations alongside native OTel sources in a single Fleet-managed agent.
Android application monitoring with OpenTelemetry: distributed tracing from tap to backend
EDOT Android adds mobile APM to your Android app with one Gradle dependency: crash reporting, session tracking and distributed tracing visible in Kibana.
One edit, every dashboard updated: managing Kibana observability at scale with Terraform
Define your golden-signals panels once in a shared HCL library and use for_each to generate every team's dashboard, with drift detection and git rollback built in.
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.
You have the IP, you want the hostname: building a lookup processor for OpenTelemetry
Look up any value from YAML, CSV or DNS inside the OpenTelemetry Collector or wire in your own source through a processor Elastic built and shipped to Collector Contrib.
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.
6x faster at 500 services: how we rebuilt the Kibana APM service map from canvas to React DOM
Each service node shows alert, SLO and anomaly health so you can filter to breaching services only and embed the result on any Kibana dashboard, with full keyboard navigation across the topology.
