How we fixed head-based sampling in OpenTelemetry
Head-based sampling can break throughput charts without sampling metadata. Learn how OpenTelemetry tracestate probability fields fixed this in Java, JS, and Python.
Collecting JMX metrics with OpenTelemetry
Learn how to collect Tomcat JMX metrics with OpenTelemetry using the Java agent or jmx-scraper, then extend coverage with custom YAML rules and validate output.
Bridging the Gap: End-to-End Observability from Cloud Native to Mainframe
Achieving end-to-end observability in hybrid enterprise environments, where modern cloud-native applications interact with critical, yet often opaque, IBM mainframe systems is a challenge. By utilizing IBM Z Observability Connect, which enables OTel output, with Elastic Observability is a solution, transforming your mainframe black box into a fully observable component in your deployment
OpenTelemetry Data Quality Insights with the Instrumentation Score and Elastic
This post explores the Instrumentation Score for OpenTelemetry data quality, sharing practical insights, key learnings, and a hands-on look at implementing this approach with Elastic's powerful observability features.
Dynamic workload discovery on Kubernetes now supported with EDOT Collector
Discover how Elastic's OpenTelemetry Collector leverages Kubernetes pod annotations providing dynamic workload discovery and improves automated metric and log collection for Kubernetes clusters.
Announcing GA of Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent
Elastic announces general availability of the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Java Agent, a fully OTel-compatible agent with a rich set of useful additional features.
Introducing Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry
Elastic is proud to introduce Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT), which contains Elastic’s versions of the OpenTelemetry Collector and several language SDKs like Python, Java, .NET, and NodeJS. These help provide enhanced features and enterprise-grade support for EDOT.
Introducing Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector
We are thrilled to announce the technical preview of the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector. This new offering underscores Elastic dedication to this important framework and highlights our ongoing contributions to make OpenTelemetry the best vendor agnostic data collection framework.
Elastic's collaboration with OpenTelemetry on improving the filelog receiver
Elastic is committed to help OpenTelemetry advance it's logging capabilities. Learn about our collaboration with the OpenTelemetry community on improving the capabilities and quality aspects of the OpenTelemetry Collector's filelog receiver.
Elastic contributes its Universal Profiling agent to OpenTelemetry
Elastic is advancing the adoption of OpenTelemetry with the contribution of its universal profiling agent. Elastic is committed to ensuring a vendor-agnostic ingestion and collection of observability and security telemetry through OpenTelemetry.
Revealing unknowns in your tracing data with inferred spans in OpenTelemetry
Distributed tracing is essential in understanding complex systems, but it can miss latency issue details. By combining profiling techniques with distributed tracing, Elastic provides the inferred spans feature as an extension for the OTel Java SDK.
OpenTelemetry and Elastic: Working together to establish continuous profiling for the community
OpenTelemetry is embracing profiling. Elastic is donating its whole-system continuous profiling agent to OpenTelemetry to further this advancement, empowering OTel users to improve computational efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint.
How to easily add application monitoring in Kubernetes pods
This blog walks through installing the Elastic APM K8s Attacher and shows how to configure your system for both common and non-standard deployments of Elastic APM agents.
Elastic's contribution: Invokedynamic in the OpenTelemetry Java agent
The instrumentation approach in OpenTelemetry's Java Agent comes with some limitations with respect to maintenance and testability. Elastic contributes an invokedynamic-based instrumentation approach that helps overcoming these limitations.
Monitoring Android applications with Elastic APM
Elastic has launched its APM agent for Android applications, allowing developers to track key aspects of applications to help troubleshoot issues and performance flaws with mobile applications, corresponding backend services, and their interactions.