Carly Richmond

Carly Richmond

Developer Advocate & Manager

Carly is a Developer Advocate and Manager at Elastic. Before joining Elastic in 2022, she spent over 10 years working as a software engineer, scrum master, and engineering leader at a large investment bank. She is a UI engineer who occasionally dabbles in writing backend services, a speaker, and a regular blogger.

Articles by Carly Richmond

AI agent observability and monitoring with OTel, OpenLit & Elastic

Learn how to monitor AI web agents to identify performance bottlenecks, token waste, and hallucinations using

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Web Frontend Instrumentation and Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and Elastic

Learn how frontend instrumentation differs to backend, and the current state of client web instrumentation in OpenTelemetry

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Pruning incoming log volumes with Elastic

To drop or not to drop (events) is the question, not only in deciding what events and fields to remove from your logs but also in the various tools used. Learn about using Beats, Logstash, Elastic Agent, Ingest Pipelines, and OTel Collectors.

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Two sides of the same coin: Uniting testing and monitoring with Synthetic Monitoring

DevOps aims to establish complementary practices across development and operations. See how Playwright, @elastic/synthetics, GitHub Actions, and Elastic Synthetics can unite development and SRE teams in validating and monitoring the user experience.

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