Author
Carly Richmond
Developer Advocate Lead
Carly is Developer Advocate Lead 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 on both her personal blog and the Elastic blog.
She enjoys cooking, photography, drinking tea, and chasing after her young son in her spare time.
Articles
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 OpenTelemetry, OpenLit, and Elastic
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
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.
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.