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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.
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.
Common ES|QL queries for Kubernetes monitoring
Copy-paste ES|QL queries for Elasticsearch that turn memory pressure and error spikes into a five-minute diagnosis.
3 signals, 2 env vars, 0 collectors: OpenTelemetry with Python and Elastic's Managed OTLP Endpoint
Instrument a Flask API with OpenTelemetry and ship traces, metrics, and logs to Elastic Cloud using just 2 environment variables, no collector needed.
Contextual AI: Stop pinging the SRE: three MCP tools that turn Elastic Agent Builder into your team's runbook
Build three MCP tools in Elastic Agent Builder that read endpoint health, recent deploys and SLO burn rate directly in your editor. Encode your platform team's runbook once; every developer gets self-serve production context without pinging an SRE.
ES|QL queries for debugging LLM latency, cost and GPU saturation
Learn how to investigate LLM latency, token cost and GPU saturation using ES|QL against OpenTelemetry traces and get a root cause, not just a symptom.
How to trace MCP server tool calls with OpenTelemetry and Elastic APM
Add OpenTelemetry tracing to an MCP server, visualize tool call performance in Elastic APM, and query the trace data from Claude Desktop using the Agent Builder MCP.
Connecting Cursor to Production Logs via the Elastic MCP Server
Learn how to connect Cursor to your Elastic APM data using the Elastic Agent Builder MCP server, so you can debug production errors and make UI decisions backed by real usage data without leaving your editor.
How to cut Elasticsearch log storage costs with LogsDB
Learn how to enable LogsDB index mode in Elasticsearch and measure real storage savings. We compare a standard index against a LogsDB index using Apache logs and show how much storage you can reclaim.