Author
Nima Rezainia
Principal Product Manager Observability
Articles

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.

Centrally Managing OTel Collectors with Elastic Agent and Fleet
How Elastic Agent 9.3 unifies Beats and OpenTelemetry (OTel) data collection and delivers central management with Elastic Fleet.

Pivoting Elastic's Data Ingestion to OpenTelemetry
Elastic has fully embraced OpenTelemetry as the backbone of its data ingestion strategy, aligning with the open-source community and contributing to make it the best data collection platform for a broad user base. This move benefits users by providing enhanced flexibility, efficiency, and control over telemetry data.

Deploying Elastic Agent with Confluent Cloud's Elasticsearch Connector
Confluent Cloud users can now use the updated Elasticsearch Sink Connector with Elastic Agent and Elastic Integrations for a fully-managed and highly scalable data ingest architecture.