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Nima Rezainia

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Elastic Agent now runs as an OpenTelemetry Collector: Less memory overhead, zero config changes
17 August 2026
OpenTelemetryElastic AgentObservability

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.

Nima Rezainia

Centrally Managing OTel Collectors with Elastic Agent and Fleet
24 March 2026
OpenTelemetryElastic 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.

Nima Rezainia

Pivoting Elastic's Data Ingestion to OpenTelemetry
3 June 2025
OpenTelemetryElastic AgentAPM

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.

Nima Rezainia

Deploying Elastic Agent with Confluent Cloud's Elasticsearch Connector
22 January 2025
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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.

Nima Rezainia

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