Three regions, three Kibanas, one view: Cross-cluster search comes to Elastic Synthetics
Monitors from every connected cluster appear in one Kibana, with journey waterfalls, screenshots, errors and certificates. Nothing is replicated, and each cluster still owns its monitors.
How we moved the OpenTelemetry Java agent to invokedynamic in 70+ pull requests
We did the same migration twice, three years apart, and the second time there were a hundred contributors instead of three. What changes when you rebuild how a Java agent instruments code and nothing in production is allowed to break.
YAML meets IConfiguration: Declarative configuration for the OpenTelemetry .NET SDK
You can change sampling without shipping a new build, because the first declarative configuration package parses YAML into a typed model and projects it into the flat keys the OpenTelemetry .NET SDK already reads.
Your trace stops at the span; continuous profiling with OpenTelemetry doesn’t
Continuous profiling sampled an unmodified Java app serving 30,150 requests on a little over half a CPU core, with no code change and no restart.
The service with the most errors was healthy: root cause analysis from logs with ES|QL
Metrics ranked three services identically at 19.1%. Four ES|QL queries over the same 4,688 OpenTelemetry log records traced 955 of 956 failure chains back to one of them, and needed no service dependency model to do it.
Telemetry Policy: change OpenTelemetry sampling and log levels at runtime, no restart
Telemetry Policy says what you want to happen and leaves each component to work out how. Change an OpenTelemetry Java agent's trace sampling to 1% and the JVM keeps serving traffic.
LLM tracing in Elastic APM: prompts, responses, and token counts in the span view
In a twenty-call agentic trace, you can see which span is using the most tokens and read the prompt that caused it. Both live in Elastic APM, so there is no second tool to run.
Android application monitoring with OpenTelemetry: distributed tracing from tap to backend
EDOT Android adds mobile APM to your Android app with one Gradle dependency: crash reporting, session tracking and distributed tracing visible in Kibana.
How we rebuilt the APM service map for incident time: the design story behind Observability 9.5
14 enterprise interviews, two prototype rounds, one rebuilt APM service map. The design story behind Elastic Observability 9.5.
Your SLO is on fire; here's how to find the arsonist in Elastic Observability
When SLO alerting flags a burn rate spike, follow the SLI from the alert detail page through bad event spans and trace waterfalls to find the exact dependency burning your SLO error budget, all without leaving the investigation.
6x faster at 500 services: how we rebuilt the Kibana APM service map from canvas to React DOM
Each service node shows alert, SLO and anomaly health so you can filter to breaching services only and embed the result on any Kibana dashboard, with full keyboard navigation across the topology.
Four clicks from alert to root cause: how Elastic Observability links APM services to Kubernetes infrastructure
Check service dependencies and compare per-pod CPU, memory and network trends on the Infrastructure tab to find which instance is causing trouble, all without leaving the alert investigation.