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Turn Dashboards Into an Investigation Tool with ES|QL Variable Controls
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Turn Dashboards Into an Investigation Tool with ES|QL Variable Controls

Learn how to use ES|QL variables in Kibana to turn a dashboard into an investigation tool, applying value and structure controls to uncover problems.

Miguel Sánchez Gómez
How we fixed head-based sampling in OpenTelemetry
Observability Labs

How we fixed head-based sampling in OpenTelemetry

Head-based sampling can break throughput charts without sampling metadata. Learn how OpenTelemetry tracestate probability fields fixed this in Java, JS, and Python.

Alexander Wert
Developer's Guide to Easy Ops: Demystifying OpenTelemetry's Magic
Observability Labs

Developer's Guide to Easy Ops: Demystifying OpenTelemetry's Magic

A Go-based Developer's 101 Guide to Easy Ops with OpenTelemetry and Elastic Observability.

Sophia Solomon
Agent Skills for Elastic Observability
Observability Labs

Agent Skills for Elastic Observability

Learn how Agent Skills for Elastic Observability help SREs and developers run observability workflows through natural language to instrument apps with OpenTelemetry, search logs, manage SLOs, understand service health, and help with LLM observability.

Bahubali Shetti
Why Elastic donated its OpenTelemetry PHP distribution
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Why Elastic donated its OpenTelemetry PHP distribution

Learn what the OpenTelemetry PHP distro donation changes for package-managed PHP environments, how it compares to existing options, and what contributors can do next.

Pawel Filipczak
Collecting JMX metrics with OpenTelemetry
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Collecting JMX metrics with OpenTelemetry

Learn how to collect Tomcat JMX metrics with OpenTelemetry using the Java agent or jmx-scraper, then extend coverage with custom YAML rules and validate output.

Sylvain Juge
Network monitoring with Elastic: Unifying network observability
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Network monitoring with Elastic: Unifying network observability

Learn how to unify network monitoring using Elastic observability and AI. We'll showcase how to correlate network data, identify root causes and fix issues.

Patrick Boulanger
Agentic CI/CD: Kubernetes Deployment Gates with Elastic MCP Server
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Agentic CI/CD: Kubernetes Deployment Gates with Elastic MCP Server

Deploy agentic CI/CD gates with Elastic MCP Server. Integrate AI agents into GitHub Actions to monitor K8s health and improve deployment reliability via Observability (O11y)

Bahubali Shetti
Windows Event Log Monitoring with OpenTelemetry & Elastic Streams
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Windows Event Log Monitoring with OpenTelemetry & Elastic Streams

Learn how to enhance Windows Event Log monitoring with OpenTelemetry for standardized ingestion and Elastic Streams for smart partitioning and analysis.

David Hope
Scale testing OpenTelemetry log ingestion on GCP with EDOT Cloud Forwarder
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Scale testing OpenTelemetry log ingestion on GCP with EDOT Cloud Forwarder

Learn how we load tested the EDOT Cloud Forwarder for GCP on Google Cloud Run and identified practical capacity limits per instance. We show how runtime tuning improves stability and translate the results into concrete configuration and scaling guidance.

Constanca Manteigas
Using Elastic Agent Builder & OpenTelemetry to Observe Devices
Observability Labs

Using Elastic Agent Builder & OpenTelemetry to Observe Devices

Learn how to use Elastic Agent Builder and OpenTelemetry to build IoT observability and gain insights into your appliance usage patterns and efficiency.

Poornima Ramakrishnan
Elastic's metrics analytics gets 5x faster
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Elastic's metrics analytics gets 5x faster

Explore Elastic's metrics analytics enhancements, including faster ES|QL queries, TSDS updates and OpenTelemetry exponential histogram support.

Vinay Chandrasekhar

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