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Elastic Universal Profiling: Delivering performance improvements and reduced costs
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Elastic Universal Profiling: Delivering performance improvements and reduced costs

In this blog, we’ll cover how a discovery by one of our engineers led to cost savings of thousands of dollars in our QA environment and magnitudes more once we deployed this change to production.

Luca Wintergerst

Tim Rühsen

Revealing unknowns in your tracing data with inferred spans in OpenTelemetry
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Revealing unknowns in your tracing data with inferred spans in OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing is essential in understanding complex systems, but it can miss latency issue details. By combining profiling techniques with distributed tracing, Elastic provides the inferred spans feature as an extension for the OTel Java SDK.

Jonas Kunz

Alexander Wert

Migrating from Elastic’s Go APM agent to OpenTelemetry Go SDK
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Migrating from Elastic’s Go APM agent to OpenTelemetry Go SDK

As OpenTelemetry is fast becoming an industry standard, Elastic is fast adopting it as well. In this post, we show you a safe and easy way to migrate your Go application from our APM agent to OpenTelemetry.

Damien Mathieu

Introducing Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET
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Introducing Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET

Today, we are excited to announce the alpha release of our new Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET. In this post, we cover a few likely questions you may have about this new distribution and explain how to get started.

Steve Gordon

Martijn Laarman

Beyond the trace: Pinpointing performance culprits with continuous profiling and distributed tracing correlation
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Beyond the trace: Pinpointing performance culprits with continuous profiling and distributed tracing correlation

Frustrated by slow traces but unsure where the code bottleneck lies? Elastic Universal Profiling correlates profiling stacktraces with OpenTelemetry (OTel) traces, helping you identify and pinpoint the exact lines of code causing performance issues.

Joel Höner

Israel Ogbole

Jonas Kunz

Analyzing OpenTelemetry apps with Elastic AI Assistant and APM
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Analyzing OpenTelemetry apps with Elastic AI Assistant and APM

Elastic Observability provides native OpenTelemetry support, but analyzing applications logs, metrics, and traces can be daunting. Elastic Observability not only provides AIOps features but also an AI Assistant (co-pilot) to help get to MTTR faster.

Bahubali Shetti

Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
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Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment

Learn how to gather application trace data and store it alongside the logs and metrics from your applications and infrastructure with Elastic Observability and Elastic APM.

David Hope

Elastic APM for iOS and Android Native apps
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Elastic APM for iOS and Android Native apps

This blog provides an overview of the key capabilities included in the Elastic APM solution for iOS and Android native apps, as well as a walkthrough of the configuration details and troubleshooting workflow for a few error scenarios.

Akhilesh Pokhariyal

Cesar Munoz

Bryce Buchanan

How to easily add application monitoring in Kubernetes pods
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How to easily add application monitoring in Kubernetes pods

This blog walks through installing the Elastic APM K8s Attacher and shows how to configure your system for both common and non-standard deployments of Elastic APM agents.

Jack Shirazi

Sylvain Juge

Alexander Wert

Continuous profiling: The key to more efficient and cost-effective applications
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Continuous profiling: The key to more efficient and cost-effective applications

In this post, we discuss why computational efficiency is important and how Elastic Universal Profiling enables your business to use continuous profiling in production environments to make the software that runs your business as efficient as possible.

John Knoepfle

How to deploy a Hello World web app with Elastic Observability on Azure Container Apps
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How to deploy a Hello World web app with Elastic Observability on Azure Container Apps

Follow the step-by-step process of instrumenting Elastic Observability for a Hello World web app running on Azure Container Apps.

Jonathan Simon

How to deploy a Hello World web app with Elastic Observability on AWS App Runner
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How to deploy a Hello World web app with Elastic Observability on AWS App Runner

Follow the step-by-step process of instrumenting Elastic Observability for a Hello World web app running on AWS App Runner.

Jonathan Simon