Skip writing alert rules: 6 ready-made ES|QL templates ship inside the NGINX OTel integration
Elastic integrations come with alerting rule templates, each one an ES|QL query with a threshold already set. Create Elasticsearch alert rules in minutes, tune them to your traffic, and catch silent data streams early.
Elastic z/OS ingest: five architectures for mainframe data
This field guide walks through the ingest architectures I've seen work in production, the data quality checks that decide whether your dashboards actually work, and the ECS mapping that makes mainframe data usable to the platform.
Use Elasticsearch as a Drop-In Prometheus Backend for Grafana
Use Elasticsearch as a Prometheus backend for Grafana dashboards, autocomplete, Metrics Drilldown, and alerting without changing PromQL workflows.
3 signals, 2 env vars, 0 collectors: OpenTelemetry with Python and Elastic's Managed OTLP Endpoint
Instrument a Flask API with OpenTelemetry and ship traces, metrics, and logs to Elastic Cloud using just 2 environment variables, no collector needed.
How Elastic's ML and AI Assistant cut 802.1x triage from 20 minutes to seconds in the NOC
Find out how Network Operations Center (NOC) teams use Elasticsearch, ML, and the Elastic AI Assistant to cut MTTR, tame alert fatigue, and solve network issues fast.
Migrate Logstash Pipelines from Azure Event Hubs to OTel Collector Kafka Receiver
Step-by-step guide to migrating Logstash pipelines from the Azure Event Hubs plugin to the OpenTelemetry Collector Kafka receiver.
OpenTelemetry browser instrumentation using EDOT Browser & Kibana
A step-by-step guide on OpenTelemetry browser instrumentation. Learn how to add EDOT Browser to a web app, export browser telemetry via OTLP, and verify traces, spans, and service maps in Kibana.
Ship Prometheus Metrics to Elasticsearch with Remote Write
Elasticsearch natively supports Prometheus Remote Write. Add a single remote_write block to your Prometheus config and use Elasticsearch as Prometheus-compatible long-term storage.
Migrate Logstash Pipelines from Azure Event Hubs to Kafka Input Plugin
Step-by-step guide to migrating Logstash pipelines from the Azure Event Hubs plugin to the Kafka input plugin to eliminate offset storage costs and improve performance.
Composing OpenTelemetry Reference Architectures
A conceptual framework for reasoning about OpenTelemetry Collection architectures — edge, processing, and resilience layers that compose into the right pipeline for your environment.
AI agent observability and monitoring with OTel, OpenLit & Elastic
Learn how to monitor AI web agents to identify performance bottlenecks, token waste, and hallucinations using
Now GA: Managed OTLP Endpoint on Elastic Cloud Hosted
The Elastic Managed OTLP Endpoint is now generally available on Elastic Cloud Hosted, bringing managed Kafka-backed resilience and native OTLP ingestion to any OpenTelemetry shipper.