Elastic Agent Articles
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.
From five dashboards to one prompt: how we built an APM health monitor with Elastic Agent Builder
Five ES|QL tools score latency, errors, throughput and dependencies to find the root cause, so you don't dashboard-hop during an APM incident.
From alert to root cause in seconds: AI-powered observability with Elastic Agent Builder and Workflows
Elastic Agent Builder and Workflows replace dashboard hunting: one question surfaces the root cause, correlates metrics across weeks, and calculates business impact; then the workflow files the ticket.
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.
Kubernetes observability: MCP specialist agents for safer EKS triage
Scope a specialist EKS MCP agent for cluster checks while the Elastic AI Agent triages; fix a service misconfiguration using the specialist agent in a few prompts.
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.
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)
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.
Accelerate Otel Adoption with Elastic Agent Hybrid Ingestion
Elastic Agent 9.2 brings hybrid ingestion to Elastic Observability, unifying native integrations and OpenTelemetry receivers to simplify large-scale OTel adoption without disruption.
Monitoring Proxmox VE deployments with Elastic Observability
Monitoring Proxmox VE deployments, VMs, and Linux Containers with Elastic Observability.
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.
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.