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Build better Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from logs and metrics
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Build better Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from logs and metrics

To help manage operations and business metrics, Elastic Observability's SLO (Service Level Objectives) feature was introduced in 8.12. This blog reviews this feature and how you can use it with Elastic's AI Assistant to meet SLOs.

Bahubali Shetti

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

Collecting OpenShift container logs using Red Hat’s OpenShift Logging Operator
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Collecting OpenShift container logs using Red Hat’s OpenShift Logging Operator

Learn how to optimize OpenShift logs collected with Red Hat OpenShift Logging Operator, as well as format and route them efficiently in Elasticsearch.

Mirko Bez

David Ricordel

Philipp Kahr

Enhancing SRE troubleshooting with the AI Assistant for Observability and your organization's runbooks
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Enhancing SRE troubleshooting with the AI Assistant for Observability and your organization's runbooks

Empower your SRE team with this guide to enriching Elastic's AI Assistant Knowledge Base with your organization's internal observability information for enhanced alert remediation and incident management.

Almudena Sanz Olivé

Katrin Freihofner

Tom Grabowski

Optimizing Observability with ES|QL: Streamlining SRE operations and issue resolution for Kubernetes and OTel
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Optimizing Observability with ES|QL: Streamlining SRE operations and issue resolution for Kubernetes and OTel

ES|QL enhances operational efficiency, data analysis, and issue resolution for SREs. This blog covers the advantages of ES|QL in Elastic Observability and how it can apply to managing issues instrumented with OpenTelemetry and running on Kubernetes.

Bahubali Shetti

Ingesting and analyzing Prometheus metrics with Elastic Observability
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Ingesting and analyzing Prometheus metrics with Elastic Observability

In this blog post, we will showcase the integration of Prometheus with Elastic, emphasizing how Elastic elevates metrics monitoring through extensive historical analytics, anomaly detection, and forecasting, all in a cost-effective manner.

Jenny Morris

Native OpenTelemetry support in Elastic Observability
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Native OpenTelemetry support in Elastic Observability

Elastic offers native support for OpenTelemetry by allowing for direct ingest of OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs without conversion, and applying any Elastic feature against OTel data without degradation in capabilities.

Bahubali Shetti

How to enable Kubernetes alerting with Elastic Observability
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How to enable Kubernetes alerting with Elastic Observability

In the Kubernetes world, different personas demand different kinds of insights. In this post, we’ll focus on alerting and provide an overview of how alerts in Elastic Observability can help users quickly identify Kubernetes problems.

Christos Markou

Gain insights into Kubernetes errors with Elastic Observability logs and OpenAI
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Gain insights into Kubernetes errors with Elastic Observability logs and OpenAI

This blog post provides an example of how one can analyze error messages in Elasticsearch with ChatGPT using the OpenAI API via Elasticsearch.

Bahubali Shetti

How to monitor Kafka and Confluent Cloud with Elastic Observability
KubernetesAPM

How to monitor Kafka and Confluent Cloud with Elastic Observability

This blog post will take you through best practices to observe Kafka-based solutions implemented on Confluent Cloud with Elastic Observability.

David Hope

Using Elastic to observe GKE Autopilot clusters
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Using Elastic to observe GKE Autopilot clusters

See how deploying the Elastic Agent onto a GKE Autopilot cluster makes observing the cluster’s behavior easy. Kibana integrations make visualizing the behavior a simple addition to your observability dashboards.

Eric Lowry

Independence with OpenTelemetry on Elastic
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Independence with OpenTelemetry on Elastic

OpenTelemetry has become a key component for observability given its open standards and developer-friendly tools. See how easily Elastic Observability integrates with OTel to provide a platform that minimizes vendor lock-in and maximizes flexibility.

Bahubali Shetti