Observability Articles
Migrate Datadog Kubernetes dashboards to Elastic Observability in under an hour
See how the migration CLI translates a real Datadog Kubernetes dashboard into validated Kibana panels and uploads it to your cluster in under an hour, no manual widget rebuilds required.
Migrate your Grafana Kubernetes dashboard to Elastic Observability: same PromQL, 30x faster queries
Take a real Grafana Kubernetes dashboard covering pod CPU, memory, node pressure, and restart counts, then migrate it into Elastic Observability with native PromQL in under an hour.
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.
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.
Common ES|QL queries for Kubernetes monitoring
Copy-paste ES|QL queries for Elasticsearch that turn memory pressure and error spikes into a five-minute diagnosis.
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.
TLS certificate monitoring with Elastic Workflows, Synthetics, and Osquery: Eliminate manual renewals
Automate TLS certificate monitoring with Elastic Workflows, Synthetics, and Osquery. Detect expiring certificates, rotate, and verify without human intervention.
Migrating Datadog and Grafana dashboards and alerts to Kibana with the Observability Migration Platform
Learn how to migrate supported Datadog and Grafana dashboards and alerts to Kibana with the Observability Migration Platform.
Elastic Ramen: A CLI harness for SRE investigation and remediation
Exploring Elastic Ramen, a CLI harness that brings Agent Builder conversations, skills, and tools into the terminal so engineers can move from investigation to remediation in a single thread.
OpenTelemetry for PHP: EDOT PHP joins the OpenTelemetry project
Explore Elastic’s donation of its EDOT PHP to the OpenTelemetry community and discover how it makes OpenTelemetry for PHP simpler and more accessible.
Getting more from your logs with OpenTelemetry
Learn how to evolve beyond basic log ingest by leveraging OpenTelemetry for ingestion, structured logging, geographic enrichment, and ES|QL analytics. Transform raw log data into actionable intelligence with practical examples and proactive observability strategies.
From Uptime to Synthetics in Elastic: Your migration Playbook
Effortlessly migrate your existing Uptime TCP, ICMP, and HTTP monitors to Elastic Synthetics with this comprehensive guide, leveraging Private Locations and Synthetics Projects for efficient, future-proof monitoring.