OpenTelemetry Articles
Agent Skills for Elastic Observability
Learn how Agent Skills for Elastic Observability help SREs and developers run observability workflows through natural language to instrument apps with OpenTelemetry, search logs, manage SLOs, understand service health, and help with LLM observability.
Why Elastic donated its OpenTelemetry PHP distribution
Learn what the OpenTelemetry PHP distro donation changes for package-managed PHP environments, how it compares to existing options, and what contributors can do next.
Collecting JMX metrics with OpenTelemetry
Learn how to collect Tomcat JMX metrics with OpenTelemetry using the Java agent or jmx-scraper, then extend coverage with custom YAML rules and validate output.
Network monitoring with Elastic: Unifying network observability
Learn how to unify network monitoring using Elastic observability and AI. We'll showcase how to correlate network data, identify root causes and fix issues.
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)
Windows Event Log Monitoring with OpenTelemetry & Elastic Streams
Learn how to enhance Windows Event Log monitoring with OpenTelemetry for standardized ingestion and Elastic Streams for smart partitioning and analysis.
Scale testing OpenTelemetry log ingestion on GCP with EDOT Cloud Forwarder
Learn how we load tested the EDOT Cloud Forwarder for GCP on Google Cloud Run and identified practical capacity limits per instance. We show how runtime tuning improves stability and translate the results into concrete configuration and scaling guidance.
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.
Elastic's metrics analytics gets 5x faster
Explore Elastic's metrics analytics enhancements, including faster ES|QL queries, TSDS updates and OpenTelemetry exponential histogram support.
A train ride away from a million events per second with EDOT Cloud Forwarder
EDOT Cloud Forwarder for AWS from Elastic Observability is now Generally Available. Deploying EDOT Cloud Forwarder and reliably handling one million events per second with zero intervention, zero data loss, and zero idle cost.
A Practical Guide to end-to-end distributed tracing for Nginx with OpenTelemetry in Elastic
Instrument Nginx with the OpenTelemetry tracing module and export spans to Elastic Observability's APM for full end-to-end distributed tracing.
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.