OpenTelemetry Articles

Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) Now GA: Open-Source, Production-Ready OTel
OpenTelemetryAPMInstrumentation

Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) Now GA: Open-Source, Production-Ready OTel

Elastic is proud to introduce General Availability of Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT), which contains Elastic’s versions of the OpenTelemetry Collector and several language SDKs like Python, Java, .NET, and NodeJS. These help provide enhanced features and enterprise-grade support for EDOT.

Miguel Luna

Bahubali Shetti

End to end LLM observability with Elastic: seeing into the opaque world of generative AI applications
Azure OpenAIOpenAIOpenTelemetryGenAILLM Observability

End to end LLM observability with Elastic: seeing into the opaque world of generative AI applications

Elastic’s LLM Observability delivers end-to-end visibility into the performance, reliability, cost, and compliance of LLMs across Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, and OpenAI, - empowering SREs to optimize and troubleshoot AI-powered applications.

Daniela Tzvetkova

Bahubali Shetti

Dynamic workload discovery on Kubernetes now supported with EDOT Collector
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Dynamic workload discovery on Kubernetes now supported with EDOT Collector

Discover how Elastic's OpenTelemetry Collector leverages Kubernetes pod annotations providing dynamic workload discovery and improves automated metric and log collection for Kubernetes clusters.

Christos Markou

Alexander Wert

Introducing the OTTL Playground for OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry

Introducing the OTTL Playground for OpenTelemetry

Elastic is proud to introduce the OTTL Playground (https://ottl.run), a powerful and user-friendly tool designed to allow users to experiment with OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL) effortlessly. The playground provides a rich interface for users to create, modify, and test statements in real-time, making it easier to understand how different configurations impact the OpenTelemetry data transformation.

Edmo Vamerlatti Costa

2025 observability trends: Maturing beyond the hype
OpenTelemetryGenAILLM Observability

2025 observability trends: Maturing beyond the hype

Discover what 500+ decision-makers revealed about OpenTelemetry adoption, GenAI integration, and LLM monitoring—insights that separate innovators from followers in Elastic's 2025 observability survey.

David Hope

Monitor your C++ Applications with Elastic APM
OpenTelemetryAPMInstrumentationLog Analytics

Monitor your C++ Applications with Elastic APM

In this article we will be using the Opentelemetry CPP client to monitor C++ application within Elastic APM

Haidar Braimaanie

Tracing a RAG based Chatbot with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry and Langtrace
OpenTelemetryAPMPythonInstrumentationOpenAILLM ObservabilityKubernetes

Tracing a RAG based Chatbot with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry and Langtrace

How to observe a OpenAI RAG based application using Elastic. Instrument the app, collect logs, traces, metrics, and understand how well the LLM is performing with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes with Langtrace.

Bahubali Shetti

Tracing, logs, and metrics for a RAG based Chatbot with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetryAPMPythonInstrumentationOpenAILLM ObservabilityKubernetes

Tracing, logs, and metrics for a RAG based Chatbot with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry

How to observe a OpenAI RAG based application using Elastic. Instrument the app, collect logs, traces, metrics, and understand how well the LLM is performing with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes and Docker.

Bahubali Shetti

Instrumenting your OpenAI-powered Python, Node.js, and Java Applications with EDOT
Azure OpenAIOpenAIOpenTelemetryGenAIJavaPythonLLM Observability

Instrumenting your OpenAI-powered Python, Node.js, and Java Applications with EDOT

Elastic is proud to introduce OpenAI support in our Python, Node.js and Java EDOT SDKs. These add logs, metrics and tracing to applications that use OpenAI compatible services without any code change.

Adrian Cole

Assembling an OpenTelemetry NGINX Ingress Controller Integration
OpenTelemetry

Assembling an OpenTelemetry NGINX Ingress Controller Integration

This blog post explores how to set up an OpenTelemetry integration for the NGINX Ingress Controller, detailing the configuration process, key transformations, and upcoming enhancements for modular configuration support.

Roger Coll

Native OTel-based K8s & App Observability in 3 Steps with Elastic
KubernetesOpenTelemetry

Native OTel-based K8s & App Observability in 3 Steps with Elastic

Elastic's Distributions of OpenTelemetry are now supported with the OTel Operator, providing auto instrumentation of applications with EDOT SDKs, and deployment and lifecycle management of the EDOT OTel Collector for Kubernetes Observability. Learn how to configure this in 3 easy steps

Bahubali Shetti

Unlock possibilities with native OpenTelemetry: prioritize reliability, not proprietary limitations
KubernetesOpenTelemetry

Unlock possibilities with native OpenTelemetry: prioritize reliability, not proprietary limitations

Elastic now supports Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) deployment and management on Kubernetes, using OTel Operator. SREs can now access out-of the-box configurations and dashboards designed to streamline collector deployment, application auto-instrumentation and lifecycle management with Elastic Observability.

Bahubali Shetti

Miguel Luna