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The service with the most errors was healthy: root cause analysis from logs with ES|QL
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The service with the most errors was healthy: root cause analysis from logs with ES|QL

Metrics ranked three services identically at 19.1%. Four ES|QL queries over the same 4,688 OpenTelemetry log records traced 955 of 956 failure chains back to one of them, and needed no service dependency model to do it.

Jeffrey Rengifo
Kubernetes attributes processor v1: What it means for EDOT Collector
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Kubernetes attributes processor v1: What it means for EDOT Collector

Default EDOT Collector setups are fine. Anything custom that queries labels, annotations or container.image.tag quietly stops returning data after EDOT 9.6.

Christos Markou
Temporal Cloud observability in Elastic: 50+ metrics, zero collectors
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Temporal Cloud observability in Elastic: 50+ metrics, zero collectors

Elastic scrapes metrics.temporal.io, so the workflow that has been stuck in Running for an hour turns out to be a task queue nobody is polling, and you find that out before you open a single worker log.

Ishleen Kaur
Telemetry Policy: change OpenTelemetry sampling and log levels at runtime, no restart
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Telemetry Policy: change OpenTelemetry sampling and log levels at runtime, no restart

Telemetry Policy says what you want to happen and leaves each component to work out how. Change an OpenTelemetry Java agent's trace sampling to 1% and the JVM keeps serving traffic.

Jack Shirazi
Monitor Supabase in Elastic: dashboards, alert templates, SLO templates, and zero agents
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Monitor Supabase in Elastic: dashboards, alert templates, SLO templates, and zero agents

When your Supabase API goes slow, it could be the node, Postgres, the pooler or PostgREST. Elastic tells you which one and shows you the logs from whichever it was.

Ishleen Kaur
Native OTLP metrics ingestion on Elastic Cloud Hosted
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Native OTLP metrics ingestion on Elastic Cloud Hosted

Send an exponential OpenTelemetry histogram and Elasticsearch keeps the scale and buckets you sent. All four type and temporality combinations work now, and your SDK and Collector config stay exactly as they are.

Maurizio Branca
AI root cause analysis in Elastic Agent Builder that cites its evidence
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AI root cause analysis in Elastic Agent Builder that cites its evidence

The new release failed at 27.2%, the old one at 28.2%, so the deploy was never the cause; the agent worked that out in 72 seconds and handed back a trace ID for the failure that was.

Jeffrey Rengifo
Drain Vercel into Elastic: serverless observability with nothing to install
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Drain Vercel into Elastic: serverless observability with nothing to install

A drain and an API key put Vercel logs, traces, and Speed Insights into Elastic Cloud, where you can follow a slow request from the edge to the Lambda function behind it.

Ishleen Kaur
LLM tracing in Elastic APM: prompts, responses, and token counts in the span view
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LLM tracing in Elastic APM: prompts, responses, and token counts in the span view

In a twenty-call agentic trace, you can see which span is using the most tokens and read the prompt that caused it. Both live in Elastic APM, so there is no second tool to run.

Jenny Pavlova
Your AI agent needs an alibi: Observability and audit trails for Agent Builder in Elastic
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Your AI agent needs an alibi: Observability and audit trails for Agent Builder in Elastic

Elastic 9.5 traces every Agent Builder run as OpenTelemetry spans in your own cluster, so tool calls and token counts are queryable with ES|QL. One workflow step adds the approval record, in a data stream the pipeline cannot rewrite.

Jeffrey Rengifo
AI agent observability for Microsoft Foundry: two env vars, no collector
Observability Labs

AI agent observability for Microsoft Foundry: two env vars, no collector

Set up LLM tracing once and every model call, tool execution and handoff from your Foundry agent arrives in Kibana as one queryable trace, with token counts on each span and code for Agent Framework, LangGraph and Node.js.

Greg Crist
OpenTelemetry Java extensions: customize traces without forking the agent
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OpenTelemetry Java extensions: customize traces without forking the agent

One JAR, loaded at startup by the OpenTelemetry Java agent, lets you filter health checks, rename spans, add resource attributes, and control sampling with no application code changes.

Sylvain Juge

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