Universal Profiling Articles

Combining Elastic Universal Profiling with Java APM Services and Traces
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Combining Elastic Universal Profiling with Java APM Services and Traces

Learn how to combine the power of Elastic universal profiling with APM data from Java services to easily pinpoint CPU bottlenecks. Compatible with both OpenTelemetry and the classic Elastic APM Agent.

Jonas Kunz

FAQ - Elastic contributes its Universal Profiling agent to OpenTelemetry
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FAQ - Elastic contributes its Universal Profiling agent to OpenTelemetry

Elastic is advancing the adoption of OpenTelemetry with the contribution of its universal profiling agent. Elastic is committed to ensuring a vendor-agnostic ingestion and collection of observability and security telemetry through OpenTelemetry.

Elastic Observability Team

Elastic contributes its Universal Profiling agent to OpenTelemetry
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Elastic contributes its Universal Profiling agent to OpenTelemetry

Elastic is advancing the adoption of OpenTelemetry with the contribution of its universal profiling agent. Elastic is committed to ensuring a vendor-agnostic ingestion and collection of observability and security telemetry through OpenTelemetry.

Christos Kalkanis

Alexander Wert

Abhishek Singh

Elastic Universal Profiling: Delivering performance improvements and reduced costs
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Elastic Universal Profiling: Delivering performance improvements and reduced costs

In this blog, we’ll cover how a discovery by one of our engineers led to cost savings of thousands of dollars in our QA environment and magnitudes more once we deployed this change to production.

Luca Wintergerst

Tim Rühsen

Elastic Universal Profiling agent, a continuous profiling solution, is now open source
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Elastic Universal Profiling agent, a continuous profiling solution, is now open source

At Elastic, open source isn't just philosophy, it's our DNA. Dive into the future with our open-sourced Universal Profiling agent, revolutionizing software efficiency and sustainability.

Israel Ogbole

Christos Kalkanis

Beyond the trace: Pinpointing performance culprits with continuous profiling and distributed tracing correlation
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Beyond the trace: Pinpointing performance culprits with continuous profiling and distributed tracing correlation

Frustrated by slow traces but unsure where the code bottleneck lies? Elastic Universal Profiling correlates profiling stacktraces with OpenTelemetry (OTel) traces, helping you identify and pinpoint the exact lines of code causing performance issues.

Joel Höner

Israel Ogbole

Jonas Kunz

OpenTelemetry and Elastic: Working together to establish continuous profiling for the community
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OpenTelemetry and Elastic: Working together to establish continuous profiling for the community

OpenTelemetry is embracing profiling. Elastic is donating its whole-system continuous profiling agent to OpenTelemetry to further this advancement, empowering OTel users to improve computational efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint.

Israel Ogbole

Alexander Wert

Tim Rühsen

Universal Profiling: Detecting CO2 and energy efficiency
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Universal Profiling: Detecting CO2 and energy efficiency

Universal Profiling introduces the possibility to capture environmental impact. In this post, we compare Python and Go implementations and showcase the substantial CO2 savings achieved through code optimization.

Philipp Kahr

Francesco Gualazzi

Continuous profiling: The key to more efficient and cost-effective applications
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Continuous profiling: The key to more efficient and cost-effective applications

In this post, we discuss why computational efficiency is important and how Elastic Universal Profiling enables your business to use continuous profiling in production environments to make the software that runs your business as efficient as possible.

John Knoepfle

Unlocking whole-system visibility with Elastic Universal Profiling™
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Unlocking whole-system visibility with Elastic Universal Profiling™

Visual profiling data can be overwhelming. This blog post aims to demystify continuous profiling and guide you through its unique visualizations. We will equip you with the knowledge to derive quick, actionable insights from Universal Profiling™.

Israel Ogbole

Francesco Gualazzi