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Bridging the Gap: End-to-End Observability from Cloud Native to Mainframe
Observability Labs

Bridging the Gap: End-to-End Observability from Cloud Native to Mainframe

Achieving end-to-end observability in hybrid enterprise environments, where modern cloud-native applications interact with critical, yet often opaque, IBM mainframe systems is a challenge. By utilizing IBM Z Observability Connect, which enables OTel output, with Elastic Observability is a solution, transforming your mainframe black box into a fully observable component in your deployment

Sherry Ger
Elastic's metrics analytics gets 5x faster
Observability Labs

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.

Vinay Chandrasekhar
A train ride away from a million events per second with EDOT Cloud Forwarder
Observability Labs

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.

Michalis Katsoulis
A Practical Guide to end-to-end distributed tracing for Nginx with OpenTelemetry in Elastic
Observability Labs

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.

Frederic Maussion
Accelerate Otel Adoption with Elastic Agent Hybrid Ingestion
Observability Labs

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.

Frederic Maussion
TLS Certificate Monitoring with the OpenTelemetry Collector
Observability Labs

TLS Certificate Monitoring with the OpenTelemetry Collector

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Mirko Bez
Streams Processing: Stop Fighting with Grok. Parse Your Logs in Streams.
Observability Labs

Streams Processing: Stop Fighting with Grok. Parse Your Logs in Streams.

Learn how Streams Processing works under the hood and how to use it to build, test, and deploy parsing logic on live data quickly.

Luca Wintergerst
Find answers quickly, correlate OpenTelemetry traces with existing ECS logs in Elastic Observability
Observability Labs

Find answers quickly, correlate OpenTelemetry traces with existing ECS logs in Elastic Observability

In this blog we will discuss how EDOT enables you to collect existing ECS logs while ensuring a seamless and transparent move to OTel semantic conventions. The key benefit is that applications can continue sending logs as they do today, which minimizes the effort and impact on application developers.

Mirko Bez
Troubleshooting your Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Elastic Observability
Observability Labs

Troubleshooting your Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Elastic Observability

Discover how to achieve end-to-end observability for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: from tracking service health and token costs to debugging complex reasoning loops with distributed tracing.

Daniela Tzvetkova
AIOps with Elastic Observability: Modern AIOps & Log Intelligence
Observability Labs

AIOps with Elastic Observability: Modern AIOps & Log Intelligence

Exploring modern AIOps capabilities, including anomaly detection, log intelligence, and log analysis & categorization with Elastic Observability.

Sophia Solomon
Elastic Observability: Streams Data Quality and Failure Store Insights
Observability Labs

Elastic Observability: Streams Data Quality and Failure Store Insights

Discover how the Streams a new AI driven Elastic Observability feature help manage data quality with a failure store to help you monitor, troubleshoot, and retain high-quality data.

Elena Stoeva
EDOT SDK central configuration using OpAmp in Elastic Observability
Observability Labs

EDOT SDK central configuration using OpAmp in Elastic Observability

Learn how to configure the Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) SDKs centrally via the EDOT Collector using OpAmp in Elastic Observability at scale.

Christoph Heger