Blogs
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Pivoting Elastic's Data Ingestion to OpenTelemetry
Elastic has fully embraced OpenTelemetry as the backbone of its data ingestion strategy, aligning with the open-source community and contributing to make it the best data collection platform for a broad user base. This move benefits users by providing enhanced flexibility, efficiency, and control over telemetry data.
Connecting the Dots: ES|QL Joins for Richer Observability Insights
Now in tech preview, ES|QL LOOKUP JOIN lets you enrich logs, metrics, and traces at query time no need to denormalize at ingest. Add deployment, infra, or business context dynamically, reduce storage, and accelerate root cause analysis in Elastic Obervability.
Optimizing Spend and Content Moderation on Azure OpenAI with Elastic
We have added further capabilities to the Azure OpenAI GA package, which now offer content filter monitoring and enhancements to the billing insights!
Transforming Industries and the Critical Role of LLM Observability: How to use Elastic's LLM integrations in real-world scenarios
This blog explores four industry specific use cases that use Large Language Models (LLMs) and highlights how Elastic's LLM observability integrations provide insights into the cost, performance, reliability and the prompts and response exchange with the LLM.
Observability for Amazon MQ with Elastic: Demystifying Messaging Flows with Real-Time Insights
RabbitMQ, managed by Amazon MQ, enables asynchronous communication in distributed architectures but introduces operational risks such as retries, processing delays, and queue backlogs. Elastic’s Amazon MQ integration for RabbitMQ delivers deep observability into broker health, queue performance, message flow, and resource usage through Amazon CloudWatch metrics and logs. This blog outlines key operational risks associated with RabbitMQ and explains how Elastic observability helps maintain system reliability and optimize message delivery at scale.
LLM Observability for Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform - understand performance, cost and reliability
Enhance LLM observability with Elastic's GCP Vertex AI Integration — gain actionable insights into model performance, resource efficiency, and operational reliability.
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.
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.
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.
Process data from Elastic integrations with the integration filter plugin in Logstash
Offload data processing operations outside of your Elastic deployment and onto Logstash by using the integration filter plugin.
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.
LLM observability: track usage and manage costs with Elastic's OpenAI integration
Elastic's new OpenAI integration for Observability provides comprehensive insights into OpenAI model usage. With our pre-built dashboards and metrics, you can effectively track and monitor OpenAI model usage including GPT-4o and DALL·E.