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Getting started with the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and Microsoft Azure OpenAI
Follow this step-by-step process to get started with the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and Microsoft Azure OpenAI.

Introducing Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET
Today, we are excited to announce the alpha release of our new Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET. In this post, we cover a few likely questions you may have about this new distribution and explain how to get started.

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.

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.

Analyzing OpenTelemetry apps with Elastic AI Assistant and APM
Elastic Observability provides native OpenTelemetry support, but analyzing applications logs, metrics, and traces can be daunting. Elastic Observability not only provides AIOps features but also an AI Assistant (co-pilot) to help get to MTTR faster.
Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
Learn how to gather application trace data and store it alongside the logs and metrics from your applications and infrastructure with Elastic Observability and Elastic APM.

Build better Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from logs and metrics
To help manage operations and business metrics, Elastic Observability's SLO (Service Level Objectives) feature was introduced in 8.12. This blog reviews this feature and how you can use it with Elastic's AI Assistant to meet SLOs.

Elastic APM for iOS and Android Native apps
This blog provides an overview of the key capabilities included in the Elastic APM solution for iOS and Android native apps, as well as a walkthrough of the configuration details and troubleshooting workflow for a few error scenarios.

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.
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Elastic Observability monitors metrics for Microsoft Azure in just minutes
Follow this step-by-step process to enable Elastic Observability for Microsoft Azure metrics.

How to easily add application monitoring in Kubernetes pods
This blog walks through installing the Elastic APM K8s Attacher and shows how to configure your system for both common and non-standard deployments of Elastic APM agents.
