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Achieving seamless API management: Introducing AWS API Gateway integration with Elastic

With Elastic's AWS API Gateway integration, application owners and developers unlock the capability to proactively identify and resolve problems, fine-tune resource utilization, and provide extraordinary digital experiences to their users.

Udayasimha Theepireddy

Native OpenTelemetry support in Elastic Observability

Elastic offers native support for OpenTelemetry by allowing for direct ingest of OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs without conversion, and applying any Elastic feature against OTel data without degradation in capabilities.

Bahubali Shetti

Best practices for instrumenting OpenTelemetry

Instrumenting OpenTelemetry is complex. Even using auto-instrumentation requires understanding details about your application and OpenTelemetry configuration options. We’ll cover the best practices for instrumenting applications for OpenTelemetry.

Bahubali Shetti

Manual instrumentation of Go applications with OpenTelemetry

In this blog post, we will show you how to manually instrument Go applications using OpenTelemetry. We will explore how to use the proper OpenTelemetry Go packages and, in particular, work on instrumenting tracing in a Go application.

Luca Wintergerst

Getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation with a sample application

In this article, we’ll introduce you to a simple sample application: a UI for movie search, instrumented in different ways using Python, Go, Java, Node, and .NET. Additionally, we will show how to view your OpenTelemetry data in Elastic APM.

Luca Wintergerst

Elastic SQL inputs: A generic solution for database metrics observability

This blog dives into the functionality of generic SQL and provides various use cases for advanced users to ingest custom metrics to Elastic for database observability. We also introduce the fetch from all database new capability released in 8.10.

Lalit Satapathy

Auto-instrumentation of .NET applications with OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry provides an observability framework for cloud-native software, allowing us to trace, monitor, and debug applications seamlessly. In this post, we'll explore how to automatically instrument a .NET application using OpenTelemetry.

David Hope

Manual instrumentation of .NET applications with OpenTelemetry

In this blog, we will look at how to manually instrument your .NET applications using OpenTelemetry, which provides a set of APIs, libraries, and agents to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them in Elastic.

David Hope

Manual instrumentation of Java applications with OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry provides an observability framework for cloud-native software, allowing us to trace, monitor, and debug applications seamlessly. In this post, we'll explore how to manually instrument a Java application using OpenTelemetry.

David Hope

Automatic instrumentation with OpenTelemetry for Python applications

Learn how to auto-instrument Python applications using OpenTelemetry. With standard commands in a Docker file, applications can be instrumented quickly without writing code in multiple places, enabling rapid change, scale, and easier management.

Bahubali Shetti

Auto-instrumentation of Java applications with OpenTelemetry

Instrumenting Java applications with OpenTelemetry provides insights into application performance, dependencies, and errors. We'll show you how to automatically instrument a Java application using Docker, with no changes to your application code.

David Hope

Manual instrumentation with OpenTelemetry for Python applications

In this blog post, we will show you how to manually instrument Python applications using OpenTelemetry. We will explore how to use the proper OpenTelemetry Python libraries and in particular work on instrumenting tracing in a Python application.

Bahubali Shetti