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Introducing Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET
Observability Labs

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.

Steve Gordon
Beyond the trace: Pinpointing performance culprits with continuous profiling and distributed tracing correlation
Observability Labs

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

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
Analyzing OpenTelemetry apps with Elastic AI Assistant and APM
Observability Labs

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.

Bahubali Shetti
Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
Observability Labs

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.

David Hope
Build better Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from logs and metrics
Observability Labs

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.

Bahubali Shetti
Elastic APM for iOS and Android Native apps
Observability Labs

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.

Akhilesh Pokhariyal
Universal Profiling: Detecting CO2 and energy efficiency
Observability Labs

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
Elastic Observability monitors metrics for Microsoft Azure in just minutes
Observability Labs

Elastic Observability monitors metrics for Microsoft Azure in just minutes

Follow this step-by-step process to enable Elastic Observability for Microsoft Azure metrics.

Jonathan Simon
How to easily add application monitoring in Kubernetes pods
Observability Labs

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.

Jack Shirazi
Collecting OpenShift container logs using Red Hat’s OpenShift Logging Operator
Observability Labs

Collecting OpenShift container logs using Red Hat’s OpenShift Logging Operator

Learn how to optimize OpenShift logs collected with Red Hat OpenShift Logging Operator, as well as format and route them efficiently in Elasticsearch.

Mirko Bez
Elastic Observability monitors metrics for Google Cloud in just minutes
Observability Labs

Elastic Observability monitors metrics for Google Cloud in just minutes

Follow this step-by-step process to enable Elastic Observability for Google Cloud Platform metrics.

Jonathan Simon