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How to remove PII from your Elastic data in 3 easy steps
Observability Labs

How to remove PII from your Elastic data in 3 easy steps

Personally Identifiable Information compliance is an ever increasing challenge for any organization. With Elastic's intuitive ML interface and parsing capabilities, sensitive data may be easily redacted from unstructured data with ease.

Peter Titov
Using the Elastic Agent to monitor Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate with Elastic Observability
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Using the Elastic Agent to monitor Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate with Elastic Observability

In this article, we’ll guide you through how to install the Elastic Agent with the AWS Fargate integration as a sidecar container to send host metrics and logs to Elastic Observability.

Alexis Roberson
Simplifying log data management: Harness the power of flexible routing with Elastic
Observability Labs

Simplifying log data management: Harness the power of flexible routing with Elastic

The reroute processor, available as of Elasticsearch 8.8, allows customizable rules for routing documents, such as logs, into data streams for better control of processing, retention, and permissions with examples that you can try on your own.

Felix Barnsteiner
How to enable Kubernetes alerting with Elastic Observability
Observability Labs

How to enable Kubernetes alerting with Elastic Observability

In the Kubernetes world, different personas demand different kinds of insights. In this post, we’ll focus on alerting and provide an overview of how alerts in Elastic Observability can help users quickly identify Kubernetes problems.

Christos Markou
Gaining new perspectives beyond logging: An introduction to application performance monitoring
Observability Labs

Gaining new perspectives beyond logging: An introduction to application performance monitoring

Change is on the horizon for the world of logging. In this post, we’ll outline a recommended journey for moving from just logging to a fully integrated solution with logs, traces, and APM.

David Hope
Unleash the power of Elastic and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to enhance observability and data analytics
Observability Labs

Unleash the power of Elastic and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to enhance observability and data analytics

AWS users can now leverage the new Amazon Kinesis Firehose Delivery Stream to directly ingest logs into Elastic Cloud in real time for centralized alerting, troubleshooting, and analytics across your cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

Gain insights into Kubernetes errors with Elastic Observability logs and OpenAI
Observability Labs

Gain insights into Kubernetes errors with Elastic Observability logs and OpenAI

This blog post provides an example of how one can analyze error messages in Elasticsearch with ChatGPT using the OpenAI API via Elasticsearch.

Bahubali Shetti
Trace your Azure Function application with Elastic Observability
Observability Labs

Trace your Azure Function application with Elastic Observability

Serverless applications deployed on Azure Functions are growing in usage. This blog shows how to deploy a serverless application on Azure functions with Elastic Agent and use Elastic's APM capability to manage and troubleshoot issues.

Trent Mick
How to use Elasticsearch and Time Series Data Streams for observability metrics
Observability Labs

How to use Elasticsearch and Time Series Data Streams for observability metrics

With Time Series Data Streams (TSDS), Elasticsearch introduces optimized storage for metrics time series. Check out how we use it for Elastic Observability.

Nicolas Ruflin
Root cause analysis with logs: Elastic Observability's AIOps Labs
Observability Labs

Root cause analysis with logs: Elastic Observability's AIOps Labs

Elastic Observability provides more than just log aggregation, metrics analysis, APM, and distributed tracing. Our machine learning-based AIOps capabilities help you analyze the root cause of issues allowing you to focus on the most important tasks.

Bahubali Shetti
Monitoring service performance: An overview of SLA calculation for Elastic Observability
Observability Labs

Monitoring service performance: An overview of SLA calculation for Elastic Observability

Elastic Stack provides many valuable insights for different users, such as reports on service performance and if the service level agreement (SLA) is met. In this post, we’ll provide an overview of calculating an SLA for Elastic Observability.

Philipp Kahr
Monitor OpenAI API and GPT models with OpenTelemetry and Elastic
Observability Labs

Monitor OpenAI API and GPT models with OpenTelemetry and Elastic

Get ready to be blown away by this game-changing approach to monitoring cutting-edge ChatGPT applications! As the ChatGPT phenomenon takes the world by storm, it's time to supercharge your monitoring game with OpenTelemetry and Elastic Observability.

David Hope