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Using Elastic Agent Builder & OpenTelemetry to Observe Devices

Learn how to use Elastic Agent Builder and OpenTelemetry to build IoT observability and gain insights into your appliance usage patterns and efficiency.

Poornima Ramakrishnan

Bridging the Gap: End-to-End Observability from Cloud Native to Mainframe

Achieving end-to-end observability in hybrid enterprise environments, where modern cloud-native applications interact with critical, yet often opaque, IBM mainframe systems is a challenge. By utilizing IBM Z Observability Connect, which enables OTel output, with Elastic Observability is a solution, transforming your mainframe black box into a fully observable component in your deployment

Sherry Ger

Elastic's metrics analytics gets 5x faster

Explore Elastic's metrics analytics enhancements, including faster ES|QL queries, TSDS updates and OpenTelemetry exponential histogram support.

Vinay Chandrasekhar

A train ride away from a million events per second with EDOT Cloud Forwarder

EDOT Cloud Forwarder for AWS from Elastic Observability is now Generally Available. Deploying EDOT Cloud Forwarder and reliably handling one million events per second with zero intervention, zero data loss, and zero idle cost.

Michalis Katsoulis

A Practical Guide to end-to-end distributed tracing for Nginx with OpenTelemetry in Elastic

Instrument Nginx with the OpenTelemetry tracing module and export spans to Elastic Observability's APM for full end-to-end distributed tracing.

Frederic Maussion

Accelerate Otel Adoption with Elastic Agent Hybrid Ingestion

Elastic Agent 9.2 brings hybrid ingestion to Elastic Observability, unifying native integrations and OpenTelemetry receivers to simplify large-scale OTel adoption without disruption.

Frederic Maussion

TLS Certificate Monitoring with the OpenTelemetry Collector

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Mirko Bez

Streams Processing: Stop Fighting with Grok. Parse Your Logs in Streams.

Learn how Streams Processing works under the hood and how to use it to build, test, and deploy parsing logic on live data quickly.

Luca Wintergerst

Find answers quickly, correlate OpenTelemetry traces with existing ECS logs in Elastic Observability

In this blog we will discuss how EDOT enables you to collect existing ECS logs while ensuring a seamless and transparent move to OTel semantic conventions. The key benefit is that applications can continue sending logs as they do today, which minimizes the effort and impact on application developers.

Mirko Bez

Troubleshooting your Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Elastic Observability

Discover how to achieve end-to-end observability for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: from tracking service health and token costs to debugging complex reasoning loops with distributed tracing.

Daniela Tzvetkova

AIOps with Elastic Observability: Modern AIOps & Log Intelligence

Exploring modern AIOps capabilities, including anomaly detection, log intelligence, and log analysis & categorization with Elastic Observability.

Sophia Solomon

Elastic Observability: Streams Data Quality and Failure Store Insights

Discover how the Streams a new AI driven Elastic Observability feature help manage data quality with a failure store to help you monitor, troubleshoot, and retain high-quality data.

Elena Stoeva