OpenTelemetry Articles
Introducing the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent
Elastic announces the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Java Agent, a fully OTel-compatible agent with a rich set of useful additional features.
Introducing Elastic's OpenTelemetry Distribution for Node.js
Announcing the first alpha release of the Elastic OpenTelemetry Distribution for Node.js. See how easy it is to instrument your Node.js applications with OpenTelemetry in this blog post.
Revealing unknowns in your tracing data with inferred spans in OpenTelemetry
Distributed tracing is essential in understanding complex systems, but it can miss latency issue details. By combining profiling techniques with distributed tracing, Elastic provides the inferred spans feature as an extension for the OTel Java SDK.
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Migrating from Elastic’s Go APM agent to OpenTelemetry Go SDK
As OpenTelemetry is fast becoming an industry standard, Elastic is fast adopting it as well. In this post, we show you a safe and easy way to migrate your Go application from our APM agent to OpenTelemetry.
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.
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.
Enhancing SRE troubleshooting with the AI Assistant for Observability and your organization's runbooks
Empower your SRE team with this guide to enriching Elastic's AI Assistant Knowledge Base with your organization's internal observability information for enhanced alert remediation and incident management.
Optimizing Observability with ES|QL: Streamlining SRE operations and issue resolution for Kubernetes and OTel
ES|QL enhances operational efficiency, data analysis, and issue resolution for SREs. This blog covers the advantages of ES|QL in Elastic Observability and how it can apply to managing issues instrumented with OpenTelemetry and running on Kubernetes.
Elastic's contribution: Invokedynamic in the OpenTelemetry Java agent
The instrumentation approach in OpenTelemetry's Java Agent comes with some limitations with respect to maintenance and testability. Elastic contributes an invokedynamic-based instrumentation approach that helps overcoming these limitations.