Author
Peter Simkins
Principal Solutions Architect at Elastic | Observability, OpenTelemetry, and ML-driven anomaly detection
Peter is a Principal Solutions Architect at Elastic focused on enterprise observability, security, and AI search. Making sense of signals, from observability pipelines to the pulse of the plot, is the throughline of his work.
He is a results-driven technologist who specializes in making complex systems observable, efficient, and cost-effective. Whether scaling Elastic, taming OpenTelemetry, or fine-tuning anomaly detection with ML, he turns noisy telemetry into meaningful results.
Lately he has been solving gnarly ingestion issues, optimizing log pipelines, and leading architecture decisions that reduce overhead while increasing visibility. He works across Serverless, Elastic Cloud Hosted, observability, security, and data platforms, helping customers design and prove solutions that scale.
His background spans Elastic, Splunk, Chronosphere, and New Relic, with deep experience in observability architecture, Kubernetes-native monitoring, pipeline tuning, and evaluations across Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, and Elastic.
When he is not troubleshooting data flow or fine-tuning dashboards, he moonlights as a fiction writer. He is based in Poulsbo, Washington.
Articles
Migrate Datadog Kubernetes dashboards to Elastic Observability in under an hour
See how the migration CLI translates a real Datadog Kubernetes dashboard into validated Kibana panels and uploads it to your cluster in under an hour, no manual widget rebuilds required.
Migrate your Grafana Kubernetes dashboard to Elastic Observability: same PromQL, 30x faster queries
Take a real Grafana Kubernetes dashboard covering pod CPU, memory, node pressure, and restart counts, then migrate it into Elastic Observability with native PromQL in under an hour.