Category: APM

Introducing Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry

Elastic is proud to introduce Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT), which contains Elastic’s versions of the OpenTelemetry Collector and several language SDKs like Python, Java, .NET, and NodeJS. These help provide enhanced features and enterprise-grade support for EDOT.

Introducing Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector

We are thrilled to announce the technical preview of the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector. This new offering underscores Elastic dedication to this important framework and highlights our ongoing contributions to make OpenTelemetry the best vendor agnostic data collection framework.

Monitor your Python data pipelines with OTEL

Learn how to configure OTEL for your data pipelines, detect any anomalies, analyze performance, and set up corresponding alerts with Elastic.

Tracing LangChain apps with Elastic, OpenLLMetry, and OpenTelemetry

LangChain applications are growing in use. The ability to build out RAG-based applications, simple AI Assistants, and more is becoming the norm. Observing these applications is even harder. Given the various options that are out there, this blog shows how to use OpenTelemetry instrumentation with OpenLLMetry and ingest it into Elastic Observability APM

Using a custom agent with the OpenTelemetry Operator for Kubernetes

Zero config OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation for Kubernetes Java applications

Walking through how to install and enable the OpenTelemetry Operator for Kubernetes to auto-instrument Java applications, with no configuration changes needed for deployments

Introducing Elastic Distribution for OpenTelemetry Python

Announcing the first alpha release of the Elastic Distribution for OpenTelemetry Python. See how easy it is to instrument your Python applications with OpenTelemetry in this blog post.

Combining Elastic Universal Profiling with Java APM Services and Traces

Learn how to combine the power of Elastic universal profiling with APM data from Java services to easily pinpoint CPU bottlenecks. Compatible with both OpenTelemetry and the classic Elastic APM Agent.

Elastic contributes its Universal Profiling agent to OpenTelemetry

Elastic is advancing the adoption of OpenTelemetry with the contribution of its universal profiling agent. Elastic is committed to ensuring a vendor-agnostic ingestion and collection of observability and security telemetry through OpenTelemetry.

FAQ - Elastic contributes its Universal Profiling agent to OpenTelemetry

Elastic is advancing the adoption of OpenTelemetry with the contribution of its universal profiling agent. Elastic is committed to ensuring a vendor-agnostic ingestion and collection of observability and security telemetry through OpenTelemetry.

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.

Elastic Universal Profiling: Delivering performance improvements and reduced costs

In this blog, we’ll cover how a discovery by one of our engineers led to cost savings of thousands of dollars in our QA environment and magnitudes more once we deployed this change to production.