Category: OpenTelemetry
Articles tagged OpenTelemetry
Now GA: Managed OTLP Endpoint on Elastic Cloud Hosted
The Elastic Managed OTLP Endpoint is now generally available on Elastic Cloud Hosted, bringing managed Kafka-backed resilience and native OTLP ingestion to any OpenTelemetry shipper.
Turn Dashboards Into an Investigation Tool with ES|QL Variable Controls
Learn how to use ES|QL variables in Kibana to turn a dashboard into an investigation tool, applying value and structure controls to uncover problems.
How we fixed head-based sampling in OpenTelemetry
Head-based sampling can break throughput charts without sampling metadata. Learn how OpenTelemetry tracestate probability fields fixed this in Java, JS, and Python.
Developer's Guide to Easy Ops: Demystifying OpenTelemetry's Magic
A Go-based Developer's 101 Guide to Easy Ops with OpenTelemetry and Elastic Observability.
Agent Skills for Elastic Observability
Learn how Agent Skills for Elastic Observability help SREs and developers run observability workflows through natural language to instrument apps with OpenTelemetry, search logs, manage SLOs, understand service health, and help with LLM observability.
Why Elastic donated its OpenTelemetry PHP distribution
Learn what the OpenTelemetry PHP distro donation changes for package-managed PHP environments, how it compares to existing options, and what contributors can do next.
Collecting JMX metrics with OpenTelemetry
Learn how to collect Tomcat JMX metrics with OpenTelemetry using the Java agent or jmx-scraper, then extend coverage with custom YAML rules and validate output.
Network monitoring with Elastic: Unifying network observability
Learn how to unify network monitoring using Elastic observability and AI. We'll showcase how to correlate network data, identify root causes and fix issues.
Agentic CI/CD: Kubernetes Deployment Gates with Elastic MCP Server
Deploy agentic CI/CD gates with Elastic MCP Server. Integrate AI agents into GitHub Actions to monitor K8s health and improve deployment reliability via Observability (O11y)
Windows Event Log Monitoring with OpenTelemetry & Elastic Streams
Learn how to enhance Windows Event Log monitoring with OpenTelemetry for standardized ingestion and Elastic Streams for smart partitioning and analysis.
Scale testing OpenTelemetry log ingestion on GCP with EDOT Cloud Forwarder
Learn how we load tested the EDOT Cloud Forwarder for GCP on Google Cloud Run and identified practical capacity limits per instance. We show how runtime tuning improves stability and translate the results into concrete configuration and scaling guidance.
