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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.

Tamara Dancheva

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

Bahubali Shetti

Monitor dbt pipelines with Elastic Observability

Learn how to set up a dbt monitoring system with Elastic that proactively alerts on data processing cost spikes, anomalies in rows per table, and data quality test failures

Almudena Sanz Olivé

Infrastructure monitoring with OpenTelemetry in Elastic Observability

Integrating OpenTelemetry with Elastic Observability for Application and Infrastructure Monitoring Solutions.

Ishleen Kaur

Using a custom agent with the OpenTelemetry Operator for Kubernetes

Jack Shirazi

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

Jack Shirazi

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.

NGNIX log analytics with GenAI in Elastic

Elastic has a set of embedded capabilities such as a GenAI RAG-based AI Assistant and a machine learning platform as part of the product baseline. These make analyzing the vast number of logs you get from NGINX easier.

Bahubali Shetti

Automatic cloud resource attributes with OpenTelemetry Java

Capturing cloud resource attributes allow to describe application cloud deployment details. In this article we describe three distinct ways to enable them for Java applications using OpenTelemetry

Sylvain Juge

LLM Observability: Azure OpenAI

We are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure OpenAI Integration that provides comprehensive Observability into the performance and usage of the Azure OpenAI Service!

Vinay Chandrasekhar

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.

Jonas Kunz

Elastic's collaboration with OpenTelemetry on improving the filelog receiver

Elastic is committed to help OpenTelemetry advance it's logging capabilities. Learn about our collaboration with the OpenTelemetry community on improving the capabilities and quality aspects of the OpenTelemetry Collector's filelog receiver.

Christos Markou