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Elastic Observability monitors metrics for Microsoft Azure in just minutes

Follow this step-by-step process to enable Elastic Observability for Microsoft Azure metrics.

Jonathan Simon

How to easily add application monitoring in Kubernetes pods

This blog walks through installing the Elastic APM K8s Attacher and shows how to configure your system for both common and non-standard deployments of Elastic APM agents.

Jack Shirazi

Collecting OpenShift container logs using Red Hat’s OpenShift Logging Operator

Learn how to optimize OpenShift logs collected with Red Hat OpenShift Logging Operator, as well as format and route them efficiently in Elasticsearch.

Mirko Bez

Elastic Observability monitors metrics for Google Cloud in just minutes

Follow this step-by-step process to enable Elastic Observability for Google Cloud Platform metrics.

Jonathan Simon

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.

Almudena Sanz Olivé

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.

Bahubali Shetti

Continuous profiling: The key to more efficient and cost-effective applications

In this post, we discuss why computational efficiency is important and how Elastic Universal Profiling enables your business to use continuous profiling in production environments to make the software that runs your business as efficient as possible.

John Knoepfle

How to deploy a Hello World web app with Elastic Observability on Azure Container Apps

Follow the step-by-step process of instrumenting Elastic Observability for a Hello World web app running on Azure Container Apps.

Jonathan Simon

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.

Alexander Wert

Migrating 1 billion log lines from OpenSearch to Elasticsearch

Learn how to migrate 1 billion log lines from OpenSearch to Elasticsearch for improved performance and reduced disk usage. Discover the migration strategies, data transfer methods, and optimization techniques used in this guide.

Ugo Sangiorgi

Ingesting and analyzing Prometheus metrics with Elastic Observability

In this blog post, we will showcase the integration of Prometheus with Elastic, emphasizing how Elastic elevates metrics monitoring through extensive historical analytics, anomaly detection, and forecasting, all in a cost-effective manner.

Jenny Morris

How to deploy a Hello World web app with Elastic Observability on AWS App Runner

Follow the step-by-step process of instrumenting Elastic Observability for a Hello World web app running on AWS App Runner.

Jonathan Simon