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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.

Sophia Solomon

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.

Bahubali Shetti

Using Azure SRE Agent and Elasticsearch to boost SRE productivity

Learn how to integrate the Azure SRE Agent with Elasticsearch to benefit from AI-driven autonomous operations, smarter detection, and proactive prevention.

Greg Crist

Process Kubernetes logs with ease using Elastic Streams

Learn how to process Kubernetes logs with Elastic Streams using conditional blocks, AI-generated Grok patterns, and selective drops to reduce noise and storage cost.

Luca Wintergerst

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.

Pawel Filipczak

Troubleshooting Kafka-Logstash-Elasticsearch Performance Issues in delay-sensitive platforms

Learn how to troubleshoot ingestion bottlenecks in data pipelines built with Kafka, Logstash and Elasticsearch.

Abdelwahhab Satta

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.

Sylvain Juge

Log Processing UX Design in Elastic Streams

Explore log processing in Elastic Streams and the design decisions behind the Processing UX that make log data more accessible, consistent, and actionable.

Boris Kirov

How to Troubleshoot Kubernetes Pod Restarts & OOMKilled Events with Agent Builder

Learn how to immediately troubleshoot Kubernetes pod restarts and OOMKilled events with Elastic Agent Builder. We’ll show how to detect, analyze, and remediate failures.

Jen Luther Thomas

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.

Patrick Boulanger

Automated log parsing in Streams with ML

Learn how a hybrid ML approach achieved 94% log parsing and 91% log partitioning accuracy through automation experiments with log format fingerprinting in Streams.

Nastia Havriushenko

Logstash Pipeline Management & Configuration with GitOps

Stop treating Logstash like a black box. This guide shows you how to use GitOps to create auditable, automated, and resilient data pipelines. Eliminate config drift and boost security with this GitHub and Jenkins blueprint.

Adrian Chen