Blogs
Hands-on, insight-driven content about observing your production and development environments using Elastic Observability.
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.
Using Elastic Agent Builder & OpenTelemetry to Observe Devices
Learn how to use Elastic Agent Builder and OpenTelemetry to build IoT observability and gain insights into your appliance usage patterns and efficiency.
Bridging the Gap: End-to-End Observability from Cloud Native to Mainframe
Achieving end-to-end observability in hybrid enterprise environments, where modern cloud-native applications interact with critical, yet often opaque, IBM mainframe systems is a challenge. By utilizing IBM Z Observability Connect, which enables OTel output, with Elastic Observability is a solution, transforming your mainframe black box into a fully observable component in your deployment
Elastic's metrics analytics gets 5x faster
Explore Elastic's metrics analytics enhancements, including faster ES|QL queries, TSDS updates and OpenTelemetry exponential histogram support.
A train ride away from a million events per second with EDOT Cloud Forwarder
EDOT Cloud Forwarder for AWS from Elastic Observability is now Generally Available. Deploying EDOT Cloud Forwarder and reliably handling one million events per second with zero intervention, zero data loss, and zero idle cost.
A Practical Guide to end-to-end distributed tracing for Nginx with OpenTelemetry in Elastic
Instrument Nginx with the OpenTelemetry tracing module and export spans to Elastic Observability's APM for full end-to-end distributed tracing.
Accelerate Otel Adoption with Elastic Agent Hybrid Ingestion
Elastic Agent 9.2 brings hybrid ingestion to Elastic Observability, unifying native integrations and OpenTelemetry receivers to simplify large-scale OTel adoption without disruption.
Streams Processing: Stop Fighting with Grok. Parse Your Logs in Streams.
Learn how Streams Processing works under the hood and how to use it to build, test, and deploy parsing logic on live data quickly.
Find answers quickly, correlate OpenTelemetry traces with existing ECS logs in Elastic Observability
In this blog we will discuss how EDOT enables you to collect existing ECS logs while ensuring a seamless and transparent move to OTel semantic conventions. The key benefit is that applications can continue sending logs as they do today, which minimizes the effort and impact on application developers.