Elastic Observability Labs

Elastic Universal Profiling: Delivering performance improvements and reduced costs
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Elastic Universal Profiling: Delivering performance improvements and reduced costs

In this blog, we’ll cover how a discovery by one of our engineers led to cost savings of thousands of dollars in our QA environment and magnitudes more once we deployed this change to production.

Luca Wintergerst

Tim Rühsen

Revealing unknowns in your tracing data with inferred spans in OpenTelemetry
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Revealing unknowns in your tracing data with inferred spans in OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing is essential in understanding complex systems, but it can miss latency issue details. By combining profiling techniques with distributed tracing, Elastic provides the inferred spans feature as an extension for the OTel Java SDK.

Jonas Kunz

Alexander Wert

Migrating from Elastic’s Go APM agent to OpenTelemetry Go SDK
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Migrating from Elastic’s Go APM agent to OpenTelemetry Go SDK

As OpenTelemetry is fast becoming an industry standard, Elastic is fast adopting it as well. In this post, we show you a safe and easy way to migrate your Go application from our APM agent to OpenTelemetry.

Damien Mathieu

The Elastic AI Assistant for Observability escapes Kibana!
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The Elastic AI Assistant for Observability escapes Kibana!

Harness the Elastic AI Assistant API to seamlessly blend Elastic's Observability capabilities into your daily workflow, from Slack to the command line, boosting efficiency and decision-making. Work smarter, not harder.

Jeff Vestal

Getting started with the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and Microsoft Azure OpenAI
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Getting started with the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and Microsoft Azure OpenAI

Follow this step-by-step process to get started with the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and Microsoft Azure OpenAI.

Jonathan Simon

Introducing Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET
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Introducing Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET

Today, we are excited to announce the alpha release of our new Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET. In this post, we cover a few likely questions you may have about this new distribution and explain how to get started.

Steve Gordon

Martijn Laarman

Beyond the trace: Pinpointing performance culprits with continuous profiling and distributed tracing correlation
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Beyond the trace: Pinpointing performance culprits with continuous profiling and distributed tracing correlation

Frustrated by slow traces but unsure where the code bottleneck lies? Elastic Universal Profiling correlates profiling stacktraces with OpenTelemetry (OTel) traces, helping you identify and pinpoint the exact lines of code causing performance issues.

Joel Höner

Israel Ogbole

Jonas Kunz

Analyzing OpenTelemetry apps with Elastic AI Assistant and APM
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Analyzing OpenTelemetry apps with Elastic AI Assistant and APM

Elastic Observability provides native OpenTelemetry support, but analyzing applications logs, metrics, and traces can be daunting. Elastic Observability not only provides AIOps features but also an AI Assistant (co-pilot) to help get to MTTR faster.

Bahubali Shetti

OpenTelemetry and Elastic: Working together to establish continuous profiling for the community
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OpenTelemetry and Elastic: Working together to establish continuous profiling for the community

OpenTelemetry is embracing profiling. Elastic is donating its whole-system continuous profiling agent to OpenTelemetry to further this advancement, empowering OTel users to improve computational efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint.

Israel Ogbole

Alexander Wert

Tim Rühsen

Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
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Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment

Learn how to gather application trace data and store it alongside the logs and metrics from your applications and infrastructure with Elastic Observability and Elastic APM.

David Hope

Build better Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from logs and metrics
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Build better Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from logs and metrics

To help manage operations and business metrics, Elastic Observability's SLO (Service Level Objectives) feature was introduced in 8.12. This blog reviews this feature and how you can use it with Elastic's AI Assistant to meet SLOs.

Bahubali Shetti

Elastic APM for iOS and Android Native apps
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Elastic APM for iOS and Android Native apps

This blog provides an overview of the key capabilities included in the Elastic APM solution for iOS and Android native apps, as well as a walkthrough of the configuration details and troubleshooting workflow for a few error scenarios.

Akhilesh Pokhariyal

Cesar Munoz

Bryce Buchanan