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How Streams in Elastic Observability Simplifies Retention Management
Log AnalyticsOpenTelemetryGenAI

How Streams in Elastic Observability Simplifies Retention Management

Learn how Streams simplifies retention management in Elasticsearch with a unified view to monitor, visualize, and control data lifecycles using DSL or ILM.

Kevin Lacabane

Introducing Streams for Observability: Your first stop for investigations
Log AnalyticsOpenTelemetry

Introducing Streams for Observability: Your first stop for investigations

Introducing Elastic Streams, an new AI observability feature that transforms logs from a noisy and expensive data source into a primary investigation signal.

Bahubali Shetti

Luca Wintergerst

Live logs and prosper: fixing a fundamental flaw in observability
Log AnalyticsGenAIOpenTelemetry

Live logs and prosper: fixing a fundamental flaw in observability

Stop chasing symptoms. Learn how Streams, in Elastic Observability fixes the fundamental flaw in observability, using AI to proactively find the 'why' in your logs for faster resolution.

Ken Exner

Explore and Analyze Metrics with Ease in Elastic Observability
MetricsOpenTelemetry

Explore and Analyze Metrics with Ease in Elastic Observability

The latest enhancements to ES|QL and Discover based metrics exploration unleash a potent set of tools for quick and effective metrics analytics.

Vinay Chandrasekhar

AI-driven incident response with logs: A technical deep dive in Elastic Observability
Log AnalyticsAI Assistant

AI-driven incident response with logs: A technical deep dive in Elastic Observability

How Elastic combines ML anomaly detection, ES|QL, and the AI Assistant to accelerate incident response using logs.

David Hope

A day in the life of an OpenTelemetry maintainer
OpenTelemetry

A day in the life of an OpenTelemetry maintainer

In this article, we will discover what the role of a maintainer is about, and how they make Open Source projects alive.

Damien Mathieu

Automating User Journeys for Synthetic Monitoring with MCP in Elastic
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Automating User Journeys for Synthetic Monitoring with MCP in Elastic

This post explores how you can automatically create user journeys with Synthetic Monitoring in Elastic Observability, TypeScript, and FastMCP, and walks through the app and its workflow.

Jessica Garson

Getting more from your logs with OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetryLog Analytics

Getting more from your logs with OpenTelemetry

Learn how to evolve beyond basic log ingest by leveraging OpenTelemetry for ingestion, structured logging, geographic enrichment, and ES|QL analytics. Transform raw log data into actionable intelligence with practical examples and proactive observability strategies.

David Hope

From Uptime to Synthetics in Elastic: Your migration Playbook
Synthetics

From Uptime to Synthetics in Elastic: Your migration Playbook

Effortlessly migrate your existing Uptime TCP, ICMP, and HTTP monitors to Elastic Synthetics with this comprehensive guide, leveraging Private Locations and Synthetics Projects for efficient, future-proof monitoring.

Carles Salvador

Traces in Discover for Deeper Application Insights in Elastic Observability
APMOpenTelemetry

Traces in Discover for Deeper Application Insights in Elastic Observability

Elastic brings traces into Discover. See how you can apply the capabilities of ad-hoc data exploration and ES|QL to your tracing data.

Alex Fedotyev

Smarter Alerting Arrives with Faster Triage, Clearer Groupings, and Actionable Guidance
Log Analytics

Smarter Alerting Arrives with Faster Triage, Clearer Groupings, and Actionable Guidance

Exploring the latest enhancements in Elastic Stack alerting, including improved related alert grouping, linking dashboards to alert rules, and embedding investigation guides into alerts.

Drew Post

The observability gap: Why your monitoring strategy isn't ready for what's coming next
Log Analytics

The observability gap: Why your monitoring strategy isn't ready for what's coming next

The increasing complexity of distributed applications and the observability data they generate creates challenges for SREs and IT Operations teams. Take a look at how you can close this observability gap with OpenTelemetry and the right strategy.

David Hope