Instrumentation Articles
Composing OpenTelemetry Reference Architectures
A conceptual framework for reasoning about OpenTelemetry Collection architectures — edge, processing, and resilience layers that compose into the right pipeline for your environment.
AI agent observability and monitoring with OTel, OpenLit & Elastic
Learn how to monitor AI web agents to identify performance bottlenecks, token waste, and hallucinations using OpenTelemetry, OpenLit, and Elastic
Now GA: Managed OTLP Endpoint on Elastic Cloud Hosted
The Elastic Managed OTLP Endpoint is now generally available on Elastic Cloud Hosted, bringing managed Kafka-backed resilience and native OTLP ingestion to any OpenTelemetry shipper.
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.
Elastic’s Managed OTLP Endpoint: Simpler, Scalable OpenTelemetry for SREs
Streamline OpenTelemetry data ingestion with Elastic Observability's new managed OTLP endpoint available on Elastic Cloud Serverless. Get native OTel storage and Elastic-grade scaling for logs, metrics, and traces, simplifying observability for SREs.
Web Frontend Instrumentation and Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and Elastic
Learn how frontend instrumentation differs to backend, and the current state of client web instrumentation in OpenTelemetry
Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) Now GA: Open-Source, Production-Ready OTel
Elastic is proud to introduce General Availability of Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT), which contains Elastic’s versions of the OpenTelemetry Collector and several language SDKs like Python, Java, .NET, and NodeJS. These help provide enhanced features and enterprise-grade support for EDOT.
Monitor your C++ Applications with Elastic APM
In this article we will be using the Opentelemetry CPP client to monitor C++ application within Elastic APM
Tracing a RAG based Chatbot with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry and Langtrace
How to observe a OpenAI RAG based application using Elastic. Instrument the app, collect logs, traces, metrics, and understand how well the LLM is performing with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes with Langtrace.
Tracing, logs, and metrics for a RAG based Chatbot with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry
How to observe a OpenAI RAG based application using Elastic. Instrument the app, collect logs, traces, metrics, and understand how well the LLM is performing with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes and Docker.
Auto-instrumentation of Go applications with OpenTelemetry
Instrumenting Go applications with OpenTelemetry provides insights into application performance, dependencies, and errors. We'll show you how to automatically instrument a Go application using Docker, with no changes to your application code.
Introducing Elastic's distribution of OpenTelemetry PHP
Announcing the first alpha release of the Elastic distribution of OpenTelemetry PHP. See how easy it is to instrument your PHP applications with OpenTelemetry in this blog post.