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How Streams in Elastic Observability Simplifies Retention Management
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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
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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
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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

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

Getting more from your logs with OpenTelemetry
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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

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

Serverless log analytics powered by Elasticsearch, in a new low priced tier
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Serverless log analytics powered by Elasticsearch, in a new low priced tier

Elastic Observability Logs Essentials delivers cost-effective, hassle-free log analytics on Elastic Cloud Serverless. SREs can ingest, search, enrich, analyze, store, and act on logs without the operational overhead of managing the deployment.

Chris DiStasio

Bahubali Shetti

Connecting the Dots: ES|QL Joins for Richer Observability Insights
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Connecting the Dots: ES|QL Joins for Richer Observability Insights

Now in tech preview, ES|QL LOOKUP JOIN lets you enrich logs, metrics, and traces at query time no need to denormalize at ingest. Add deployment, infra, or business context dynamically, reduce storage, and accelerate root cause analysis in Elastic Obervability.

Luca Wintergerst

Dynamic workload discovery on Kubernetes now supported with EDOT Collector
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Dynamic workload discovery on Kubernetes now supported with EDOT Collector

Discover how Elastic's OpenTelemetry Collector leverages Kubernetes pod annotations providing dynamic workload discovery and improves automated metric and log collection for Kubernetes clusters.

Christos Markou

Alexander Wert

Monitor your C++ Applications with Elastic APM
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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

Haidar Braimaanie

Deploying Elastic Agent with Confluent Cloud's Elasticsearch Connector
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Deploying Elastic Agent with Confluent Cloud's Elasticsearch Connector

Confluent Cloud users can now use the updated Elasticsearch Sink Connector with Elastic Agent and Elastic Integrations for a fully-managed and highly scalable data ingest architecture.

Nima Rezainia