OpenTelemetry‑first, production‑ready

Elastic is built OTel-first: Your OpenTelemetry (OTel) data is ingested natively so AI and analytics work directly on your data. Our fully upstreamed supported distribution features no proprietary add-ons or conversion layers — so you always have freedom of choice.

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Observability should be open

As a long-time proponent of open standards, Elastic is committed to advancing the adoption of OpenTelemetry across the industry through active contribution and collaboration. Use our supported distribution or any other. No vendor lock-in, ever.

  • ELASTIC DISTRIBUTIONS OF OTEL (EDOT)

    Production-ready

    Monitor everything from Kubernetes to applications and hosts with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT). Get bug fixes beyond OTel release cycles, expert-backed support, and centralized agent management.

  • MANAGED OTLP ENDPOINT

    Frictionless collection

    Ship OTLP data directly into Elastic Cloud and let Elastic handle scaling, processing, and storage. The Managed OTLP Endpoint acts as a gateway for all your OTel SDKs and Collectors, simplifying ingest architecture and reducing operational overhead.

  • OPENTELEMETRY-FIRST ARCHITECTURE

    No schema conversions

    Whether you use our supported distribution or any other, we preserve native OTel semantics and add rich context (such as resource attributes) so you can query, visualize, and correlate any data.

Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT)

Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) gives you a production-ready OTel-native ecosystem, without proprietary add-ons. Whether you are instrumenting applications or collecting infrastructure telemetry with OTel, everything is sent into Elasticsearch with OTel schema untouched.

Elastic and OpenTelemetry, better together

Data silos slow you down, proprietary formats limit flexibility, and closed ecosystems make integrations painful. Consolidate all of your telemetry data into the open and extensible Elasticsearch Platform with 450+ one-click integrations and native OpenTelemetry support.

Elastic
Other vendors
OpenTelemetry-first architecture
Use OTel semantic conventions as-is for dashboards, analysis, alerts
Requires translation, proprietary layers, or extra config
No vendor lock-in
OTel native and fully upstreamed distribution — no proprietary add-ons, no vendor lock-in
Lock you in with proprietary formats or distributions with proprietary extensions
Production-ready
Elastic's OTel distribution (EDOT) comes with Elastic support and bug fixes
Supported vendor distros often lock you in; community support only for open source OTel
Managed OTLP
Simplify ingest with a single collection endpoint, and scale, ingest, process, and store without extra ops
OTLP ingest requires proprietary exporters, processors, and a more complex ingest architecture
Centralized agent management
Central management for OTel SDKs via OpAMP
Limited or none. Proprietary agent management does not cover OTel SDKs.
OTel contributions
Top 3 OTel contributor, including major contributions such as ECS and profiling agent
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OpenTelemetry-first architecture
No vendor lock-in
Production-ready
Managed OTLP
Centralized agent management
OTel contributions
Elastic
Other vendors
Use OTel semantic conventions as-is for dashboards, analysis, alerts
Requires translation, proprietary layers, or extra config
OTel native and fully upstreamed distribution — no proprietary add-ons, no vendor lock-in
Lock you in with proprietary formats or distributions with proprietary extensions
Elastic's OTel distribution (EDOT) comes with Elastic support and bug fixes
Supported vendor distros often lock you in; community support only for open source OTel
Simplify ingest with a single collection endpoint, and scale, ingest, process, and store without extra ops
OTLP ingest requires proprietary exporters, processors, and a more complex ingest architecture
Central management for OTel SDKs via OpAMP
Limited or none. Proprietary agent management does not cover OTel SDKs.
Top 3 OTel contributor, including major contributions such as ECS and profiling agent
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Check out our OpenTelemetry resources on Elastic Observability Labs, GitHub, and more

  • Observability Labs

    Tracing, logs, and metrics for a RAG-based Chatbot with EDOT

  • Observability Labs

    Elastic's Managed OTLP Endpoint: Simpler, scalable OpenTelemetry for SREs

  • Observability Labs

    EDOT SDK central configuration using OpAMP in Elastic Observability

  • Observability Labs

    Native OTel-based K8s and app observability in 3 steps with Elastic

An OTel-first platform for all your observability needs

Send your OpenTelemetry data directly to Elastic and get all the benefits of a full stack production-ready observability platform.

  • Log analytics

    Ingest logs from anywhere and automatically group them into patterns, highlight anomalies, and pinpoint spikes — so you get answers, not overload.

  • Application performance monitoring

    Production-grade pure OTel. Stream native OTel without proprietary agents, and gain broad language support with sampling.

  • Infrastructure monitoring

    From bare metal to the cloud. Gain visibility across cloud, on-prem, Kubernetes, serverless, and hosts with 400+ OOTB integrations.

  • AIOps

    Zero-config, always-on analysis that keeps you ahead. Instantly surface anomalies, patterns, correlations, and root causes.

  • LLM observability

    Get visibility into GenAI apps and agentic workflows. Track latency, errors, prompts, responses, usage, and costs.

  • Digital experience monitoring

    Monitor critical user journeys and track SLOs so you can detect, investigate, and fix issues before they affect your users.

See why companies like yours choose Elastic

Companies rely on Elastic for end-to-end OpenTelemetry-first observability.

  • Customer spotlight

    Discover reduced storage costs by 50% and expanded beyond centralized logging by implementing OpenTelemetry, APM, and AI with Elastic.

  • Customer spotlight

    WePay cut time to identify customer impact during incidents by 90% with Elastic, correlating logs, metrics, and traces with APM and OpenTelemetry.

  • Customer spotlight

    By consolidating multiple tools with Elastic's OpenTelemetry-first observability, Oney Bank reduced IT costs by 30% and incident detection time by 95%, while avoiding vendor lock-in.

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