Logs: The foundational signal for modern observability

Luca Wintergerst

Product Manager, Observability

Elastic

Bill Easton

Product Manager, Observability

Elastic

Open up a new world of insights with your logs! While logs were one of the first telemetry signals used in observability, their unstructured nature and high volume made it difficult to extract value and information from them. But thankfully with GenAI, OpenTelemetry, and cost-effective storage architectures, logs have re-emerged as one of the most important signals for SREs and operations teams.

Join the logging experts at Elastic (Luca and Bill) for a deep dive into the world of logs and log management for observability practitioners. Logs hold a treasure trove of valuable telemetry information, and now we can store, analyze, and gain insights from this signal in ways we never could before.

Highlights

• The history of logs in monitoring and observability
• Challenges and limitations of APM and traces
• OpenTelemetry: Enabling correlation and unified views with logs and traces
• The increased value of logs with GenAI and LLMs

Additional resources

• Log monitoring with Elastic Observability
• [blog] The power of effective log management in software dev and operations
• [blog] 3 models for logging with OpenTelemetry and Elastic