Elastic announces the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Java Agent, a fully OTel-compatible agent with a rich set of useful additional features.

Distributed tracing is essential in understanding complex systems, but it can miss latency issue details. By combining profiling techniques with distributed tracing, Elastic provides the inferred spans feature as an extension for the OTel Java SDK.

OpenTelemetry is embracing profiling. Elastic is donating its whole-system continuous profiling agent to OpenTelemetry to further this advancement, empowering OTel users to improve computational efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint.

This blog walks through installing the Elastic APM K8s Attacher and shows how to configure your system for both common and non-standard deployments of Elastic APM agents.

The instrumentation approach in OpenTelemetry's Java Agent comes with some limitations with respect to maintenance and testability. Elastic contributes an invokedynamic-based instrumentation approach that helps overcoming these limitations.

Elastic has launched its APM agent for Android applications, allowing developers to track key aspects of applications to help troubleshoot issues and performance flaws with mobile applications, corresponding backend services, and their interactions.