OpenTelemetry Articles
ML and AI Ops Observability with OpenTelemetry and Elastic
Learn how to instrument ML and AI pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Elastic to correlate traces, logs, and metrics from notebooks to production inference services.
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
OpenTelemetry Profiles Signal Enters Alpha: Elastic’s Continuous Commitment to Profiling
OpenTelemetry Profiles has officially reached Alpha, entrenching profiling as the fourth observability signal. Elastic's core contribution of its eBPF profiling agent, continued OpenTelemetry Profiles signal work and commitment to a vendor-agnostic ecosystem are driving this industry-wide standard forward.
Centrally Managing OTel Collectors with Elastic Agent and Fleet
How Elastic Agent 9.3 unifies Beats and OpenTelemetry (OTel) data collection and delivers central management with Elastic Fleet.
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.
How we fixed head-based sampling in OpenTelemetry
Head-based sampling can break throughput charts without sampling metadata. Learn how OpenTelemetry tracestate probability fields fixed this in Java, JS, and Python.
Turn Dashboards Into an Investigation Tool with ES|QL Variable Controls
Learn how to use ES|QL variables in Kibana to turn a dashboard into an investigation tool, applying value and structure controls to uncover problems.
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.
Agent Skills for Elastic Observability
Learn how Agent Skills for Elastic Observability help SREs and developers run observability workflows through natural language to instrument apps with OpenTelemetry, search logs, manage SLOs, understand service health, and help with LLM observability.
Why Elastic donated its OpenTelemetry PHP distribution
Learn what the OpenTelemetry PHP distro donation changes for package-managed PHP environments, how it compares to existing options, and what contributors can do next.
Collecting JMX metrics with OpenTelemetry
Learn how to collect Tomcat JMX metrics with OpenTelemetry using the Java agent or jmx-scraper, then extend coverage with custom YAML rules and validate output.