Elastic Observability Labs

Auto-instrumentation of Go applications with OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetryAPMInstrumentation

Auto-instrumentation of Go applications with OpenTelemetry

Instrumenting Go applications with OpenTelemetry provides insights into application performance, dependencies, and errors. We'll show you how to automatically instrument a Go application using Docker, with no changes to your application code.

Damien Mathieu

The DNA of DATA Increasing Efficiency with the Elastic Common Schema
Log Analytics

The DNA of DATA Increasing Efficiency with the Elastic Common Schema

Elastic ECS helps improve semantic conversion of log fields. Learn how quantifying the benefits of normalized data, not just for infrastructure efficiency, but also data fidelity.

Peter Titov

Using NLP and Pattern Matching to Detect, Assess, and Redact PII in Logs - Part 1
Log Analytics

Using NLP and Pattern Matching to Detect, Assess, and Redact PII in Logs - Part 1

How to detect and assess PII in your logs using Elasticsearch and NLP

Stephen Brown

Future-proof your logs with ecs@mappings template
Log Analytics

Future-proof your logs with ecs@mappings template

Explore how the ecs@mappings component template in Elasticsearch simplifies data management by providing a centralized, official definition of Elastic Common Schema (ECS) mappings. Learn about its benefits, including reduced configuration hassles, improved data integrity, and enhanced performance for both integration developers and community users. Discover how this feature streamlines ECS field support across Elastic Agent integrations and future-proofs your data streams.

Maurizio Branca

Introducing Elastic's distribution of OpenTelemetry PHP
OpenTelemetryAPMInstrumentation

Introducing Elastic's distribution of OpenTelemetry PHP

Announcing the first alpha release of the Elastic distribution of OpenTelemetry PHP. See how easy it is to instrument your PHP applications with OpenTelemetry in this blog post.

Pawel Filipczak

Announcing GA of Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent
OpenTelemetryJavaInstrumentation

Announcing GA of Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent

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

Alexander Wert

Jack Shirazi

Jonas Kunz

Sylvain Juge

Best Practices for Log Management: Leveraging Logs for Faster Problem Resolution
Log Analytics

Best Practices for Log Management: Leveraging Logs for Faster Problem Resolution

Explore effective log management strategies to improve system reliability and performance. Learn about data collection, processing, analysis, and cost-effective management of logs in complex software environments.

Luca Wintergerst

David Hope

Bahubali Shetti

Kibana: How to create impactful visualisations with magic formulas ? (part 1)
Log Analytics

Kibana: How to create impactful visualisations with magic formulas ? (part 1)

We will see how magic math formulas in the Kibana Lens editor can help to highlight high values.

Vincent du Sordet

Accelerate log analytics in Elastic Observability with Automatic Import powered by Search AI
Log Analytics

Accelerate log analytics in Elastic Observability with Automatic Import powered by Search AI

Migrate your logs to AI-driven log analytics in record time by automating custom data integrations

Bahubali Shetti

Observing Langchain applications with Elastic, OpenTelemetry, and Langtrace
OpenTelemetryAPMPythonInstrumentationAzure OpenAI

Observing Langchain applications with Elastic, OpenTelemetry, and Langtrace

Langchain applications are growing in use. The ability to build out RAG-based applications, simple AI Assistants, and more is becoming the norm. Observing these applications is even harder. Given the various options that are out there, this blog shows how to use OpenTelemetry instrumentation with Langtrace and ingest it into Elastic Observability APM

Bahubali Shetti

Karthik Kalyanaraman

Yemi Adejumobi

LLM Observability with Elastic, OpenLIT and OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetryAPMPythonInstrumentationAzure OpenAI

LLM Observability with Elastic, OpenLIT and OpenTelemetry

Langchain applications are growing in use. The ability to build out RAG-based applications, simple AI Assistants, and more is becoming the norm. Observing these applications is even harder. Given the various options that are out there, this blog shows how to use OpenTelemetry instrumentation with the OpenLIT instrumentation library to ingest traces into Elastic Observability APM.

Bahubali Shetti

Aman Agarwal

Tailoring span names and enriching spans without changing code with OpenTelemetry - Part 1
OpenTelemetryAPMInstrumentation

Tailoring span names and enriching spans without changing code with OpenTelemetry - Part 1

The OpenTelemetry Collector offers powerful capabilities to enrich and refine telemetry data before it reaches your observability tools. In this blog post, we'll explore how to leverage the Collector to create more meaningful transaction names in Elastic Observability, significantly enhancing the value of your monitoring data.

David Hope