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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.
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.
Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
Learn how to gather application trace data and store it alongside the logs and metrics from your applications and infrastructure with Elastic Observability and Elastic APM.
Auto-instrumentation of .NET applications with OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry provides an observability framework for cloud-native software, allowing us to trace, monitor, and debug applications seamlessly. In this post, we'll explore how to automatically instrument a .NET application using OpenTelemetry.
Manual instrumentation of .NET applications with OpenTelemetry
In this blog, we will look at how to manually instrument your .NET applications using OpenTelemetry, which provides a set of APIs, libraries, and agents to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them in Elastic.
Auto-instrumentation of Java applications with OpenTelemetry
Instrumenting Java applications with OpenTelemetry provides insights into application performance, dependencies, and errors. We'll show you how to automatically instrument a Java application using Docker, with no changes to your application code.
Manual instrumentation of Java applications with OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry provides an observability framework for cloud-native software, allowing us to trace, monitor, and debug applications seamlessly. In this post, we'll explore how to manually instrument a Java application using OpenTelemetry.
Understanding APM: How to add extensions to the OpenTelemetry Java Agent
This blog post provides a comprehensive guide for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and IT Operations to gain visibility and traceability into applications, especially those written with non-standard frameworks or without access to the source code.
Gaining new perspectives beyond logging: An introduction to application performance monitoring
Change is on the horizon for the world of logging. In this post, we’ll outline a recommended journey for moving from just logging to a fully integrated solution with logs, traces, and APM.
Monitor OpenAI API and GPT models with OpenTelemetry and Elastic
Get ready to be blown away by this game-changing approach to monitoring cutting-edge ChatGPT applications! As the ChatGPT phenomenon takes the world by storm, it's time to supercharge your monitoring game with OpenTelemetry and Elastic Observability.
How to monitor Kafka and Confluent Cloud with Elastic Observability
This blog post will take you through best practices to observe Kafka-based solutions implemented on Confluent Cloud with Elastic Observability.