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Introducing the OTTL Playground for OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry

Introducing the OTTL Playground for OpenTelemetry

Elastic is proud to introduce the OTTL Playground (https://ottl.run), a powerful and user-friendly tool designed to allow users to experiment with OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL) effortlessly. The playground provides a rich interface for users to create, modify, and test statements in real-time, making it easier to understand how different configurations impact the OpenTelemetry data transformation.

Edmo Vamerlatti Costa

LLM observability: track usage and manage costs with Elastic's OpenAI integration
OpenAIGenAILLM Observability

LLM observability: track usage and manage costs with Elastic's OpenAI integration

Elastic's new OpenAI integration for Observability provides comprehensive insights into OpenAI model usage. With our pre-built dashboards and metrics, you can effectively track and monitor OpenAI model usage including GPT-4o and DALL·E.

Subham Sarkar

Daniela Tzvetkova

LLM observability with Elastic: Taming the LLM with Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock
AWSGenAILLM Observability

LLM observability with Elastic: Taming the LLM with Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock

Elastic’s enhanced Amazon Bedrock integration for Observability now includes Guardrails monitoring, offering real-time visibility into AI safety mechanisms. Track guardrail performance, usage, and policy interventions with pre-built dashboards. Learn how to set up observability for Guardrails and monitor key signals to strengthen safeguards against hallucinations, harmful content, and policy violations.

Agi K Thomas

Daniela Tzvetkova

2025 observability trends: Maturing beyond the hype
OpenTelemetryGenAILLM Observability

2025 observability trends: Maturing beyond the hype

Discover what 500+ decision-makers revealed about OpenTelemetry adoption, GenAI integration, and LLM monitoring—insights that separate innovators from followers in Elastic's 2025 observability survey.

David Hope

Monitor your C++ Applications with Elastic APM
OpenTelemetryAPMInstrumentationLog Analytics

Monitor your C++ Applications with Elastic APM

In this article we will be using the Opentelemetry CPP client to monitor C++ application within Elastic APM

Haidar Braimaanie

Tracing a RAG based Chatbot with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry and Langtrace
OpenTelemetryAPMPythonInstrumentationOpenAILLM ObservabilityKubernetes

Tracing a RAG based Chatbot with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry and Langtrace

How to observe a OpenAI RAG based application using Elastic. Instrument the app, collect logs, traces, metrics, and understand how well the LLM is performing with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes with Langtrace.

Bahubali Shetti

Using Anomaly Detection in Elastic Cloud to Identify Fraud

Using Anomaly Detection in Elastic Cloud to Identify Fraud

Follow the step-by-step process of using Elastic Cloud’s anomaly detection to analyze example credit card transactions to detect potential fraud.

Jonathan Simon

Karen Mcdermott

Tracing, logs, and metrics for a RAG based Chatbot with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetryAPMPythonInstrumentationOpenAILLM ObservabilityKubernetes

Tracing, logs, and metrics for a RAG based Chatbot with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry

How to observe a OpenAI RAG based application using Elastic. Instrument the app, collect logs, traces, metrics, and understand how well the LLM is performing with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes and Docker.

Bahubali Shetti

Instrumenting your OpenAI-powered Python, Node.js, and Java Applications with EDOT
Azure OpenAIOpenAIOpenTelemetryGenAIJavaPythonLLM Observability

Instrumenting your OpenAI-powered Python, Node.js, and Java Applications with EDOT

Elastic is proud to introduce OpenAI support in our Python, Node.js and Java EDOT SDKs. These add logs, metrics and tracing to applications that use OpenAI compatible services without any code change.

Adrian Cole

Deploying Elastic Agent with Confluent Cloud's Elasticsearch Connector
Log Analytics

Deploying Elastic Agent with Confluent Cloud's Elasticsearch Connector

Confluent Cloud users can now use the updated Elasticsearch Sink Connector with Elastic Agent and Elastic Integrations for a fully-managed and highly scalable data ingest architecture.

Nima Rezainia

Assembling an OpenTelemetry NGINX Ingress Controller Integration
OpenTelemetry

Assembling an OpenTelemetry NGINX Ingress Controller Integration

This blog post explores how to set up an OpenTelemetry integration for the NGINX Ingress Controller, detailing the configuration process, key transformations, and upcoming enhancements for modular configuration support.

Roger Coll

Elevate LLM Observability with GCP Vertex AI Integration
GenAIGoogle CloudLLM Observability

Elevate LLM Observability with GCP Vertex AI Integration

Enhance LLM observability with Elastic's GCP Vertex AI Integration — gain actionable insights into model performance, resource efficiency, and operational reliability.

Ishleen Kaur

Muthukumar Paramasivam

Daniela Tzvetkova