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What is Elastic Observability?
What’s new in 8.15
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- Logs and metrics
- Traces and APM
- Data from Splunk
Observability AI Assistant
Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Self manage APM Server
  - APM Server binary
  - Fleet-managed APM Server
- Data Model
  - Spans
  - Transactions
  - Errors
  - Metrics
  - Metadata
- Features
- Navigate the APM UI
- Perform common tasks in the APM UI
- Use OpenTelemetry
- Manage storage
- Configure
- Advanced setup
- Secure communication
  - With APM agents
  - With the Elastic Stack
    - Use feature roles
    - Grant access using API keys
- Monitor
- APM Server API
- APM UI API
- Troubleshoot
- Upgrade
- Release notes
- Known issues
Log monitoring
- Stream any log file
- Parse and organize logs
- Filter and aggregate logs
- Stream application logs
- Explore logs
- Monitor log data set quality
- Add a service name to logs
- Logs index template reference
- Troubleshoot logs
Infrastructure monitoring
- View infrastructure metrics by resource type
- Explore infrastructure metrics over time
- Analyze and compare hosts
- Detect metric anomalies
- Configure settings
- Metrics reference
AWS monitoring
- Ingestion options
- Monitor AWS with Elastic Agent
- Monitor AWS with Beats
- Monitor AWS with Amazon Data Firehose
- Monitor AWS with Elastic Serverless Forwarder
Azure monitoring
- Monitor Microsoft Azure with Elastic Agent
- Monitor Microsoft Azure with Beats
- Monitor Microsoft Azure with the Azure Native ISV Service
- Monitor Microsoft Azure OpenAI
Synthetic monitoring
- Get started
  - Use Project monitors
  - Use the Synthetics app
- Scripting browser monitors
- Configure lightweight monitors
- Manage monitors
- Work with params and secrets
- Analyze monitor data
- Monitor resources on private networks
- Use the CLI
  - Filtering monitors
- Configure projects
- Multi-factor Authentication
- Configure Synthetics settings
- Grant users access to secured resources
- Manage data retention
- Use Synthetics with traffic filters
- Migrate from the Elastic Synthetics integration
- Scale and architect a deployment
- Synthetics support matrix
- Synthetics Encryption and Security
- Troubleshooting
Uptime monitoring
- Get started with Uptime
- Analyze
- Configure settings
- Troubleshoot mapping issues
Real user monitoring
Universal Profiling
- Get started
- Manage data storage
  - Index lifecycle management
  - Configure probabilistic profiling
- Advanced configuration
- Upgrade
- Troubleshoot
- Self-hosted infrastructure
Alerting
- Create and manage rules
- Aggregation options
  - Rate aggregation
- View alerts
  - SLO burn rate breaches
  - Threshold breaches
Service-level objectives (SLOs)
- Configure SLO access
- Create an SLO
Cases
- Configure access to cases
- Open and manage new cases
- Configure case settings
CI/CD observability
Troubleshooting
- Explore data
- Inspect
Fields reference
- Logs app fields
- Infrastructure app fields
Tutorials
- Monitor Google Cloud Platform
  - GCP Dataflow templates
- Monitor a Java application
- Monitor nginx
- Monitor Kubernetes

IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.

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APM UI API user

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APM UI API user

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Central configuration API

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Users can list, search, create, update, and delete central configurations via the APM UI API.

Assign the following Kibana feature privileges:

Type Privilege Purpose

Kibana

all on the APM and User Experience feature

Allow all access to the APM and User Experience apps

Type	Privilege	Purpose
Kibana	`all` on the APM and User Experience feature	Allow all access to the APM and User Experience apps

Central configuration API reader

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Sometimes a user only needs to list and search central configurations via the APM UI API.

Assign the following Kibana feature privileges:

Type Privilege Purpose

Kibana

read on the APM and User Experience feature

Allow read access to the APM and User Experience apps

Type	Privilege	Purpose
Kibana	`read` on the APM and User Experience feature	Allow read access to the APM and User Experience apps

Annotation API

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Users can use the annotation API to create annotations on their APM data.

Create a new role, named something like annotation_role, and assign the following privileges:

Type	Privilege	Purpose
Index	`manage` on `observability-annotations` index	Check if the `observability-annotations` index exists
Index	`read` on `observability-annotations` index	Read the `observability-annotations` index
Index	`create_index` on `observability-annotations` index	Create the `observability-annotations` index
Index	`create_doc` on `observability-annotations` index	Create new annotations in the `observability-annotations` index

Assign the annotation_role created previously, and the following Kibana feature privileges to any annotation API users:

Type Privilege Purpose

Kibana

all on the APM and User Experience feature

Allow all access to the APM and User Experience apps

Type	Privilege	Purpose
Kibana	`all` on the APM and User Experience feature	Allow all access to the APM and User Experience apps

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