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- Observability: other versions:
- Get started
- What is Elastic Observability?
- What’s new in 8.17
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Monitor your Kubernetes cluster with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Unified Kubernetes Observability with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT)
- Quickstart: Collect data with AWS Firehose
- Add data from Splunk
- Applications and services
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Get started
- Learn about data types
- Collect application data
- View and analyze data
- Act on data
- Use APM securely
- Manage storage
- Configure APM Server
- Monitor APM Server
- APM APIs
- Troubleshooting
- Upgrade
- Release notes
- APM version HEAD
- APM version 8.17
- APM version 8.16
- APM version 8.15
- APM version 8.14
- APM version 8.13
- APM version 8.12
- APM version 8.11
- APM version 8.10
- APM version 8.9
- APM version 8.8
- APM version 8.7
- APM version 8.6
- APM version 8.5
- APM version 8.4
- APM version 8.3
- APM version 8.2
- APM version 8.1
- APM version 8.0
- Known issues
- Synthetic monitoring
- Get started
- Scripting browser monitors
- Configure lightweight monitors
- Manage monitors
- Work with params and secrets
- Analyze monitor data
- Monitor resources on private networks
- Use the CLI
- 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
- Real user monitoring
- Uptime monitoring (deprecated)
- Tutorial: Monitor a Java application
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Infrastructure and hosts
- Logs
- Troubleshooting
- Incident management
- Data set quality
- Observability AI Assistant
- Reference
Rely on the most widely deployed observability solution, powered by machine learning and analytics, to converge metrics, logs, and traces that deliver unified visibility and actionable insights.
- Eliminate tool silos and efficiently store data
- Get visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Monitor your digital experience — 24/7
Using serverless? Go to the Elastic Observability serverless docs.
What do you want to observe?
Use cases
Cloud monitoring
Cross-platform and multi-cloud visibility and analytics.
- Monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Learn how to monitor AWS logs (VPC Flow and S3 access) and metrics (billing and EC2). - Monitor Microsoft Azure
Learn how to monitor Azure billing metrics and activity logs.
DevOps
Observe your entire software lifecycle — from development to production.
- CI/CD
Get better visibility into your CI/CD pipelines. - ECS logging
Leverage the Elastic Common Schema logging libraries to automatically link application traces to their corresponding logs.
AIOps
Automate anomaly detection and accelerate root cause analysis.
- Root cause analysis with logs
Learn about Elastic’s artificial intelligence for IT operations and machine learning capabilities for root cause analysis. - APM Correlations
Automatically identify the probable causes of slow or failed transactions.
User experience
Measure, gauge, and improve your end users’ experience.
- Scripting browser monitors
Simulate critical user workflows on a regular interval to catch bugs before your users report them. - User experience
Learn how to track Core Web Vitals and how to use them to quantify the real-world user experience.