David Hope

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David Hope

Director, Observability and AIOps Solutions at Elastic


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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

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

How to power Observability AI Assistant with local LLMs for on-prem deployments
GenAIAI Assistant

How to power Observability AI Assistant with local LLMs for on-prem deployments

Finally take advantage of the many benefits that you can get from the Elastic Observability AI Assistant from private or on-prem LLM deployments.

David Hope

Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
APMOpenTelemetry

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.

David Hope

Auto-instrumentation of .NET applications with OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetryAPMInstrumentation

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.

David Hope

Manual instrumentation of .NET applications with OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetryAPMInstrumentation

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.

David Hope

Auto-instrumentation of Java applications with OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetryJavaAPMInstrumentation

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.

David Hope

Manual instrumentation of Java applications with OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetryJavaAPMInstrumentation

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.

David Hope

Understanding APM: How to add extensions to the OpenTelemetry Java Agent
OpenTelemetryAPMJava

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.

David Hope

Gaining new perspectives beyond logging: An introduction to application performance monitoring
JavaLog AnalyticsAPMOpenTelemetry

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.

David Hope

Monitor OpenAI API and GPT models with OpenTelemetry and Elastic
OpenTelemetryAPMGenAI

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.

David Hope

How to monitor Kafka and Confluent Cloud with Elastic Observability
KubernetesAPM

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.

David Hope