Jack Shirazi

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Jack Shirazi

Principal Software Engineer


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Announcing GA of Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent
OpenTelemetryJavaInstrumentation

Announcing GA of Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent

Elastic announces general availability of the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Java Agent, a fully OTel-compatible agent with a rich set of useful additional features.

Alexander Wert

Jack Shirazi

Jonas Kunz

Sylvain Juge

Using a custom agent with the OpenTelemetry Operator for Kubernetes
OpenTelemetryAPMJavaInstrumentationKubernetes

Using a custom agent with the OpenTelemetry Operator for Kubernetes

Jack Shirazi

Zero config OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation for Kubernetes Java applications
OpenTelemetryAPMJavaInstrumentationKubernetes

Zero config OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation for Kubernetes Java applications

Walking through how to install and enable the OpenTelemetry Operator for Kubernetes to auto-instrument Java applications, with no configuration changes needed for deployments

Jack Shirazi

How to easily add application monitoring in Kubernetes pods
KubernetesElastic AgentAPM

How to easily add application monitoring in Kubernetes pods

This blog walks through installing the Elastic APM K8s Attacher and shows how to configure your system for both common and non-standard deployments of Elastic APM agents.

Jack Shirazi

Sylvain Juge

Alexander Wert

Elastic's contribution: Invokedynamic in the OpenTelemetry Java agent
OpenTelemetryJava

Elastic's contribution: Invokedynamic in the OpenTelemetry Java agent

The instrumentation approach in OpenTelemetry's Java Agent comes with some limitations with respect to maintenance and testability. Elastic contributes an invokedynamic-based instrumentation approach that helps overcoming these limitations.

Alexander Wert

Jack Shirazi

Jonas Kunz

Sylvain Juge

How to capture custom metrics without app code changes using the Java Agent Plugin
OpenTelemetryJavaAPM

How to capture custom metrics without app code changes using the Java Agent Plugin

When the application you're monitoring doesn't emit the custom metrics you'd like, and you can't directly change the app code, you can use a Java Agent Plugin to automatically instrument the application and emit the custom metrics you desire.

Jack Shirazi