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Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) Now GA: Open-Source, Production-Ready OTel
OpenTelemetryAPMInstrumentation

Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) Now GA: Open-Source, Production-Ready OTel

Elastic is proud to introduce General Availability of Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT), which contains Elastic’s versions of the OpenTelemetry Collector and several language SDKs like Python, Java, .NET, and NodeJS. These help provide enhanced features and enterprise-grade support for EDOT.

Miguel Luna

Bahubali Shetti

End to end LLM observability with Elastic: seeing into the opaque world of generative AI applications
Azure OpenAIOpenAIOpenTelemetryGenAILLM Observability

End to end LLM observability with Elastic: seeing into the opaque world of generative AI applications

Elastic’s LLM Observability delivers end-to-end visibility into the performance, reliability, cost, and compliance of LLMs across Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, and OpenAI, - empowering SREs to optimize and troubleshoot AI-powered applications.

Daniela Tzvetkova

Bahubali Shetti

Dynamic workload discovery on Kubernetes now supported with EDOT Collector
OpenTelemetryLog AnalyticsKubernetesMetrics

Dynamic workload discovery on Kubernetes now supported with EDOT Collector

Discover how Elastic's OpenTelemetry Collector leverages Kubernetes pod annotations providing dynamic workload discovery and improves automated metric and log collection for Kubernetes clusters.

Christos Markou

Alexander Wert

Process data from Elastic integrations with the integration filter plugin in Logstash

Process data from Elastic integrations with the integration filter plugin in Logstash

Offload data processing operations outside of your Elastic deployment and onto Logstash by using the integration filter plugin.

Rossall Sandford

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
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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