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Elastic Observability

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What is Elastic Observability?
What’s new in 8.14
Get started
- 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
- OpenTelemetry integration
- 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
- 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
- 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 external connectors
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

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

What do you want to observe?

Monitor your application performance

Learn how to collect and visualize Application Performance Monitoring (APM) data with the Elastic Stack.

Read the docs

Monitor your application logs

Correlate your application logs and traces for increased visibility into your services.

Read the docs

Integrate with OpenTelemetry

Reuse your existing OTel instrumentation to easily send observability data to the Elastic Stack.

Go to the APM guide -->

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.

What is Elastic Observability? »