Instrumentation Articles

Introducing Elastic's distribution of OpenTelemetry PHP
OpenTelemetryAPMInstrumentation

Introducing Elastic's distribution of OpenTelemetry PHP

Announcing the first alpha release of the Elastic distribution of OpenTelemetry PHP. See how easy it is to instrument your PHP applications with OpenTelemetry in this blog post.

Pawel Filipczak

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

Observing Langchain applications with Elastic, OpenTelemetry, and Langtrace
OpenTelemetryAPMPythonInstrumentationAzure OpenAI

Observing Langchain applications with Elastic, OpenTelemetry, and Langtrace

Langchain applications are growing in use. The ability to build out RAG-based applications, simple AI Assistants, and more is becoming the norm. Observing these applications is even harder. Given the various options that are out there, this blog shows how to use OpenTelemetry instrumentation with Langtrace and ingest it into Elastic Observability APM

Bahubali Shetti

Karthik Kalyanaraman

Yemi Adejumobi

LLM Observability with Elastic, OpenLIT and OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetryAPMPythonInstrumentationAzure OpenAI

LLM Observability with Elastic, OpenLIT and OpenTelemetry

Langchain applications are growing in use. The ability to build out RAG-based applications, simple AI Assistants, and more is becoming the norm. Observing these applications is even harder. Given the various options that are out there, this blog shows how to use OpenTelemetry instrumentation with the OpenLIT instrumentation library to ingest traces into Elastic Observability APM.

Bahubali Shetti

Aman Agarwal

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

Introducing Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetryAPMInstrumentation

Introducing Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry

Elastic is proud to introduce 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.

Alexander Wert

Miguel Luna

Bahubali Shetti

Introducing Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector
OpenTelemetryAPMInstrumentation

Introducing Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector

We are thrilled to announce the technical preview of the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector. This new offering underscores Elastic dedication to this important framework and highlights our ongoing contributions to make OpenTelemetry the best vendor agnostic data collection framework.

Alexander Wert

Miguel Luna

Tracing Langchain apps with Elastic, OpenLLMetry, and OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetryAPMPythonInstrumentationAzure OpenAI

Tracing Langchain apps with Elastic, OpenLLMetry, and OpenTelemetry

Langchain applications are growing in use. The ability to build out RAG-based applications, simple AI Assistants, and more is becoming the norm. Observing these applications is even harder. Given the various options that are out there, this blog shows how to use OpenTelemetry instrumentation with OpenLLMetry and ingest it into Elastic Observability APM

Bahubali Shetti

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

Introducing Elastic Distribution for OpenTelemetry Python
OpenTelemetryAPMPythonInstrumentation

Introducing Elastic Distribution for OpenTelemetry Python

Announcing the first alpha release of the Elastic Distribution for OpenTelemetry Python. See how easy it is to instrument your Python applications with OpenTelemetry in this blog post.

Riccardo Magliocchetti

Elastic now providing distributions for OpenTelemetry SDKs
OpenTelemetryAPMInstrumentation

Elastic now providing distributions for OpenTelemetry SDKs

Adopting OpenTelemetry native standards for instrumenting and observing applications

Steve Gordon