Get started with Elastic Observability

New to Elastic Observability? Discover more about our observability features and how to get started.

Learn about Elastic Observability ¶

Learn about key features available to help you get value from your observability data:

Get started with your use case ¶

Learn how to spin up a deployment of our hosted Elasticsearch Service and use Elastic Observability to gain deeper insight into the behavior of your applications and systems.

get started
  1. Choose your source. Elastic integrates with hundreds of data sources for unified visibility across all your applications and systems.
  2. Ingest your data. Turn-key integrations provide a repeatable workflow to ingest data from all your sources: you install an integration, configure it, and deploy an agent to collect your data.
  3. View your data. Navigate seamlessly between Observabilty UIs and dashboards to identify and resolve problems quickly.
  4. Customize. Expand your deployment and add features like alerting and anomaly detection.

Quickstarts ¶

Our quickstarts dramatically reduce your time-to-value by offering a fast path to ingest and visualize your Observability data. Each quickstart provides:

  • A highly opinionated, fast path to data ingestion
  • Sensible configuration defaults with minimal configuration required
  • Auto-detection of logs and metrics for monitoring hosts
  • Quick access to related dashboards and visualizations

Follow the steps in these guides to get started quickly:

Get started with other features ¶

Want to use Fleet or some other feature not covered in the quickstarts? Follow the steps in these guides to get started:

Additional guides ¶

Ready to dig into more features of Elastic Observability? See these guides:

Related content ¶