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title: OpenTelemetry Profiling Integration for Elastic
description: The OpenTelemetry Profiling integration collects continuous profiling data using eBPF on Linux systems. It provides insights into CPU usage without requiring...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/integration-docs/tree/main/reference/profiling_otel
products:
  - Elastic integrations
applies_to:
  - Serverless Observability projects: Preview
  - Serverless Security projects: Preview
  - Elastic Stack: Preview since 9.4
---

# OpenTelemetry Profiling Integration for Elastic
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| **Version**                                                                                                                   | 0.0.1 <applies-to>: Preview</applies-to> ([View all](#changelog)) |
| **Subscription level**[What's this?](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions)                                                    | Basic                                                             |
| **Developed by**[What's this?](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/integration-docs/tree/main/reference/developed-by) | Elastic                                                           |
| **Minimum Kibana version(s)**                                                                                                 | 9.4.0                                                             |

<admonition title="The OpenTelemetry Profiling integration v0.0.1 is in technical preview">
  To use pre-release integrations, go to the **Integrations** page in Kibana, scroll down, and toggle on the _Display beta integrations_ option.
</admonition>


## Overview

The OpenTelemetry Profiling integration collects continuous profiling data using eBPF on Linux systems. It provides insights into CPU usage without requiring code instrumentation or application restarts. This integration facilitates the OpenTelemetry eBPF profiling receiver and enables deep visibility into your applications runtime characteristics.

### Compatibility

This integration is supported on Linux systems with amd64 or arm64 architecture. It requires a minimum kernel version of 5.10 with eBPF support enabled. The host must have appropriate capabilities.

## Prerequisites

Before installing this integration, ensure:
- **Linux kernel 5.10 or later** with eBPF support enabled
- **Appropriate permissions**
- **Elastic Agent 9.4.0 or later** with OpenTelemetry support
- **amd64 or arm64 architecture**


## What data does this integration collect?

The OpenTelemetry Profiling integration collects the following profiling data:
- **CPU profiling**: Stack traces of CPU-bound functions with sampling frequency control


### Supported use cases

- **Performance optimization**: Identify performance bottlenecks and hotspots in your applications
- **Resource monitoring**: Track CPU and memory usage across your infrastructure
- **Continuous observability**: Maintain always-on profiling for production environments with minimal overhead
- **Root cause analysis**: Understand application behavior during incidents and errors
- **Capacity planning**: Analyze resource consumption trends over time


## Changelog

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  | Version   | Details                                                                                                           | Minimum Kibana version |
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  | **0.0.1** | **Enhancement** ([View pull request](https://github.com/elastic/integrations/pull/1))Initial draft of the package | 9.4.0                  |
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