Elastic OpenTelemetry

Elastic OpenTelemetry is an open-source ecosystem of OpenTelemetry distributions tailored to Elastic. They include a customized OpenTelemetry Collector and several OpenTelemetry Language SDKs.

Each Elastic OpenTelemetry distribution is assembled with selected OpenTelemetry components and tested to ensure production readiness. This gives you a reliable, optimized OpenTelemetry experience backed by Elastic support.

OpenTelemetry is a vendor-neutral observability framework for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data. If you are new to OpenTelemetry, refer to OpenTelemetry concepts and components. Refer to Elastic OpenTelemetry compared to upstream OpenTelemetry for more information on how Elastic OpenTelemetry differs from upstream OpenTelemetry components.

The following Elastic OpenTelemetry distributions are available:

Each Elastic OpenTelemetry distribution undergoes production-grade testing before being declared Generally Available (GA). Elastic provides full support for GA releases in accordance with our support matrix and SLAs.

Technical Preview distributions receive best-effort support and are not covered under standard SLAs.

Pick the right Quickstart guide for your environment or select an observability use case:

• Monitoring on Kubernetes
• LLM Observability

A demo environment that showcases Elastic OpenTelemetry capabilities is available in the opentelemetry-demo repository.

The Elastic OpenTelemetry demo includes:

• Sample applications instrumented with OpenTelemetry SDKs.
• Elastic Agent configured for various scenarios. For example, Kubernetes and hosts.
• Integration with an Elastic Stack deployment, such as Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Follow the instructions in the demo repository to set up and run the demo.

To report an issue or provide feedback on Elastic OpenTelemetry, submit a GitHub issue.