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Elastic features available with Elastic OpenTelemetry

The following table shows Elastic features and their level of support and compatibility with Elastic OpenTelemetry. Refer to the SDKs Overview for SDK-specific features.

Feature Compatibility Support level
APM Compatible Supported
Service Maps Compatible Supported
Distributed Tracing Compatible Supported
Head-based Sampling (HBS) Compatible Supported
Tail-based Sampling (TBS) Compatible4 Not supported
Self-managed, OTel Collector-based TBS Compatible4 Not supported
TBS managed / hosted in Elastic Cloud Incompatible Not supported
Runtime metrics See language-specific overview -
Infrastructure Monitoring Compatible Supported
Host view1 Compatible Supported
Kubernetes dashboard Compatible Supported
Logs Collection Compatible Supported
OTel-native, Collector-based logs parsing & processing Compatible Supported
OTel-native, Collector-based data routing Compatible Supported
Managed, centralized processing2 Incompatible Not supported
Metrics Collection3 Compatible Supported
Automatic metrics mapping Compatible Supported
Usage of Time Series Data Streams Compatible Supported
Central Management Incompatible Not supported
Central management of OTel collectors Incompatible Not supported
Central management of OTel SDKs Compatible Supported

1 Refer to limitations on host metrics

2 Refer to limitations on Ingest Pipelines

3 Refer to limitations on metrics ingestion

4 While ingesting traces that have been sampled using TBS is technically possible, there are important limitations to consider. Refer to Tail-based sampling (TBS) limitations for more information.