Scalable visibility with OpenTelemetry
As a long-time proponent of open standards, Elastic is committed to advancing the adoption of OpenTelemetry across the industry through active contribution and collaboration.
Future-proof your observability platform with OpenTelemetry and Elastic
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Consolidate all of your telemetry data into Elastic's open and extensible Search AI Platform. Whether you are instrumenting applications or collecting infrastructure telemetry with OTel, everything is sent into Elasticsearch with OTel semantics untouched.
Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry
Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) provides SREs and developers with a stable OTel ecosystem. Elastic’s OTel-first approach preserves the OpenTelemetry-native schematic conventions with rich context for enhanced correlation and analysis — no schema conversions needed. EDOT additionally includes fixes beyond OTel release cycles and enterprise-grade support without proprietary add-ons.
Get started with EDOT
EDOT can easily be set up to monitor everything from Kubernetes to applications and hosts. Simply install the EDOT Collector, enable auto-instrumentation with the language SDKs, and configure data collection for metrics, logs, and traces in Elastic Observability. OTel data can be used in its original specification to power Elastic dashboards, analytics, alerts, and other functionality. With the rich context supplied by resource attributes, you can effortlessly correlate any data type using ES|QL, Elastic's powerful and flexible query language.
Top contributor to OpenTelemetry
As a leading contributor to OpenTelemetry, Elastic is advancing the adoption of OTel as a foundation for seamless observability and interoperability. To this end, Elastic has not only contributed significant amounts of code to OTel across languages and SDKs, but we have also contributed the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) to OTel Semantic Conventions, as well as our Universal Profiling agent. Elastic is committed to remaining a top contributor and partner to OTel in standardizing telemetry and ingest across the industry.
Built for open technologies
Leaning into its open source roots, Elastic supports a growing list of the most popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, from Kubernetes to OpenTelemetry, Istio, Prometheus, and more. Eliminate churn and tool sprawl by standardizing technology and data with a consistent set of integrations, libraries, and schemas to build, deploy, and observe an application. By achieving better control of your tooling, you can instead focus your efforts on operational efficiencies, business performance, and scale.
One platform for all your observability needs
Get all the benefits of an enterprise-grade observability solution by enabling organizations to directly send data collected by OpenTelemetry instrumentation to Elastic deployments.
