Elastic Observability Labs
17 June 2026
From alert to root cause in seconds: AI-powered observability with Elastic Agent Builder and Workflows
Elastic Agent Builder and Workflows replace dashboard hunting: one question surfaces the root cause, correlates metrics across weeks, and calculates business impact; then the workflow files the ticket.
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Don't leave metrics on the table: query them with the ES|QL TS command
Recalibrate your mental model for time series queries: learn why FROM can produce inaccurate results for metrics, how TS fixes that, and when to use each command.
Bringing Fire to Elasticsearch: Adding Native Prometheus API Support
Query Elasticsearch directly from Prometheus-compatible clients via native PromQL, discovery, and metadata endpoints. Send data to Elasticsearch with Prometheus Remote Write.
From averages to any percentile: Elasticsearch ships native exponential histogram support in ES|QL
Query any percentile at any time. Elasticsearch natively stores OTel exponential histograms and lets you analyze distributions in ES|QL without fixed buckets or lossy conversions.
ES|QL queries for debugging LLM latency, cost and GPU saturation
Learn how to investigate LLM latency, token cost and GPU saturation using ES|QL against OpenTelemetry traces and get a root cause, not just a symptom.
30x faster than Prometheus: how we rebuilt Elasticsearch as a leading columnar metrics datastore
Elasticsearch now stores OTel metrics at 3.75 bytes per data point and queries them up to 30x faster than Prometheus. Here's how we rebuilt TSDS and ES|QL.
How Elastic's ML and AI Assistant cut 802.1x triage from 20 minutes to seconds in the NOC
Find out how Network Operations Center (NOC) teams use Elasticsearch, ML, and the Elastic AI Assistant to cut MTTR, tame alert fatigue, and solve network issues fast.
How to trace MCP server tool calls with OpenTelemetry and Elastic APM
Add OpenTelemetry tracing to an MCP server, visualize tool call performance in Elastic APM, and query the trace data from Claude Desktop using the Agent Builder MCP.
Piping Hot: Bringing ES|QL to Your Grafana Dashboards Using the Elasticsearch Plugin
You can now write ES|QL queries in Grafana with the Elasticsearch plugin. Learn how to enable it and write pipe-based queries directly in the Grafana UI.
Kubernetes observability: MCP specialist agents for safer EKS triage
Scope a specialist EKS MCP agent for cluster checks while the Elastic AI Agent triages; fix a service misconfiguration using the specialist agent in a few prompts.
Migrate Logstash Pipelines from Azure Event Hubs to OTel Collector Kafka Receiver
Step-by-step guide to migrating Logstash pipelines from the Azure Event Hubs plugin to the OpenTelemetry Collector Kafka receiver.
Investigate Kubernetes infrastructure issues with PromQL in Elasticsearch & Kibana
Walkthrough of a Kubernetes fleet-wide CPU investigation in Elastic Observability, from cluster to namespace to the noisy pod, using PromQL in Elasticsearch and Kibana.
TLS certificate monitoring with Elastic Workflows, Synthetics, and Osquery: Eliminate manual renewals
Automate TLS certificate monitoring with Elastic Workflows, Synthetics, and Osquery. Detect expiring certificates, rotate, and verify without human intervention.