Elastic Announces 100% OpenTelemetry Experience for Kubernetes with the OTel Operator

Business Wire 12-Nov-2024 4:00 PM

With Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry, SREs can now streamline collector deployment, application auto-instrumentation and lifecycle management without data translation

Elastic (NYSE:ESTC), the Search AI Company, announced Kubernetes observability support in the Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) portfolio, using OpenTelemetry Operator. SREs can now access out-of-the-box configurations designed to streamline collector deployment, application auto-instrumentation and lifecycle management with Elastic Observability, providing complete visibility for Kubernetes environments.

"As a 100% OpenTelemetry-native solution, Elastic Observability removes the need for SREs to manage tedious schema conversions, enabling instant, real-time visibility across K8s clusters through application metrics, logs and traces," said Ken Exner, chief product officer at Elastic. "With out-of-the-box OTel-based Kubernetes observability, SREs gain critical insights into all the entities such as containers, hosts and services without the burden of managing their infrastructure."

Elastic's unified OTel experience, with OTel operator, is now available in tech preview. Read the Elastic blog to learn more.

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