Elastic features available with Elastic OpenTelemetry
Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.
Serverless Observability
Generally available
Stack
Generally available
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 |
| User-defined Elasticsearch ingest pipelines2 The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability Generally available since 9.2 This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes. Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability Generally available This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments. | Compatible | 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 The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability Preview since 9.1 This functionality is in technical preview and is ready for evaluation. Use with caution in production; it is not recommended for mission-critical workloads. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Specific Support terms apply. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes. Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability Unavailable This functionality is not available in Elastic Cloud Serverless. | 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.