OpenTelemetry quickstarts
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. Elastic Agent can run in OpenTelemetry mode to retrieve traces, metrics, and logs from your infrastructure and applications, and forward them to Elastic Observability. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. 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
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Elastic Agent
Generally available
Learn how to set up Elastic OpenTelemetry to monitor Kubernetes, applications, and hosts.
You can quickly add data from hosts, Kubernetes, applications, and cloud services from the Observability UI.
- Open Elastic Observability.
- Go to Add data.
- Select what you want to monitor.
- Follow the instructions.
These guides cover how to install the Elastic Agent, turn on auto-instrumentation, and configure data collection for metrics, logs, and traces in Elastic Observability.
Select a guide based on the environment of your target system and your Elastic deployment model.
| Deployment Model | Kubernetes | Docker | Hosts or VMs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-managed Elastic Stack | Kubernetes on self-managed | Docker on self-managed | Hosts or VMs on self-managed |
| Elastic Cloud Serverless | Kubernetes on serverless | Docker on serverless | Hosts or VMs on serverless |
| Elastic Cloud Hosted | Kubernetes on hosted | Docker on hosted | Hosts or VMs on hosted |
| Multiple | Ingest custom metrics with Elastic OpenTelemetry | Ingest custom metrics with Elastic OpenTelemetry | Ingest custom metrics with Elastic OpenTelemetry |
Having issues with the Elastic Agent? Refer to the Troubleshooting common issues with the Elastic Agent guide for help.