Kubernetes observability 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. 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
Generally available
Elastic Agent
Generally available
The quickstart guides for Kubernetes install a set of different Elastic Agents and EDOT SDKs to cover collection of OpenTelemetry data for infrastructure monitoring, logs collection and application monitoring.
The Kubernetes setup relies on the OpenTelemetry Operator, configured to automate orchestration of Elastic OpenTelemetry as follows:
- Elastic Agent Cluster: Collection of cluster metrics.
- Elastic Agent Daemon: Collection of node metrics, logs, and application telemetry.
- Elastic Agent Gateway: Preprocessing, aggregation, and ingestion of data into Elastic.
- EDOT SDKs: Annotated applications are auto-instrumented with EDOT SDKs.
The following diagram summarizes the previous components and how they interact with Elastic:
Read on to learn how to:
- Install the OpenTelemetry Operator using the kube-stack Helm chart.
- Use the Elastic Agents to send Kubernetes logs, metrics, and application traces to an Elasticsearch cluster.
- Use the operator for applications auto-instrumentation in all supported languages.