Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry

Elastic Stack Serverless Observability

Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) is an open-source ecosystem of OpenTelemetry distributions tailored to Elastic. They include a customized OpenTelemetry Collector and several OpenTelemetry Language SDKs.

Each EDOT distribution is assembled with selected OpenTelemetry components and tested to ensure production readiness. This provides a reliable and optimized OpenTelemetry experience, enabling seamless adoption with confidence and expert support.

OpenTelemetry is a vendor-neutral observability framework for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data. If you are new to OpenTelemetry, refer to OpenTelemetry concepts and components.

The following Elastic OpenTelemetry distributions are available:

• EDOT Collector
• EDOT .NET
• EDOT Java
• EDOT Node.js
• EDOT PHP
• EDOT Python
• EDOT Android
• EDOT iOS

Each EDOT distribution undergoes production-grade testing before being declared Generally Available (GA). Elastic provides full support for GA releases in accordance with our support matrix and SLAs.

Technical Preview distributions receive best-effort support and are not covered under standard SLAs.

Pick the right Quickstart guide for your environment or select an observability use case:

• Monitoring on Kubernetes
• LLM Observability

A demo environment that showcases EDOT capabilities is available in the opentelemetry-demo repository.

The EDOT demo includes:

• Sample applications instrumented with OpenTelemetry SDKs.
• EDOT Collector configured for various scenarios. For example, Kubernetes and hosts.
• Integration with an Elastic Stack deployment, such as Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Follow the instructions in the demo repository to set up and run the demo.

To report an issue or provide feedback on EDOT, submit a GitHub issue.