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Quickstart on Elastic Cloud Serverless

Elastic Stack Serverless Observability

The managed OTLP Endpoint simplifies OpenTelemetry data ingestion. It provides an endpoint for OpenTelemetry SDKs and Collectors to send telemetry data, with Elastic handling scaling, data processing, and storage. The Managed OTLP Endpoint is exclusively for Elastic Cloud users, initially available in Elastic Cloud Serverless only.

The managed OTLP Endpoint is designed for the following use cases:

  • Logs and Infrastructure Monitoring: Logs forwarded in OTLP format and host and Kubernetes metrics in OTLP format.
  • APM: Application telemetry in OTLP format.
  • An Elastic Observability Serverless project.
  • An Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry or any system that can forward logs, metrics, or traces in OTLP format.

You also need to retrieve your OTLP endpoint address and an API key. Follow these steps to retrieve the managed OTLP endpoint URL for your Serverless project:

  1. In Elastic Cloud, open your Observability project.
  2. Go to Add data, Application, OpenTelemetry.
  3. Select Managed OTLP Endpoint in the second step.
  4. Copy the OTLP endpoint configuration value.
  5. Select Create API Key to generate an API key.
Warning

The previous instructions use a managed OTLP endpoint on Elastic Cloud Serverless. This feature is in Technical Preview and shouldn't be used in production.

Select the quickstart guide for your environment from the following list:

The Elastic Cloud Managed OTLP Endpoint ensures that OpenTelemetry data is stored without any schema translation, preserving both OpenTelemetry semantic conventions and resource attributes. It supports ingesting OTLP logs, metrics, and traces in a unified manner, ensuring consistent treatment across all telemetry data.

Help improve the Elastic Cloud Managed OTLP Endpoint by sending us feedback in our discussion forum or community Slack.

For EDOT collector feedback, open an issue in the elastic-agent repository.

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