Elastic observability for C++ Applications

Elastic Observability APM
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Dear All,

I need a observability solution for a mid size enterprise for distributed tracing.
I have a pipeline to ingest logs i.e. service -> kafka -> process by pyspark -> ES
I do not want to use elastic agent(because we use C++) instead create custom logs by individual services to match elastic schema and feed to ES. Can I use elastic apm seamlessly by using above method. Can I do tracing visualisation of spans etc? Would this be a good idea. The solution needs to be scalable. Please suggest if this can be done any other way.

Thank you

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Have you considered the OTEL C++ SDK

You can use this OTEL C++ OLTP > Elastic APM Server > Elasticsearch

Or

OTEL C++ OLTP > OTEL Collector > Elastic APM Server > Elasticsearch

and it should work.

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Yes explored Otel but right now its difficult for us to integrate in our workflow. Hence custom logging.

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The APM data model and our code is open. So yes if you ship the correct shape / schema data To the APM server it should work.

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