Context Our Elastic journey has been interesting and filled with trial and error. Around every corner we discover a different (and often better) way of doing the same thing, but it usually means redoing large parts of our setup. We’re getting a bit tired of rebuilding everything, so I’m hoping to ge…

Hi Christoffer, thank you for sharing your observability journey and the questions you have. When using the EDOT Java agent or OTel vanilla you should ingest the data through an EDOT/OTel collector and/or Elastic Cloud Managed OTLP endpoint ( reference architecture ). The details depend on your envi…

Thank you very much for the detailed answer. We are running an on‑prem installation of Elasticsearch and Kibana. I believe most of our software is version 9.1.5. We are currently working on upgrading past 9.2+ as I believe the EDOT collector will be part of the 9.2+ Fleet Agents by default. Though …

I will try to cover your questions in one reply. You didn’t explicitly mention the EDOT Collector, which made me wonder You are right. I did not mention the EDOT Collector explicitly only because I had the impression you are favouring the OTel contrib collector. The benefit of EDOT is that it con…

Again, thank you for your detailed response. To summarize my current understanding, if we want to use standard OpenTelemetry tooling with Elasticsearch and Kibana Observability (assuming the frameworks and tooling follow OpenTelemetry semantic conventions): For on‑prem deployments, it is recomme…

Elastic Observability vs OpenTelemetry: Are We Finally on the "Right" Path?

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willemdh (WillemDH) April 14, 2026, 5:50pm 3

We have similar concerns. Thanks for this post.

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Elastic Observability vs OpenTelemetry: Are We Finally on the "Right" Path?

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