We are pleased to announce the availability of the Elastic OpenTelemetry integration — available on Elastic Cloud, or when you download Elastic APM. This integration continues our to openness by embracing open standards support for the evolving OpenTelemetry standard for observability

What does efficient hybrid cloud monitoring look like? Before we dig deep into the best practices, you need to understand the basics.

Over the recent years, APM solutions have been undergoing an evolution - implementing AI/ML, digital experience monitoring and adapting to support modern microservices and cloud-native applications. Along with the new challenges that modern applications bring about, end-user expectations also continue to grow, making it more important than ever for APM tools to enable IT to quickly detect and resolve issues.

Monitoring your Azure cloud computing environment requires an understanding of each component of your Azure infrastructure and how they all interact. Cloud computing with Azure offers each of the three main advantages of cloud service providers: infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Combined, these three services provide a comprehensive cloud-based computing setup for any business.

Monitoring your Java applications is an essential part of ensuring high availability and good performance. And yet, many Java developers hold off on practicing application performance management (APM) until they’ve already deployed their application to a test environment, or even to production. Perhaps they don’t have access to an APM solution with the right insights, or maybe they don’t have the time or resources to deploy to a temporary environment and wait for metrics to come in.