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As Elastic continues its commitment to OpenTelemetry (OTel), we are excited to announce the Elastic distribution of the OTel Java Agent. In this blog post, we will explore the rationale behind our unique distribution, detailing the powerful additional features it brings to the table. We will provide an overview of how these enhancements can be utilized with our distribution, the standard OTel SDK, or the vanilla OTel Java agent.

This is the second in a series of blog posts about the disconnect between modern IT and security teams and the vendors they’re forced to work with. If you’re looking for the first and last posts, you can find it here. In the dynamic world of managing observability and telemetry data, pricing models for tools and platforms are showing their age, creating a significant disconnect between vendors and the IT and security teams they serve.

When sending data to Google Cloud, like logs, metrics, or traces, it can be beneficial to split the data up across multiple projects. This division may be necessary since each team has its own project, a central project is used for security audit logs, or for any other reason that your organization has. BindPlane has effective tools to manage this process. In this walkthrough, we will add fields to telemetry entries, allowing us to associate entries with a specific project and properly route them.

Managing an Elasticsearch cluster can be complex, costly, and time-consuming - especially for large organizations that need to index and analyze log data at scale. In this short guide, we’ll walk you through the process of creating an Amazon S3 bucket, configuring an IAM role that can write into that bucket, and attaching that IAM role to your Amazon S3 instance - all using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).