Elastic contributes to OpenTelemetry platform

Security and observability platform provider Elastic has contributed its Elastic Common Schema to OpenTelemetry (OTel) in a bid to accelerate adoption of the open platform.

The move aligns with Elastic’s commitment to develop a common schema for metrics, logs traces and security events based on the platforms.

The open source Elastic Common Schema specification was developed with support from the Elastic user community to define a common set of fields to be used when storing event data in the Elasticsearch platform. This aligns with OTel’s Semantic Conventions, which specify common names for various kinds of operations and data.

The schema has been designed to help reduce management and storage costs stemming from data duplication, improving operational efficiency.

Elastic has announced it hopes the contribution of the schema to OTel will lead to a more standardised and unified structured format for vendor-generated logs along with open source logs.

Users are also expected to benefit from turnkey log integrations that can be recognised by OTel compatible observability products and services, while moving to a standardised observability telemetry definition for applications and infrastructure is expected to enable vendor neutrality for observability products.

Finally, authors of OTel collector log receivers will be able to provide richer data definitions in their messages to support the entire ecosystem.

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