Elastic Observability, Logging & Alerting

What We Offer

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Monitor your applications in real-time with Elastic APM to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize user experience:

• APM agent installation and configuration for multiple languages (Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP)
• Distributed tracing setup for microservices architectures
• Transaction performance analysis and optimization
• Error tracking and exception monitoring
• Service map visualization and dependency analysis
• Custom metrics and business transaction tracking
• APM data retention and lifecycle management

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Understand how real users experience your web applications with Elastic RUM:

• RUM agent integration for JavaScript applications
• Page load performance monitoring
• User journey tracking and analysis
• Core Web Vitals monitoring (LCP, FID, CLS)
• Geographic performance analysis
• Browser and device performance insights
• Error tracking and user impact analysis

Centralized Logging & Log Analysis

Aggregate, parse, and analyze logs from all your systems in one place:

• Logstash pipeline design and optimization
• Beats integration (Filebeat, Metricbeat, Heartbeat, etc.)
• Log parsing and field extraction
• Log aggregation from containers and Kubernetes
• Structured logging best practices
• Log retention and lifecycle policies
• Security event logging and analysis
• Compliance logging requirements
• Log analysis patterns and anomaly detection
• Correlation across multiple log sources
• Real-time log streaming and search
• Log-based security monitoring (SIEM integration)

Infrastructure & System Metrics

Monitor your infrastructure health and performance:

• Metricbeat configuration for system metrics
• Cloud provider metrics integration (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Container and Kubernetes metrics
• Database performance metrics
• Network monitoring and analysis
• Custom metrics collection and visualization
• Prometheus metrics integration
• Time series data optimization

Filebeat & Log Collection

Efficient log collection with Filebeat from diverse sources:

• Filebeat installation and configuration
• Log file monitoring and tailing
• Docker and container log collection
• Kubernetes log collection with Filebeat DaemonSet
• Syslog and network log collection
• Filebeat modules (Apache, Nginx, MySQL, etc.)
• Multiline log handling and parsing
• Filebeat output configuration (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kafka)
• Filebeat performance tuning and resource optimization
• Centralized Filebeat management with Fleet

Metricbeat & Metrics Collection

Comprehensive metrics collection with Metricbeat:

• Metricbeat installation and module configuration
• System metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network)
• Application metrics collection
• Cloud metrics (AWS, Azure, GCP modules)
• Kubernetes and container metrics
• Database metrics (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.)
• Message queue metrics (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• Web server metrics (Apache, Nginx, etc.)
• Custom metric collection and aggregation
• Metricbeat performance and resource management

Fluent Bit Integration

Integrate Fluent Bit for lightweight, high-performance log processing:

• Fluent Bit installation and configuration
• Input plugins for log collection
• Filter plugins for log parsing and transformation
• Output plugins for Elasticsearch integration
• Kubernetes Fluent Bit DaemonSet deployment
• Docker log driver configuration
• Performance optimization and resource usage
• Fluent Bit vs Logstash comparison and selection
• Multi-output configurations

OpenTelemetry (OTEL) Integration

Integrate OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral observability:

• OpenTelemetry Collector setup and configuration
• OTEL trace and metric collection
• Elasticsearch OTEL exporter configuration
• OTEL instrumentation for applications
• OTEL to Elastic APM integration
• Multi-vendor observability data correlation
• OTEL data transformation and enrichment
• OTEL Collector deployment patterns

Elastic Fleet & Agent Management

Centralized management of Beats and Elastic Agents with Fleet:

• Fleet Server setup and configuration
• Elastic Agent installation and enrollment
• Policy management and agent configuration
• Centralized agent updates and versioning
• Agent monitoring and health checks
• Integration packages and custom integrations
• Multi-tenant Fleet configurations
• Agent security and access control
• Fleet API automation and CI/CD integration

Intelligent Alerting & Notifications

Set up proactive alerting to catch issues before they impact users:

• Watcher and Alerting rule design
• Threshold-based and anomaly detection alerts
• Multi-channel alerting (email, Slack, PagerDuty, webhooks, Microsoft Teams)
• Alert fatigue reduction strategies
• Alert correlation and grouping
• Runbook integration and automated responses
• On-call rotation and escalation policies
• Condition-based alerting (query, threshold, anomaly, ML)
• Alert action templates and customization
• Alert testing and validation
• Alert history and audit trails
• Integration with external incident management systems

Dashboards & Visualization

Create actionable dashboards and visualizations:

• Kibana dashboard design and development
• Custom visualizations and Lens charts
• Executive and operational dashboards
• Real-time monitoring views
• Historical trend analysis
• Dashboard sharing and access control
• APM dashboards and service maps
• Infrastructure monitoring dashboards
• Log analysis dashboards and saved searches
• Custom visualization plugins
• Dashboard embedding and iframe integration
• Dashboard performance optimization
• Time-based and dynamic dashboard filters

Observability Stack Architecture

Design and implement scalable observability infrastructure:

• Elasticsearch cluster sizing for observability workloads
• Hot-warm-cold architecture for log retention
• Index lifecycle management (ILM) for observability data
• Data tiering and cost optimization
• High availability and disaster recovery
• Multi-cluster setups for global deployments