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New to Elastic {{observability}}? Discover more about our observability features and how to get started.
Learn about key features available to help you get value from your observability data:
- What is Elastic {{observability}}?
- What’s new in Elastic Stack
- {{obs-serverless}} billing dimensions
Learn how to spin up a deployment on {{ech}} or create an Observability Serverless project and use Elastic Observability to gain deeper insight into the behavior of your applications and systems.
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- Choose your source. Elastic integrates with hundreds of data sources for unified visibility across all your applications and systems.
- Ingest your data. Turn-key integrations provide a repeatable workflow to ingest data from all your sources: you install an integration, configure it, and deploy an agent to collect your data.
- View your data. Navigate seamlessly between Observabilty UIs and dashboards to identify and resolve problems quickly.
- Customize. Expand your deployment and add features like alerting and anomaly detection.
To get started with on serverless, create an Observability project, then follow one of our quickstarts to learn how to ingest and visualize your observability data.
Our quickstarts dramatically reduce your time-to-value by offering a fast path to ingest and visualize your Observability data. Each quickstart provides:
- A highly opinionated, fast path to data ingestion
- Sensible configuration defaults with minimal configuration required
- Auto-detection of logs and metrics for monitoring hosts
- Quick access to related dashboards and visualizations
Follow the steps in these guides to get started quickly:
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with {{agent}}
- Quickstart: Monitor your Kubernetes cluster with {{agent}}
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with OpenTelemetry
- Quickstart: Unified Kubernetes Observability with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT)
- Quickstart: Collect data with AWS Firehose
Want to use {{fleet}} or some other feature not covered in the quickstarts? Follow the steps in these guides to get started:
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- Get started with system metrics
- Get started with application traces and APM
- Get started with synthetic monitoring
- Get started with Universal Profiling
Ready to dig into more features of Elastic Observability? See these guides:
- Starting with the {{es}} Platform and its Solutions for new users
- Adding data to {{es}} for other ways to ingest data