Quickstart guides
Elastic Stack Serverless Observability
Learn how to set up the Elastic Distributions for OpenTelemetry (EDOT) to monitor Kubernetes, applications, and hosts.
You can quickly add data from hosts, Kubernetes, applications, and cloud services from the Observability UI.
- Open Elastic Observability.
- Go to Add data.
- Select what you want to monitor.
- Follow the instructions.
The guides cover how to install the EDOT Collector, turn on auto-instrumentation, and configure data collection for metrics, logs, and traces in Elastic Observability.
Select a guide based on the environment of your target system and your Elastic deployment model.
| Deployment Model | Kubernetes | Docker | Hosts or VMs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-managed Elastic Stack | Kubernetes on self-managed | Docker on self-managed | Hosts or VMs on self-managed |
| Elastic Cloud Serverless | Kubernetes on serverless | Docker on serverless | Hosts or VMs on serverless |
| Elastic Cloud Hosted | Kubernetes on hosted | Docker on hosted | Hosts or VMs on hosted |