Elastic and other security leaders working to make OTel Semantic Conventions a standard across Observability and Security data

Elastic has contributed the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) to the OpenTelemetry (OTel) project to standardize security and observability data within the OTel Semantic Conventions framework, which is gaining traction due to its vendor-agnostic nature. This initiative, embraced by various security vendors and partners, aims to simplify data querying, visualization, and analysis, thereby enhancing machine learning applications and reducing the complexity associated with analyzing software, performance, and security issues. The collaboration has received positive feedback from companies like Cribl, Mimecast, and Tines, who appreciate the increased flexibility, interoperability, and reduced integration challenges that these open standards offer. Open source conventions are seen as crucial for improving productivity and modernizing security operations, with the movement encouraging further community contributions and real-world testing to strengthen technology solutions.

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