At KubeCon Europe, Elastic announced that its open-source project, Elastic Common Schema (ECS), will be contributed to OpenTelemetry (OTel) under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to work towards a unified schema for observability and security data. This convergence aims to standardize data formats across security and observability platforms, enhancing data analysis, visualization, and correlation. By integrating ECS with OTel's Semantic Conventions, the initiative seeks to reduce vendor lock-in, streamline data transformations, and improve root cause analysis and operational visibility. Elastic ensures users that their investments in ECS will be preserved, offering guidance and tools for migration to the new schema. OpenTelemetry, a significant project in the CNCF ecosystem, benefits from ECS’s mature schema, particularly in structuring logs and security events, thus enhancing its utility for security use cases. Elastic continues to support OTel natively, allowing seamless integration into its APM capabilities, with no changes to ECS's Apache 2.0 licensing.