Elastic has announced its contribution of the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) to OpenTelemetry (OTel) to promote the adoption of OTel-based observability and security. This initiative aims to standardize data from varied sources, facilitating improved analysis, visualization, and correlation across observability and security solutions, thereby expediting root cause analysis. By integrating ECS with OTel, Elastic intends to establish a mature common schema for metrics, logs, traces, and security events, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing data management costs. The collaboration will also support vendor-neutral semantic conventions and extend OTel's capabilities to include infrastructure support for Kubernetes application logs and other data types. This partnership reflects Elastic's commitment to open standards and its ongoing involvement with CNCF projects, aiming to establish OTel as a standard in the industry, which will benefit both the Elastic and broader OTel communities.