Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) now GA, LLM observability

Elastic Observability 9.0/8.18 introduces several notable features, including the general availability of Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT), providing a stable ecosystem for OpenTelemetry with components like the EDOT Collector and language SDKs for various platforms. This release also includes LLM observability for GenAI applications, offering insights for managing large language models across platforms such as Azure OpenAI and Google Vertex AI, while enhancing safety and reliability through features like Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. Additionally, the update brings performance and security improvements to Logstash and Elastic Agent support for AWS EKS, along with a consolidation of log exploration capabilities into Kibana Discover, eliminating the need for the separate Logs Explorer and Logs Stream. Elastic Cloud users can access these features directly, with further details available in the release notes.