Elastic is expanding its support for OpenTelemetry by introducing Elastic distributions of OpenTelemetry SDKs for various programming languages. OpenTelemetry is an open-source, vendor-neutral framework for application instrumentation and observability, facilitating the collection of telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs. Elastic has been actively contributing to the OpenTelemetry community, including donating the Elastic Common Schema and a profiling agent based on eBPF. The Elastic distributions aim to enhance the OpenTelemetry SDKs with additional features while maintaining compatibility with Elastic's Observability backend. These distributions provide vendor-neutral instrumentation and allow for seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data, enabling application developers to instrument their code without relying on vendor-specific solutions. By focusing on OpenTelemetry, Elastic intends to shift towards a more standardized observability framework, ultimately benefiting from greater flexibility and improved instrumentation options. The company is releasing its distributions, currently in alpha for .NET and Java, and encourages feedback to refine and improve these offerings.