Elastic Observability 7.16 introduces enhanced features for data exploration and CI/CD pipeline visibility, emphasizing ad hoc analytics and seamless data integration across complex systems. This release includes curated data exploration views, prebuilt Elastic Agent integrations, and a native integration with AWS FireLens, allowing users to conduct in-depth investigations and improve data ingestion from cloud-native environments. It also enhances CI/CD visibility with new OpenTelemetry integrations for Ansible and Maven, offering deep insights into build automation and deployment processes, while maintaining comprehensive pipeline monitoring. Additionally, the release promotes a unified observability approach with one-click integrations across various infrastructures and introduces collaboration enhancements through ServiceNow integration. New features such as OpenTelemetry span events, transaction failure correlation, and auto-instrumentation for .NET enhance application performance monitoring, while compressed spans optimize network transfer and storage costs. Elastic Cloud users can access these features directly, with trial and training resources available for new users.