Elastic Observability 8.6 introduces enhanced features for improving production operations, including host observability for cloud resources like EC2, GCP, and Azure, as well as application dependency operations views that provide insights into databases, caches, and storage. The release features a new Opsgenie connector, enabling seamless integration for alert management and incident response. Users can optimize cloud spending and application performance through these new capabilities, which include interactive latency distribution graphs and trace waterfalls for detailed analysis of application dependencies. Available on Elastic Cloud, the platform is designed to guide site reliability engineers directly to problem areas, ensuring efficient incident response and improved user experience.