Octopus and Elastic with OpenTelemetry

Matthew Casperson's guide outlines the process of configuring Octopus to export audit logs to an Elastic stack using OpenTelemetry and the Elastic Distributions for OpenTelemetry Collector (EDOT Collector). The setup involves installing an Elastic stack consisting of Elasticsearch and Kibana locally via Docker Compose, followed by creating configuration files to support the EDOT Collector. To expose the local OpenTelemetry endpoint publicly, ngrok is used, allowing Octopus to send audit logs through the OpenTelemetry protocol. This configuration enables enhanced analysis and visualization of audit logs, offering improved monitoring and security auditing capabilities for Octopus deployments.