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Elastic APM–Use .NET OpenTelemetry

Elastic has their own Application Performance Monitoring solution as part of their Elastic Observability product.

An important part of the solution are ‘agents’. Agent are responsible for instrumenting your application, collecting all the metrics and sending it to the APM server.

Specifically for .NET the APM agent is released as a serie of NuGet packages.

With the release of OpenTelemetry for .NET I was wondering if we could replace this Elastic APM specific solution with standard OpenTelemetry.

In a first incarnation APM server didn’t support the OpenTelemetry standard and you had to use a seperate collector that converts the OpenTelemetry data to the Elastic APM format:

Since version 7.13 of Elastic APM this is no longer necessary.The OpenTelemetry Collector exporter for Elastic was deprecated and replaced by the native support of the OpenTelemetry Line Protocol in Elastic Observability (OTLP).

Now the only thing you need to do is to add some specific attributes and configure the OltpExporter:

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