Elastic Observability

Elastic Observability is Elastic's unified logs, metrics, traces and profiling solution, built on the Elastic Stack. Its published machine-readable contract is the Observability Intake API served by APM Server: a newline-delimited JSON event intake for Elastic APM agents, a central agent-configuration endpoint, and native OpenTelemetry Protocol ingest over both OTLP/HTTP and OTLP/gRPC. Analysis of the telemetry once it has landed happens through Kibana and, for agents, through the Elastic Agent Builder MCP server, which exposes sixteen observability.* tools over a deployment-scoped endpoint.

Elastic Observability publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Server Info API, agent config API, event intake API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include AIOps, Observability, APM, Logging, and Metrics.

The Elastic Observability catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Elastic Observability’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, changelog, CLI, sandbox, API reference, getting-started guide, and 35 more developer resources.

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63.3/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 4 Agent Skills

AIOps Observability APM Logging Metrics Tracing OpenTelemetry Monitoring Telemetry

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

SaaS Platform Operations Management

BC-4220

Agent Configevent intakeopentelemetry intake

POST /intake/v2/events POST /v1/traces GET /config/v1/agents GET /config/v1/rum/agents

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 63.3/100 · strong

Contract Quality 8.1 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 12.1 / 15

Access Clarity 13.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 5.1 / 10

Contract Governance 2.9 / 9

Discoverability 4.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 0 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 43.4 — up to +14.2 composite points
Contract Governance scores 31.8 — up to +8.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 52.6 — up to +6.2 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/elastic-observability/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/elastic-observability to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Search API (Elasticsearch / OpenSearch shape)	distribution	9.6 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (templated)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Elastic Observability

The Elastic Observability product surface: logs, metrics, APM traces, synthetics, RUM, universal profiling and SLOs on the Elastic Stack. The callable contracts are the four APM...

Elastic Observability Server Info API

The Server Info API from Elastic Observability — 1 operation(s) for server info.

Elastic Observability agent config API

APIs that query the APM Server for configuration changes.

Elastic Observability event intake API

The events intake API is the internal protocol that APM agents use to talk to the APM Server.

Elastic Observability opentelemetry intake API

The OpenTelemetry intake API uses the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) to send traces, metrics, and logs to APM Server. OTLP is the default transfer protocol for OpenTelemetry and ...

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Elastic Observability (APM Server) Agent Configuration API

OPEN COLLECTION

Elastic Observability (APM Server) Agent Configuration Intake API

OPEN COLLECTION

Elastic Observability (APM Server) Agent Configuration OpenTelemetry API

OPEN COLLECTION

Elastic Observability (APM Server) Agent Configuration Server Info API

OPEN COLLECTION

Elastic Observability (APM Server) API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Elastic Agent Builder MCP Server

Remote MCP server at {KIBANA_URL} requiring an API key.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 4

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

elastic-observability-check-server-health

AGENT SKILL

elastic-observability-export-otlp-telemetry

AGENT SKILL

elastic-observability-fetch-agent-config

AGENT SKILL

elastic-observability-send-apm-events

AGENT SKILL

Elastic Observability API pricing

Prices published by Elastic Observability, read 2026-10-28 from www.elastic.co/pricing/serverless-observability.

Plan	Price
Logs Essentials — ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others)	As low as $0.07 per GB ingested
Logs Essentials — retention	As low as $0.017 per GB retained per month
Complete — ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others)	As low as $0.09 per GB ingested
Complete — ingest metrics	As low as $0.023 per GB ingested
Complete — retention logs/traces	$0.019 per GB retained per month
Complete — retention metrics	$0.005 per GB retained per month
Egress	50 GB free, then $0.05 per GB transferred per month Includes: 50 GB free
Synthetic monitoring browser tests	$0.0123/test run

All 17 plans, limits and sources →

Billed by: gb ingested · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Elastic Observability Plans Pricing

17 plans

PLANS

Elastic Observability Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Elastic Observability Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Elastic Observability

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Elastic Observability Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Elastic Observability API Rules

54 rules · 51 errors 2 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 4

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Elastic Observability Agent Config Overlay

1 action · servers · elastic-observability-agent-config-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Elastic Observability Event Intake Overlay

2 actions · servers · elastic-observability-event-intake-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Elastic Observability Opentelemetry Intake Overlay

5 actions · servers · elastic-observability-opentelemetry-intake-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Elastic Observability Server Info Overlay

1 action · servers · elastic-observability-server-info-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Elastic Observability Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Elastic Observability Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Elastic Observability Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Elastic Observability Trust Center

FedRAMP High, FedRAMP Moderate, PCI DSS (Level 1 Service Provider), CSA STAR, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, SOC 2, SOC 3, TISAX, HIPAA, Cyber Essentials Plus, IRA...

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Elastic Observability Agentic Access

14 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Sandbox

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

SDKs

ToolCrosswalk

CLI

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Authentication

SecurityTxt

Compliance

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

Scroll for all 7

Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

Deprecation

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Support

HelpCenter

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: elastic-observability
name: Elastic Observability
description: 'Elastic Observability is Elastic''s unified logs, metrics, traces and profiling solution, built on the Elastic
  Stack. Its published machine-readable contract is the Observability Intake API served by APM Server: a newline-delimited
  JSON event intake for Elastic APM agents, a central agent-configuration endpoint, and native OpenTelemetry Protocol ingest
  over both OTLP/HTTP and OTLP/gRPC. Analysis of the telemetry once it has landed happens through Kibana and, for agents,
  through the Elastic Agent Builder MCP server, which exposes sixteen observability.* tools over a deployment-scoped endpoint.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/elastic-observability.png
tags:
- AIOps
- Observability
- APM
- Logging
- Metrics
- Tracing
- OpenTelemetry
- Monitoring
- Telemetry
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elastic-observability/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-27'
modified: '2026-08-29'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: elastic-observability:elastic-observability
  name: Elastic Observability
  description: 'The Elastic Observability product surface: logs, metrics, APM traces, synthetics, RUM, universal profiling
    and SLOs on the Elastic Stack. The callable contracts are the four APM Server intake APIs listed separately in this file.'
  humanURL: https://www.elastic.co/observability
  tags:
  - AIOps
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/solutions/observability
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/api
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.elastic.co/pricing/serverless-observability
- aid: elastic-observability:elastic-observability-server-info-api
  name: Elastic Observability Server Info API
  description: The Server Info API from Elastic Observability — 1 operation(s) for server info.
  humanURL: https://www.elastic.co/observability
  tags:
  - Server Info
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elastic-observability-server-info-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/solutions/observability/apm
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/elastic-observability-server-info-overlay.yaml
  baseURL: https://{deployment}.apm.{region}.cloud.es.io:443
- aid: elastic-observability:elastic-observability-agent-config-api
  name: Elastic Observability agent config API
  description: APIs that query the APM Server for configuration changes.
  humanURL: https://www.elastic.co/observability
  tags:
  - Agent Config
  tags_raw:
  - agent config
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elastic-observability-agent-config-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/solutions/observability/apm/apm-agents/central-configuration
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/elastic-observability-agent-config-overlay.yaml
  baseURL: https://{deployment}.apm.{region}.cloud.es.io:443
- aid: elastic-observability:elastic-observability-event-intake-api
  name: Elastic Observability event intake API
  description: The events intake API is the internal protocol that APM agents use to talk to the APM Server.
  humanURL: https://www.elastic.co/observability
  tags:
  - event intake
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elastic-observability-event-intake-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/solutions/observability/apm
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/elastic-observability-event-intake-overlay.yaml
  baseURL: https://{deployment}.apm.{region}.cloud.es.io:443
- aid: elastic-observability:elastic-observability-opentelemetry-intake-api
  name: Elastic Observability opentelemetry intake API
  description: 'The OpenTelemetry intake API uses the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) to send traces, metrics, and logs to APM
    Server. OTLP is the default transfer protocol for OpenTelemetry and is supported natively by APM Server. APM Server supports
    two OTLP communication protocols on the same port: OTLP/HTTP (protobuf) and OTLP/gRPC.'
  humanURL: https://www.elastic.co/observability
  tags:
  - opentelemetry intake
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elastic-observability-opentelemetry-intake-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/opentelemetry
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/elastic-observability-opentelemetry-intake-overlay.yaml
  baseURL: https://{deployment}.apm.{region}.cloud.es.io:443
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/elastic-observability-capability-edges.yml
  name: Elastic Observability Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/elastic-observability-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/elastic-observability-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/elastic-observability-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/elastic-observability-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.elastic.co/observability
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/solutions/observability
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.elastic.co/integrations
- type: Packages
  url: packages/elastic-observability-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/elastic-observability-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/elastic-observability-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/elastic-observability-security.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/elastic-observability-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/elastic-observability-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/elastic-observability-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/elastic-observability-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/elastic-observability-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/elastic-observability-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/elastic-observability-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.elastic.co
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://www.elastic.co/support/eol
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/elastic-observability-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/elastic-observability-changelog.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/elastic-observability-cli.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/elastic-observability-data-model.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/elastic-observability-sandbox.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/elastic-observability-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.elastic.co/product-security
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/elastic-observability-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/elastic-observability-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/elastic-observability-finops.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.elastic.co/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/get-started
- type: Support
  url: https://www.elastic.co/support
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://discuss.elastic.co
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.elastic.co/observability-labs
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/elastic
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.elastic.co/pricing/serverless-observability
- type: SignUp
  url: https://cloud.elastic.co/registration
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.elastic.co/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.elastic.co/legal/privacy-statement
integrations:
- name: Become a partner
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-29'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 28
  pass: local-v1
x-pointer-verification:
  checked: '2026-08-29'
  method: curl -L with a browser User-Agent; final status and effective URL recorded
  all_live: true
  note: 'Every common[] and properties[] URL in this file returned HTTP 200 on 2026-08-29. Two were rewritten to their redirect
    targets rather than left pointing at a 301: the Observability documentation link moved from /guide/en/observability/current/index.html
    to /docs/solutions/observability, and the security policy from /community/security to /product-security. No pointer was
    removed as dead.'
x-parent: elastic
x-relationship: product

Elastic Observability API — frequently asked questions

Does Elastic Observability have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Elastic Observability, including Elastic Observability, Elastic Observability Server Info API and Elastic Observability agent config API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Elastic Observability API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Elastic Observability, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Elastic Observability API?

Elastic Observability uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Elastic Observability Authentication.

How much does the Elastic Observability API cost?

Elastic Observability publishes its prices; its Logs Essentials — ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others) plan is As low as $0.07 per GB ingested as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 17 pricing plans for Elastic Observability, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Elastic Observability have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Elastic Observability: Remote MCP server at {KIBANA_URL} requiring an API key.

Is the Elastic Observability API ready for AI agents?

Elastic Observability has a Kin Score of 63.3 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 28.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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