--- title: Introducing the Elastic distribution of the... description: Elastic introduces the distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent, enhancing the vanilla OTel Java agent with additional features. It includes inferred... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-the-elastic-distribution-of-the-opentelemetry-java-agent-ust3sl1cs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent | daily.dev og:description: Elastic introduces the distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent, enhancing the vanilla OTel Java agent with additional features. It includes inferred... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-the-elastic-distribution-of-the-opentelemetry-java-agent-ust3sl1cs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uSt3Sl1CS.png og:image:alt: Introducing the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introducing the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent **[elastic](https://daily.dev/sources/elastic)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Elastic introduces the distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent, enhancing the vanilla OTel Java agent with additional features. It includes inferred spans, correlation with profiling, span stack traces, and auto-detection of service and cloud resources. 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