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These instructions can get your local Kibana development environment set up to send logs, metrics, and traces directly to a development Elasticsearch cluster using the Elasticsearch OTLP/HTTP endpoint.

You might want to do this in development so you can have basic otel data without having to run a collector.

These instructions are for running locally in Serverless mode but most things apply for non-serverless also.

This is not a supported configuration and some parts of the Elastic Observability UI will not work as expected.

Elasticsearch

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---
description: '"pro" command — open the GitHub Pull Request Overview in VS Code'
globs:
alwaysApply: false
---

## "pro" — Pull Request Overview

When the user says **"pro"**, open the GitHub Pull Requests extension's PR overview page (the description/overview tab) for the specified PR.

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Workflows, Not Tasks: Rethinking Elastic's Background Execution Architecture

2026-03-04 — Nathan Smith, Tech Lead, APM @ Elastic Observability

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The Problem

Kibana Task Manager is an application-level job queue embedded in a UI server. It is simultaneously the scheduler, the claimer, and the executor — all inside a Node.js process that also serves HTTP requests. These concerns can't scale independently, and the polling-based claim model generates wasted load on Elasticsearch at scale.

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Background Job Architecture for Elastic — Discussion Notes

2026-03-04 — Starting from @platformatic/job-queue, ending at first principles

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1. @platformatic/job-queue — What Is It?

Matteo Collina (Node.js TSC, Fastify creator) and Platformatic shipped a new job queue library for Node.js with a clean pluggable storage interface:

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---
description: Code review workflow — triggered by "let's do code review", "review", or "review <number/URL>"
globs:
alwaysApply: false
---

## Code Review Process

When the user says "let's do code review", "review", or similar:

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---
description: Auto-sync Kibana repo with upstream and bootstrap on session start
globs:
alwaysApply: true
---

When the user starts a new session in the Kibana workspace (`/Users/smith/Code/kibana`) with a greeting or "kibana-sre" prompt:

1. **Sync with upstream**: `git fetch upstream main && git merge --ff-only upstream/main`
2. **Push to origin**: `git push origin main` (only if on main)

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Session — 2026-02-19

Summary

Audited all Elasticsearch client usage across x-pack/solutions/observability/ in Kibana. Produced a comprehensive report showing which observability apps use which ES client abstractions (direct ElasticsearchClient, custom wrappers, IScopedClusterClient) and where the key client factories/types are defined.

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Request: Find all ES client imports in observability and report which apps use which clients

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#  ~/Desktop/elastic-agent-9.0.1-darwin-aarch64/otelcol components

buildinfo:
    command: /Users/smith/Desktop/elastic-agent-9.0.1-darwin-aarch64/elastic-agent
    description: Elastic opentelemetry-collector distribution
    version: 9.0.1
receivers:
    - name: filebeatreceiver
      stability:
        logs: Alpha

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[
	{
		"id": "registry.android.deprecated",
		"type": "attribute_group",
		"display_name": "Deprecated Android Attributes",
		"brief": "This document defines attributes that represents an occurrence of a lifecycle transition on the Android platform.\n",
		"attributes": [
			"android.state"
		]
	},

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const fs = require("fs");
const path = require("path");
const yaml = require("js-yaml");

function extractEntitiesAndRelationships(baseDir) {
  const entities = [];

  function processFile(filePath) {
    const fileContent = fs.readFileSync(filePath, "utf8");
    const data = yaml.load(fileContent);