Elastic Observability Labs

14 July 2026

Elastic z/OS ingest: five architectures for mainframe data

by Anna Maria Modée

This field guide walks through the ingest architectures I've seen work in production, the data quality checks that decide whether your dashboards actually work, and the ECS mapping that makes mainframe data usable to the platform.

Tags

• OpenTelemetry
• APM
• Metrics
• Log Analytics
• GenAI
• Instrumentation
• Kubernetes
• Cloud Monitoring
• LLM Observability
• AWS

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