# Elastic Observability Labs

#### 14 July 2026

## [Elastic z/OS ingest: five architectures for mainframe data](/content/observability-labs/blog/mainframe-data-ingestion/index.html)

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](/content/observability-labs/blog/tag/opentelemetry/index.html)
- [APM](/content/observability-labs/blog/tag/apm/index.html)
- [Metrics](/content/observability-labs/blog/tag/metrics/index.html)
- [Log Analytics](/content/observability-labs/blog/tag/log-analytics/index.html)
- [GenAI](/content/observability-labs/blog/tag/genai/index.html)
- [Instrumentation](/content/observability-labs/blog/tag/instrumentation/index.html)
- [Kubernetes](/content/observability-labs/blog/tag/kubernetes/index.html)
- [Cloud Monitoring](/content/observability-labs/blog/tag/cloud-monitoring/index.html)
- [LLM Observability](/content/observability-labs/blog/tag/llmobs/index.html)
- [AWS](/content/observability-labs/blog/tag/aws/index.html)

## Featured Articles  
1. **[From five dashboards to one prompt: how we built an APM health monitor with Elastic Agent Builder](/content/observability-labs/blog/apm-health-check-elastic-agent-builder/index.html)**  
     
   by Naga Putta, Stephen Brown - 9 July 2026  
2. **[Common ES|QL queries for Kubernetes monitoring](/content/observability-labs/blog/esql-kubernetes-monitoring/index.html)**  
     
   by Jeffrey Rengifo - 8 July 2026  
3. **[Elastic now alerts at 80% OpenAI rate limit usage, before your app gets throttled](/content/observability-labs/blog/openai-rate-limit-monitoring/index.html)**  
     
   by Daniela Tzvetkova - 2 July 2026  
4. **[One OTLP endpoint, three teams, zero routing rules: Elasticsearch Streams AI Partitioning](/content/observability-labs/blog/elasticsearch-streams-ai-partitioning-log-routing/index.html)**  
     
   by Aleksandar Panov - 1 July 2026  
5. **[Elasticsearch: best-in-class for logs, now best-in-class for metrics](/content/observability-labs/blog/prometheus-metrics-elasticsearch-faster-cheaper-datadog/index.html)**  
     
   by Bahubali Shetti, Vinay Chandrasekhar - 29 June 2026