SME Track: Developers
Presenter: Roberto Pantoja
Date: 2026-08-12
SLB × Elastic Workshop Program
Fast track to Kibana — Discover, dashboards, filters, and drilldowns with direct comparisons to Grafana workflows.
These labs run on Observability Serverless — a fully managed project so you can practice without cluster operations.
The same capabilities you explore here — ES|QL, Streams, AI Assistant, Agent Builder, Workflows, and SLOs — are available on Elastic Cloud Hosted (ECH) and self-managed deployments.
Serverless mainly saves operational toil (sizing, ILM, Fleet, upgrades). Your observability skills transfer directly.
Use → to see why each feature matters for SLB.
Explore raw telemetry before you visualize
Jump straight to dashboards and miss the field that explains the outage.
Discover filters, sorts, and column-picks any index pattern — the fastest way to learn your schema.
Grafana-style views, Elastic-native drilldowns
Static panels that break when fields change — no path from chart to raw events without switching tools.
Lens builds visualizations drag-and-drop; dashboards link to Discover, APM, and ES|QL for drilldown.
Logs, metrics, and traces in one place
Three tabs, three tools, manual correlation — "which deploy caused this spike?" takes too long.
APM, Logs Explorer, and Metrics views link the same service context — pivot from error log to trace to CPU in clicks.
Your lab uses Elastic Observability Serverless for a zero-ops learning environment.
The steps and features are the same on ECH and on-prem — follow the assignment panel when Kibana opens.
Instruqt track: slb-sme-developers