StackOps Elastic (Serverless)
This guide covers StackOps Elastic Serverless. For the hosted deployment guide, see Elastic (Hosted).
Tailored for the Whole-of-Government (WOG), StackOps Elastic Serverless provides a fully managed, autoscaling observability platform. With no clusters to provision or manage, agencies gain immediate access to centralised log monitoring, infrastructure observability, application performance tracing, and security capabilities - all backed by Elastic’s serverless architecture. By leveraging StackOps Elastic, agencies can improve system reliability, enhance application security, and streamline DevSecOps collaboration.
- For platform features: Key capabilities
- For WOG-specific value additions: StackOps enhancements
Serverless vs. Hosted
| Capability | Serverless | Hosted |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure management | Fully managed by Elastic — no clusters to size, patch, or scale | Agency manages deployment sizing and upgrades |
| Scaling | Automatic and transparent | Manual or autoscaling rules |
| AWS, Azure connectivity | VPC endpoint (PrivateLink) | VPC endpoint or public endpoint |
| Monitoring approach | Agent-based and agentless (Managed Integrations) | Agent-based |
| APM instrumentation | OpenTelemetry-native via EDOT | Elastic APM agents or OpenTelemetry |
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Subscription-based by deployment size |
StackOps benefits
StackOps was developed to enable agencies to embrace Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), a practice that emphasises observing the performance of every component and service in a system. The SRE approach improves DevSecOps maturity by shifting logging and monitoring into the development cycle, ensuring that operational concerns and reliability concepts are built-in.
Adopting StackOps Elastic Serverless brings the following advantages:
- Zero infrastructure overhead — No clusters to provision, scale, or maintain. Focus on observing your applications rather than managing your monitoring platform.
- SLO tracking — Resolves issues with tracking Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for government services.
- End-to-end visibility — Combines synthetic monitoring (outside-in), infrastructure monitoring (inside-out), and APM (code-level) for a complete observability picture.
- Rapid time-to-value — Start monitoring within minutes using pre-built integrations for AWS services, web servers, and application frameworks.
- Centralised platform — Offers a one-stop solution for monitoring the health and performance of government services, with built-in alerting, case management, and AI-assisted analysis.
- Vendor-agnostic telemetry — OpenTelemetry support lets agencies own their data generation while leveraging Elastic’s analysis and visualisation capabilities.
- Actionable metrics — Creates meaningful presentation of metrics that are aggregated based on what service owners, DevOps teams, and site reliability engineers need to know.
