Add Elastic how-tos for tracing, metrics and logging - #5308
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Dapr's only Elastic-specific page today is the FluentD logging how-to. There is no Elastic page under tracing or metrics, while comparable backends have one in each section. These three pages cover sending Dapr's traces, metrics and logs to Elastic using the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector, which is the Elastic Agent running in otel mode reading a standard collector configuration. A single collector can carry all three signals, so the pages share a deployment shape and one credentials secret. Each page is scoped to what is specific to Elastic. General tracing behaviour stays in the tracing overview and the generic collector how-to, and the metrics page links to the scrape jobs already documented in the Prometheus how-to rather than restating them. Two requirements of this pipeline are noted, because in both cases data otherwise arrives incomplete rather than absent: - cumulativetodelta on the metrics pipeline. Dapr's histograms are cumulative and the Elasticsearch exporter accepts only delta temporality, so the dapr_*_latency and *_bytes distributions are dropped without it while counters are unaffected. - json_parser after the container parser on the logs pipeline, otherwise each line stays an escaped string in body.text and Dapr's fields are not queryable. Verified against Dapr 1.18.4 and elastic-agent 9.5.3 on Kubernetes with Elasticsearch 9.1.2. Signed-off-by: MyMirelHub <15373565+MyMirelHub@users.noreply.github.com>
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Description
Adds Elastic how-tos to the three observability sections. Elastic currently appears only in the FluentD logging page, with nothing under
tracing/ormetrics/.tracing/otel-collector/open-telemetry-collector-elastic.mdmetrics/elastic-metrics.mdlogging/elastic-logs.mdAll three use the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector (EDOT), which is the Elastic Agent running in
otelmode reading a standard collector configuration. One collector can carry all three signals, so the pages share a deployment shape and a single credentials secret, and cross-link to each other.Issue reference
Closes #5307