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Migrate from Elastic to Logfire

Elastic’s observability is fed by OTLP, either through the Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT — Elastic’s Collector and SDK distributions) or by pointing OTel SDKs at the Elastic Cloud Managed OTLP Endpoint (mOTLP). Authentication uses an Authorization: ApiKey <key> header. Because it’s standard OpenTelemetry, migrating to Logfire is an exporter change — see Migrate to Logfire for the general shape.

You’ll need a Logfire write token and your region endpoint (https://logfire-us.pydantic.dev or -eu).

If your apps export OTLP

Point the SDK at Logfire and replace Elastic’s API key header with Logfire’s write token:

Terminal
# before (Elastic — copy your Managed OTLP Endpoint from Elastic Cloud; the
# API key from Kibana does not include the "ApiKey " scheme, so add it yourself):
#   OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=https://<your-managed-otlp-endpoint>
#   OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS='Authorization=ApiKey your-elastic-api-key'
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=https://logfire-us.pydantic.dev
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL=http/protobuf
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS='Authorization=your-write-token'
export OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=your-service-name

If you run the EDOT Collector

Change the exporter’s endpoint and header to Logfire’s:

exporters:
  otlphttp/logfire:
    endpoint: "https://logfire-us.pydantic.dev"  # or https://logfire-eu.pydantic.dev
    headers:
      # was: Authorization: "ApiKey your-elastic-api-key"
      Authorization: "Bearer ${env:LOGFIRE_TOKEN}"

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      exporters: [otlphttp/logfire]
    metrics:
      exporters: [otlphttp/logfire]
    logs:
      exporters: [otlphttp/logfire]

Keep both exporters in the pipeline to run in parallel during a cutover.

Verify

Run your workload and open the Live view. Traces should appear within seconds.

See also