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When adding OSM layers to QGIS in either PBF or OSM format, the ELE (elevation) tag in nodes is not being imported. This has been tested in version 2.14 and 3.2.

Take an example of Uhuru Peak (Kilimanjaro) which has osm_id 32059197. The raw tags in the OSM file are:
_ <tag k="description" v="Highest peak in Africa."/>
<tag k="ele" v="5895"/>
<tag k="is_in" v="Kilimanjaro National Park"/>
<tag k="is_in:country" v="Tanzania"/>
<tag k="name" v="Uhuru Peak"/>
<tag k="name:cs" v="Kilimandžáro"/>
<tag k="name:en" v="Kilimanjaro"/>
<tag k="name:ku" v="Kilîmanjaro"/>
<tag k="natural" v="peak"/>
<tag k="old_name" v="Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze"/>
<tag k="url" v="http://www.ultimatekilimanjaro.com/index.htm"/>
<tag k="volcano:status" v="dormant"/>
<tag k="volcano:type" v="stratovolcano"/>
<tag k="website" v="http://www.kilimanjaroroutes.com/"/>
<tag k="wikidata" v="Q7296"/>
<tag k="wikipedia" v="en:Mount Kilimanjaro"/>_
But this only converts to the following in the OTHER_TAGS attibute in QGIS...
"description"=>"Highest peak in Africa.","is_in:country"=>"Tanzania","name:cs"=>"Kilimandžáro","name:en"=>"Kilimanjaro","name:ku"=>"Kilîmanjaro","natural"=>"peak","old_name"=>"Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze","url"=>"http://www.ultimatekilimanjaro.com/index.htm","volcano:status"=>"dormant","volcano:type"=>"stratovolcano","website"=>"http://www.kilimanjaroroutes.com/","wikidata"=>"Q7296","wikipedia"=>"en:Mount Kilimanjaro"
You can see that every tag except "ele" has been imported.

This same bug was found when using ogr2ogr to import OSM data into a PostgreSQL database.