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Using Elastic as a global data mesh: Unify data access with security, governance, and policy

The Elastic search analytics platform can be used as a global data mesh. Learn more about what a data mesh is, how it's different from a data fabric, and key differentiators that uniquely position Ela...

Simplify stream processing for generative AI applications with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink® and Elasticsearch®

We partnered with Confluent as they announce the GA of the industry’s only cloud-native, serverless Apache Flink® service — ready within Confluent’s data streaming platform with a cloud-native service...

Margaret Wright on being a working mom and a leader at work

When Margaret Wright returned from parental leave last year she was asked to run Elastic® 's west coast growth team — a promotion from her previous role managing the small medium business sales team. ...

Enrich your Elasticsearch documents from the edge

Using enrichment from the edge reduces the work to be performed by Elasticsearch. Learn how to implement this technique with the Elastic Agent....

How to Create ‘Win-Win Scenarios’ for Your Team — Leadership Advice From a Director

How can you become a successful leader? Just “go for it,” advises Tehila Shneider, Director of Security Engineering at Elastic....

Switching from the Java High Level Rest Client to the new Java API Client

Let's say you have a Java project using Elastic 7.17 and the deprecated High Level Rest Client (HLRC). You have been asked to switch to Elastic 8.11 but the HLRC does not exist for this version. This ...

Analyzing OpenTelemetry apps with Elastic AI Assistant and APM

Elastic Observability provides native OpenTelemetry support, but analyzing applications logs, metrics, and traces can be daunting. Elastic Observability not only provides AIOps features but also an AI...

OpenTelemetry and Elastic: Working together to establish continuous profiling for the community

OpenTelemetry is embracing profiling. Elastic is donating its whole-system continuous profiling agent to OpenTelemetry to further this advancement, empowering OTel users to improve computational effic...

Secure data is superior data: A security-first approach to the DoD Data Strategy

Security is the foundational tenet on which any tech solution should be built and the common thread through the subsequent goals of VAULTIS. As the DoD works to modernize its data strategy, start the ...

Modernizing financial services: A deep dive into Elastic Cloud on AWS for Observability, Security, and more

As the landscape continues to evolve across increasingly complex ecosystems, Elastic Cloud in AWS Marketplace serves as a key enabler for observability within the banking, insurance, capital markets, ...

How Elastic AI Assistant for Security and Amazon Bedrock can empower security analysts for enhanced performance

The Elastic AI Assistant for Security coupled with Anthropic’s Claude model via Amazon Bedrock can elevate a security team’s posture and eliminate mundane tasks....

Is support engineering the right fit for you?

We sat down with Kesia to learn more about the road that led to support engineering, along with four questions to ask yourself before diving into the field....

Building secure and resilient telco networks

Using the NIST framework, ThoughtLab recently concluded a cybersecurity benchmark study that spanned across industries, including telecommunications. How well armed is the industry to protect critical...

What do telco security teams need from a SIEM?

In the past couple of years, two things stood out for the telecom industry: 5G and cloud adoption. Put together, there is a need for a completely revamped approach to security. And the journey begins ...

Why Splunk customers face a choice for observability and modernization

Evaluating Elastic capabilities vs. Splunk for observability? It's time to dump Splunk. Elastic offers a simpler, unified solution that positions companies for the future. Modern application and opera...

Elastic Stack 7.17.17 released

Read about the updates and bug fixes that have been included in this release....

Chatbots, AI, and human resources: A winning combination for telco and enterprise organizations

The integration of generative AI with Elastic Stack can transform the onboarding experience into something that is not just efficient, but also engaging and reassuring for new employees in telecommuni...

Elastic recognized with 2024 EMA Allstars award for its AI-assisted observability

Elastic Observability is recognized for not only breaking down data silos but allowing more effective analysis of system and app performance — on a platform that embraces open standards and a holistic...

Transforming SAP observability: The Elastic-Kyndryl partnership

The Elastic-Kyndryl partnership offers a revolutionary solution for real-time SAP system monitoring. This innovative approach ensures comprehensive SAP observability, optimizing performance and promot...

EMA explores Elastic AI Assistant for Security

EMA’s recent publication focuses on the Elastic AI Assistant for Security and investigates the impact that the generative AI assistant will have on the security landscape. ...

Top 5 reasons to upgrade Elastic Security

Elastic upgrades come quickly, and it can be a challenge to schedule upgrades. Here we’ll take a quick look at the top five new features in Elastic Security that’ll help you reduce risk and control costs.

US federal agencies and AI: The race is on

A new audit from the US government shows that federal agencies are rapidly increasing their use of AI. Here, we unpack agencies’ AI use cases and top considerations for AI implementation in government.

Why do customers choose Elastic for logs?

Elastic helped define centralized logging; now we’re redefining the value modern logging tools can bring. We discuss how ES|QL, ML, AI, and OTel enable customers to transform logging from a reactive debugging tool to a proactive observability signal.

M-21-31 logging compliance: Overcoming the 3 top challenges

US federal agencies have made progress in adhering to M-21-31’s cyber threat response requirements but lag in advanced event logging requirements. Learn how Elastic can help agencies overcome three major challenges slowing M-21-31 logging compliance.

The EU AI Act: What you need to know

The EU’s AI Act, which sets regulations for artificial intelligence, is the first of its kind — but it likely will not be the last. Here’s what it means for global organizations and what you can do to prepare.

The benefits of using a Verified MSP for your Elastic deployments

Discover the benefits of a managed service provider and learn about Elastic’s new MSP designation, Verified. Explore eight considerations for choosing the right MSP for your business.

Decemberfest is here! How we celebrate the holidays at Elastic

Take a peek at how Elasticians around the world are celebrating the holiday season during Decemberfest.

Elastic Stack 7.17.16 released

Read about the updates and bug fixes that have been included in this release.

That's a wrap! Looking back on the Elastic and AWS collaboration in 2023

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, except when it’s Elastic recapping AWS re:Invent 2023! As a Diamond sponsor, we enjoyed supporting our partner AWS at this flagship event. We’ve also compiled an Elastic + AWS 2023 year in review.

Elastic Stack 8.11.3 released

Read about the updates and bug fixes that have been included in this release.

A CISO’s perspective: Why I’ve read the Elastic Global Threat Report

See how Elastic CISO Mandy Andress is using key findings from the 2023 Elastic Global Threat Report to prepare her teams for the upcoming year.

Take control of your Elastic Cloud spend with data-driven insights

We have updated the billing page for our direct monthly, marketplace monthly, and annual customers. The changes include a more user-friendly interface, improved graphical data representations, and repositioned filters for easier navigation.

How to deploy a Hello World web app with Elastic Observability on Azure Container Apps

Follow the step-by-step process of instrumenting Elastic Observability for a Hello World web app running on Azure Container Apps.

Enabling real-time decision-making through asset tracking

Elastic’s approach to real-time situational awareness (RTSA) can help defense leaders track and manage their assets across all domains to make better decisions in tactical scenarios.

What does it mean to work in GenAI at Elastic?

Discover how Elasticians shape GenAI at Elastic and the key skills to get hired.

Elastic Global Threat Report 2023: Top cybersecurity forecasts and recommendations

Learn how to defend against the most common and emerging cyber threats of 2023 with insights and recommendations from Elastic's comprehensive analysis of over one billion data points.

Elastic Stack 8.10.4 released

Read about the updates and bug fixes that have been included in this release.

Air-gapped ECK implementation: Strengthening DoD DevSecOps

The Department of Defense adopted a DevSecOps culture in 2021. In DevSecOps, it’s important to have observability in your pipelines and application’s performance. ECK is a great option for the DevSecOps culture in air-gapped environments.

Getting started with the Elastic Stack and Docker Compose: Part 2

In this blog, build on our previous cluster and implement additional features such as Fleet, Agent, APM, and a demo application for your POC delight! Remember, Docker Compose is not recommended for production, even if the cluster sizing is larger.

Inform your personal fitness journey with Elasticsearch queries and Kibana

In this blog, we will use the Elasticsearch Python Client to send MyFitnessPal data to Elastic in order to better understand the trends and behaviors surrounding our nutrition.

Get to know the Elastic Community series: Meet Giovana do Nascimento

In this blog post, get to know Giovana do Nascimento Pena. Giovana is a full-stack application developer at IBM and was awarded as a Bronze Contributor in 2022. Additionally, she is the Elastic Community Organizer for the São Paulo user group.

Migrating 1 billion log lines from OpenSearch to Elasticsearch

Learn how to migrate 1 billion log lines from OpenSearch to Elasticsearch for improved performance and reduced disk usage. Discover the migration strategies, data transfer methods, and optimization techniques used in this guide.

Reading books as a child encouraged Angela Chuang to follow her dream of becoming a software engineer

Angela Chuang followed in her father’s footsteps to a career in software engineering.

Elastic wins 2023 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award for Cloud Security Platform of the Year

Elastic is honored to receive the 2023 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award for Cloud Platform of the Year. This recognizes Elastic Security for Cloud as a leading cloud security solution that delivers comprehensive protection for cloud-based workloads.

ING's bold leap into the future: Building a global, cloud-based financial messaging system with Elastic

ING, a global banking giant, adopts Elastic to modernize its financial messaging system, ensuring compliance, speed, and future-proofing in a changing financial landscape.

Building for the future

Hundreds of customers gathered at ElasticON AI in San Francisco. It was incredible to see what our customers are building with Elastic and AI.

How to deploy a Hello World web app with Elastic Observability on AWS App Runner

Follow the step-by-step process of instrumenting Elastic Observability for a Hello World web app running on AWS App Runner.

Customize your data ingestion with Elastic input packages

In this post, learn about input packages and how they can provide a flexible solution to advanced users for customizing their ingestion experience in Elastic.

Elastic SQL inputs: A generic solution for database metrics observability

This blog dives into the functionality of generic SQL and provides various use cases for advanced users to ingest custom metrics to Elastic for database observability. We also introduce the fetch from all database new capability released in 8.10.

How Elasticians celebrate their culture this Elasticians Unidos month

Hispanic Heritage month—or as we like to call it, Elasticians Unidos Month is a month to celebrate the culture and impact of Latinx.

Revolutionizing big data management: Unveiling the power of Amazon EMR and Elastic integration

Amazon EMR allows you to easily run and scale big data workloads. With Elastic’s native integration, you'll find the confidence to monitor, analyze, and optimize your EMR clusters, opening up exciting opportunities for your data-driven initiatives.

Introducing Filestream fingerprint mode

In Filebeat 8.10.0 and 7.17.12 we introduced a new fingerprint mode. This article covers the problem this new mode solves, what changes have been made to implement it, and details on how it works.

4 steps UK government can take to reduce legacy IT and streamline budget

Over 25% of the UK government’s digital budget is spent on reducing legacy IT and cybersecurity. An IT modernisation project can be daunting — but the upside is reduced risk, tool consolidation, operational efficiencies, and long-term cost savings.

Troubleshooting guide: Solving 6 common issues in Kibana Discover load

This blog post provides a troubleshooting guide for the Kibana® Discover UI view, including long loads, time outs, and errors.

Elastic Stack 7.17.13 released

Read about the updates and bug fixes that have been included in this release.

Elastic Stack 8.9.2 released

Read about the updates and bug fixes that have been included in this release.

Asuka Nakajima aspired to be a hacker. Now she’s a security research engineer.

Women in tech: Asuka Nakajima followed her childhood dream into cybersecurity. Now she’s a security research engineer.

Manual instrumentation of .NET applications with OpenTelemetry

In this blog, we will look at how to manually instrument your .NET applications using OpenTelemetry, which provides a set of APIs, libraries, and agents to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them in Elastic.

Automatic instrumentation with OpenTelemetry for Python applications

Learn how to auto-instrument Python applications using OpenTelemetry. With standard commands in a Docker file, applications can be instrumented quickly without writing code in multiple places, enabling rapid change, scale, and easier management.

Automatic instrumentation with OpenTelemetry for Node.js applications

Learn how to auto-instrument Node.js applications using OpenTelemetry. With standard commands in a Docker file, applications can be instrumented quickly without writing code in multiple places, enabling rapid change, scale, and easier management.

Manual instrumentation of Java applications with OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry provides an observability framework for cloud-native software, allowing us to trace, monitor, and debug applications seamlessly. In this post, we'll explore how to manually instrument a Java application using OpenTelemetry.

7 tech challenges that can be collaboration opportunities for global governments

Governments around the world face similar challenges, such as cybersecurity, legacy IT, and the ethical use of AI. Rather than addressing each issue on their own, agencies can learn from each other's experiences and collaborate when appropriate.

The role of generative AI in higher ed IT

Generative AI has the potential to transform the IT landscape at universities, increasing productivity and job satisfaction and leading to better student outcomes. Learn how Elasticsearch can serve as the bridge between private data and LLMs.

10 rules for security leadership

By understanding their organization's DNA and cultivating a collaborative security culture, CISOs can make an indelible impact on their organization's cybersecurity resilience while maximizing their personal performance.

Elastic wins Google Cloud's Global Technology Partner of the Year Award

Elastic has won the 2023 Google Cloud Global Technology Partner of the Year Award. This prestigious award is given to one Google Cloud partner at the forefront of digital innovation working with Google Cloud to solve today's biggest challenges.

How to deploy Hello World Elastic Observability on Google Cloud Run

Follow the step-by-step process of instrumenting Elastic Observability for a Hello World web app running on Google Cloud Run.

Elastic and Google Cloud collaborate on generative AI and security as a part of an expanded partnership

Learn how Elastic and Google Cloud are building on our recent joint success with increased investments to accelerate and extend joint go-to-market activities and drive technology integrations.

Adding passage vector search to Lucene

Discover how we added passage vectors to Apache Lucene, the benefits of doing so, and how existing Lucene structures were used to create an efficient retrieval experience.

Ecommerce marketplace Modalova doubles its revenue by improving search accuracy with Elastic

Gabriel Kaam, the founder of Modalova, implemented Elasticsearch to efficiently handle their vast inventory and deliver more personalized results to customers — resulting in increased conversion rates from 30% to 50% and doubling revenue in a year.

How to successfully lead a team in a distributed workplace

A recent Forbes article showed that 98% of workers want to work remotely at least some of the time, but only 16% of companies operate remotely. Elastic has always operated distributedly — we are distributed by design.

What’s next: Black Hat 2023 takeaways

Black Hat USA 2023 showcased cybersecurity advancements and cutting-edge research. This blog explores major trends and how they may shape the field in the coming months and years.

How to get actionable insights from your data

A recent study reveals that companies that master putting their untapped data to work reap significant rewards. Learn about the five key strategies of successful 'data leaders' who harness data to fuel growth and innovation.

Identifying malicious Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections with Elastic Security

Elastic Security is excited to announce a new lateral movement detection package that makes use of advanced analytics.

Demystifying ChatGPT: Different methods for building AI search

In this blog, we look at how ChatGPT works, and consider three approaches to build generative AI like search experiences for specific domains.

Achieve faster cardinality aggregations via dynamic pruning

Elasticsearch 8.9 introduces optimizations to cardinality aggregations by filtering out documents whose value has already been collected.

Activating the new Intelligence Community data strategy with Elastic as a unified foundation

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its 2023–2025 data strategy for the US Intelligence Community (IC). In this post, learn why the strategy is important and how Elastic can help the IC build a unified data strategy.

Retrieval vs. poison — Fighting AI supply chain attacks

In this post, learn about the supply chain vulnerabilities of artificial intelligence large language models and how the AI retrieval techniques of search engines can be used to fight misinformation and intentional tampering of AI.

Avoid Shadow AI — Embrace generative AI in the SOC

When companies hesitate to implement generative AI, their employees do it for them. Learn about the threat of Shadow AI and how to incorporate generative AI in a security-conscious way.

Fingerprint enables rapid regulatory compliance with Elastic

Fingerprint is a regulatory tech company which enables customers to achieve compliance, faster and with greater insight. Elasticsearch is a critical component of this formula, providing the capabilities upon which Fingerprint adds its secret sauce.

Elastic partners with Chainguard on Software Supply Chain security and SLSA assessment

After supply chain breaches against SolarWinds, organizations are focused on protecting their software. Elastic's SLSA assessment was the largest carried out by Chainguard. Elastic implements strategic solutions to protect the software supply chain.

Elastic 8.9: Meet the Elastic AI Assistant for Security and ML-powered SIEM

Elastic 8.9 provides faster search performance and increased SIEM capabilities along with the beta of the Elastic AI Assistant, to bolster security teams with generative AI, and the tech preview of Reciprocal Rank Fusion for hybrid search.

Elastic Search 8.9: Hybrid search with RRF, faster vector search, and public-facing search endpoints

Elastic Search 8.9 brings improvements to vector search and ingestion and presents hybrid search with RRF to combine vector, keyword, and semantic techniques. Public-facing search endpoints for indices are now available with search applications beta.

Top 6 security considerations for enterprise AI implementation

In this blog, we'll discuss insights from two thought-provoking articles to highlight the top six considerations that organizations should focus on while implementing enterprise AI solutions.

Turning data into mission value in government and education

In this blog, we'll discuss information from a new study on data value and offer recommendations on how public sector leaders, such as government and education leaders, can best extract value from their data.

Open Security impact: Elastic AI Assistant

Learn how Elastic's commitment to Open Security increases accuracy, efficiency, and usability in the Elastic AI Assistant.

7 tips for creating engaging employee events

Creating events that employees actually want to engage in can be difficult, especially as a distributed company. Here, we share our secrets to employee event success.

How to index data into Elasticsearch from Confluent Cloud

This blog post is a technical guide on how to integrate Confluent Cloud with Elasticsearch through the dedicated Elasticsearch Service Sink connector.

Elastic + Cribl help organizations migrate SIEM and keep it simple

Explore ways Elastic and Cribl work together to accelerate SIEM migration and provide the right options for ongoing security pipeline management.

A game of nations — How nation-states prepare for cyber threats with Locked Shields

In this blog, we discuss the concept of a nation-state and provide an overview of Locked Shields — the world's largest cybersecurity exercise — and its role in promoting cyberwarfare readiness for NATO member states and partners.

What is an Elasticsearch index?

Understand what an index is in Elasticsearch and how it compares to relational databases. Learn about flexible storage, efficient retrieval, advanced indexing, and search capabilities.

How to activate APM in Kibana and Elasticsearch to gain next-level alerting insights

Kibana alerting has been around for a while, but there's more in the works to provide better views into what each alert is doing and where it’s spending its time. Learn how we worked to improve the insights you can gather with APM in Kibana.

How to find anomalies in the sea of Splunk Zeek data

This blog will illustrate how to easily configure the Elastic Agent Zeek integration to pull data from the Splunk API. Once the data is in Elastic, then you can search, analyze, and act on it using the prebuilit ML jobs.

ChatGPT and Elasticsearch: A plugin to use ChatGPT with your Elastic data

Learn how to implement a plugin and enable ChatGPT users to extend ChatGPT with any content indexed in Elasticsearch, using the Elastic documentation.

4 tips to excel in technical support from Elastic's Julie Baxter-Rudd

Elastic's Vice President of Global Customer Support, Julie Baxter-Rudd, got her start in technical support over two decades ago.

A taxonomy of endpoint security detection bypasses

This blog post breaks down a taxonomy for endpoint security products. It suggests using complementary feature set descriptions, each with strengths and weaknesses, rather than a generational definition with concentric features.

Someone Like Me: Tristan Ma on celebrating his culture, connecting through ElastAsians, and building his sales career

First generation can be interpreted in many ways. For Tristan Ma, Solutions Architect at Elastic, it means being the first generation to be born in the United States. Read about his career journey and how he celebrates his culture through food.

How do incremental snapshots work?

During our instructor-led “Elasticsearch Engineer” training, one of the most common questions we get while teaching about snapshots is “what is the incremental nature of snapshots?” This blog post will cover that topic in detail.

Using AIOps effectively with Elastic Observability

An overview of the AIOps capabilities within the Elastic Observability full-stack solution! From noise reduction to anomaly detection and root cause analysis, AIOps helps teams troubleshoot and respond more quickly to application performance issues.

Industrial control systems security with Elastic Security and Zeek

This blog walks through the security challenges associated with ICS and how Elastic Security and Zeek can help address them, in addition to the benefits of having integrated machine learning and threat intelligence within the ICS security program.

How to use Elasticsearch and Time Series Data Streams for observability metrics

With Time Series Data Streams (TSDS), Elasticsearch introduces optimized storage for metrics time series. Check out how we use it for Elastic Observability.

Bringing Elastic to robotics developers: Integrating with ROS

As the robotics industry grows and evolves, the integration of Elastic with ROS will continue to play a crucial role in enabling developers to effectively manage and analyze the vast amounts of data generated by connected devices and sensors.

Designing an observability solution for public cloud and on-prem implementation

Learn about the different components architects should consider when designing an observability solution for public cloud and on-premise implementations.

ChatGPT and Elasticsearch: OpenAI meets private data

Explore the integration of Elasticsearch's search relevance capability with ChatGPT's question-answering capability to enhance your domain-specific knowledge base. Learn how to harness ChatGPT to enrich your information repository like never before!

Beyond the build: Why runtime security is critical for container protection

Containers and microservices have changed the game — and at Elastic we believe implementing container runtime security is essential. We’ve taken a novel approach to simplify container security in our release of Container Workload Protection features.

Elastic Common Schema and OpenTelemetry — A path to better observability and security with no vendor lock-in

Learn how the convergence of Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions will benefit both observability and security practitioners through an industry-wide common schema.

Elastic contributes Elastic Common Schema (ECS) to OpenTelemetry (OTel), helping accelerate adoption of OTel-based observability and security

Elastic Common Schema (ECS), an open source specification, has been accepted by the OpenTelemetry project supporting a common schema for metrics, logs, traces, and events data. Learn how this contribution and OpenTelemetry can help with your observability and security efforts.

Driving intelligence analysis through a transparent and collaborative approach

For years, the prevailing approach to public sector intelligence analysis has been to operate in secrecy. But an approach rooted in transparency, flexibility, and collaboration can offer agencies benefits that are more aligned with their missions.

Flightwatching helps carriers reduce CO2 emissions and save over $100K per aircraft per year, with Elastic

Flightwatching monitors data from 600+ aircrafts on its platform, requiring a solution for storing, searching, analyzing, and creating customer dashboards that have helped boost operational efficiency for its customers.

How to migrate from OpenSearch to Elastic Cloud

Migrating to Elastic Cloud can eliminate the need for organizations to manage their own infrastructure, reducing maintenance costs and increasing uptime. This blog takes you through the pre-requirements and tasks required to perform a migration.

The importance of a unified observability solution in security implementation

A unified observability solution allows organizations to consolidate data sources into a single platform. Learn how it can help security teams view and correlate data from across the entire infrastructure and more quickly respond to incidents.

Elastic wins 2023 Data Breakthrough Award for DataOps Platform of the Year

We are excited to announce that Elastic has been honored with the 2023 Data Breakthrough Award for DataOps Platform of the Year, recognizing the comprehensive capabilities of the Elasticsearch Platform.

Tackling observability in financial services: Panel recap with Société Générale & Microsoft

AI and machine learning are hot topics across industries, but their value within financial services is still being recognized. Artificial intelligence can enable users to perform detections, improve forecasting, and make sense out of mounds of data.

What your co-workers with autistic children want you to know

Supporting our Elasticians that have children with special needs starts with understanding, empathy, and support. Here are a few things to know in order to better understand and support your co-workers who are raising an autistic child.

Modernize your cloud security for AWS with the power of Elastic Security

The speed, scale, and complexity of cloud has made traditional SIEM tools inadequate. Discover how Elastic Security modernizes cloud security operations with a solution that enables your team to protect, investigate, and respond in real-time.

Modernize cloud security, increase observability coverage, and more with Elastic 8.7

Elastic 8.7 features the general availability of cloud workload protection (CWP), time series database (TSDB), and more.

Elastic Observability 8.7: Enhanced observability for synthetic monitoring, serverless functions, and Kubernetes

Elastic Observability 8.7 introduces a new user experience for working with synthetics monitors, distributed tracing for Azure Functions, and monitoring for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot clusters.

More complex queries, anomaly detection, simplified semantic search and onboarding with Elastic 8.7

Accelerate time to value with complex queries in Kibana, suppressing duplicate alerts, detecting change points in signals, and applying semantic search with a single API call. Elastic 8.7 makes SREs and data analysts even more productive!

Elastic Security 8.7 helps security practitioners eliminate alert fatigue, drive MTTR lower, and better secure cloud environments

Elastic Security 8.7 helps security practitioners eliminate alert fatigue, reduce MTTR, and better secure cloud environments through integrated SIEM, cloud security, and endpoint security.

Reduce storage for metrics by 40% and simplified vector search all in 8.7

Elasticsearch 8.7 is packed with new features. Save 40% on metric storage with many features becoming generally available. A new text embedding query vector builder greatly simplifies semantic search and more.

Elastic Enterprise Search 8.7: New connectors, extraction rules for web crawler, and search analytics client beta

Enterprise Search 8.7 improves content ingestion. The MySQL connector adds advanced filtering capabilities, Web Crawler adds custom content extraction, and the connector library adds Postgres, Oracle, MS SQL, and cloud blob storage on GCP and Azure.

Hexagonal spatial analytics in Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch 8.7 can do some very cool geo-spatial aggregations over a hexagonal grid, which has nice advantages over the existing rectangular grid. This feature has been introduced over the last few releases and is now ready for prime time.

NORBr leverages Elastic to keep payments on track and improve key business metrics

NORBr creates the perfect match between digital merchants and payment companies via a no-code routing engine to send transactions to the best-performing payment service providers with Elastic Search.

Amazon Linux 2023 — Flexibility to deploy the Elastic Stack wherever you need

Elastic continues to strengthen our partnership of innovation with AWS to provide options for customers to run the Elastic Stack on the latest operating systems, including Amazon Linux 2023.

Using Elastic to observe GKE Autopilot clusters

See how deploying the Elastic Agent onto a GKE Autopilot cluster makes observing the cluster’s behavior easy. Kibana integrations make visualizing the behavior a simple addition to your observability dashboards.

Insights into chess game trends: A detailed look at Lichess data

This is the second blog post in a series of ones to follow. We will take a look at chess game trends using Lichess data.

Demystifying SIEM migration: Pitfalls to avoid and tips for ensuring success

Migrating to a new SIEM can feel like a daunting task. This blog identifies steps you can take to reduce the pain typically associated with a migration, tools that can help along the way, and questions you should ask during each phase of a migration.

Embracing equity, crafting your career path, and other lessons from women at Elastic

As part of our efforts to increase equity, we share the stories of Elasticians who identify as women. In honor of International Women’s Day, let’s revisit some of the powerful and inspiring stories.

Elastic announces 2022 Elastic Excellence Awards winners

We’re proud to announce the 2022 Elastic Excellence Awards winners! These awards recognize the Elastic Certified Professional of the Year and organizations whose Elastic use cases help improve the world, transform business, and solve data problems.

Importing 4 billion chess games with speed and scale using Elasticsearch and Universal Profiling

This is the first blog post in a series of ones to follow. We will use Elastic APM and Universal Profiling to solve performance problems that can occur when importing chess game data using a custom Python application.

What the public sector can learn from CDM’s data strategy

Find out what public sector organizations, and even private sector companies, can learn from CDM’s centralized data strategy and its impact on detecting and remediating cyber threats.

Why metrics, logs, and traces aren’t enough

The increasing complexity of cloud-native environments has led to a growing need for unified observability solutions. And metrics, logs, and traces are not enough. Learn why continuous profiling signals are a must-have in your observability toolbox.

Explaining anomalies detected by Elastic machine learning

A new feature in Elastic 8.6 offers a more detailed view into the anomaly detection scoring model. It explains the factors that influence the specific anomaly scores in your data.

3 essential async patterns for building a Python service

This blog post presents three useful reusable patterns to apply when implementing a service in asynchronous Python.

The Elastic Guide to: Distributed Work

How exactly does a distributed company work? Because we’ve been doing this long before distributed work became cool, we have some tips and tricks that make it easier for everyone to stay connected and perform their best work.

Elastic joins AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights to streamline risk assessment and software procurement

Deploying Elastic Cloud on AWS has never been easier. AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights helps you streamline your risk assessment process and fast-track your journey to the cloud.

Parsing and enriching log data for troubleshooting in Elastic Observability

A look at the importance of schemas and runtime fields for data queries and data exploration on the Elastic Platform. By using schema on read and schema on write, you can optimize your telemetry data for both performance and analytics as needed.

Elastic Security 8.6 improves investigation and response across a unified SIEM, endpoint security, and cloud security solution

Elastic Security 8.6 helps security practitioners investigate and respond to threats quickly at cloud scale with SIEM, cloud security, and endpoint security. It includes new data sources, expanded detection content, and improved SOC workflows.

Elastic Enterprise Search 8.6: Reduce time to relevant search results — for file systems, MongoDB, and Amazon S3

Elastic Enterprise Search 8.6 brings new connectors and tools to reduce the time to relevant search results for content on file systems, network drives, MongoDB, and Amazon S3.

Elastic Stack & Cloud 8.6: Vector search, alerting and cases, metrics indices enhancements

Elastic Stack 8.6 delivers significant savings on metrics storage. Enhancements make vector search easier and more compact. Take action faster with ad hoc data views, more alerting and case management capabilities, and an Opsgenie connector.

Elastic Observability 8.6: Maximizing operational efficiencies with improved application analysis and workflow integrations

Elastic Observability 8.6 introduces new host observability and application dependency operations views, providing key insights into complex, distributed environments. In addition, the connector for OpsGenie is now generally available.

3 cybersecurity strategies for healthcare leaders in a digital-first world

Cybersecurity is an imperative in today's healthcare. Find out how Elastic Security and Proficio can bring the best of security solutions and managed security services, empowering healthcare companies to improve patient care.

Elastic Stack 8.5.3 released

Read about the updates and bug fixes that have been included in this release.

How Universal Profiling unwinds stacks without frame pointers and symbols

Learn how universal profiling and Elastic Observability enables you to unwind stacks without symbols or frame pointers for frictionless, low overhead system profiling.

Elastic named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM 2022 Vendor Assessment

Elastic is named a major Player in the 2022 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide SIEM Software.

5 questions public sector leaders should be asking about their data

Government agencies and educational institutions are accelerating their move toward cloud, SaaS, and customer-first digital experiences. The common denominator of all these initiatives? Data.

CEO Ash Kulkarni's email to Elastic employees

Today, I have the sad responsibility to announce we are reducing our team by about 13%.

ERGs encourage you to come as you are: Meet ElastAsians

Employee resource groups, or Elastician resource groups as we call them, are groups within Elastic that are aligned with shared identities, experiences, interests, affinities, and allyships.

How to import Strava data into the Elastic Stack

This is the first blog post in a series of ones to follow. I will take you through a journey of data onboarding, manipulation, and visualization using Strava as a backdrop.

Wait… Elastic Observability monitors metrics for AWS services in just minutes?

Get metrics and logs from your AWS deployment and Elastic Observability in just minutes! We’ll show you how to use Elastic integrations to quickly monitor and manage the performance of your applications and AWS services to streamline troubleshooting.

Elastic Stack 8.5.2 released

Read about the updates and bug fixes that have been included in this release.

How the UK government can continue to innovate while reducing tech costs

As the UK government braces for budget cuts, IT teams don't have to sacrifice innovation. Here are a few ways that departments can continue to pursue their digital transformation goals while also reducing costs via a unified data platform.

2022 Elastic Global Threat Report: Helping security leaders navigate today’s threat landscape

A significant percentage of all cyber threats achieve a degree of success against technical, procedural, and human mitigations. So what is a company to do in the face of such unfavorable odds? Find out in this article.

Independence with OpenTelemetry on Elastic

OpenTelemetry has become a key component for observability given its open standards and developer-friendly tools. See how easily Elastic Observability integrates with OTel to provide a platform that minimizes vendor lock-in and maximizes flexibility.

How to make progress on managing unstructured data

A conversation between guest Forrester Consulting and Elastic explores how applying search-powered technology to unify, visualize, and scale data can enable organizations to be more insights-driven.

Elastic’s 2022 Global Threat Report: A roadmap for navigating today’s growing threatscape

Threat intelligence resources like the 2022 Elastic Global Threat Report are critical to helping teams evaluate their organizational visibility, capabilities, and expertise in identifying and preventing cybersecurity threats.

Forecast and Recommendations: 2022 Elastic Global Threat Report

With the release of our first Global Threat Report at Elastic, customers, partners, and the security community at large are able to identify many of the focus areas our team has had over the past 12 months.

Elastic Stack 8.5.1 released

Read about the updates and bug fixes that have been included in this release.

5 reasons IT leaders need vector search to improve search experiences

Meet customer demands with vector search — faster search powered by machine learning. Learn 5 reasons why vector search can make a difference for your business and improve your search experience.

Elastic at AWS re:Invent 2022

AWS re:Invent 2022 — Stop by Elastic booth #3004 or attend an Elastic speaking session. Learn about our new search, observability, and security capabilities and vision for a serverless Elasticsearch.

K-12 schools are struggling with cybersecurity — Here’s how a SIEM can help

As K-12 school districts in the U.S. look to purchase a SIEM to meet cyber insurance companies’ requirements, make sure you’re getting the most possible value out of your purchase.

How to leverage big healthcare data to improve consumers’ lives

In this post, we share our Ansible-based automated deployment and configuration solution for ELK which powers real-time internal search capabilities at Carelon and helps the organization improve consumers’ health and wellbeing.

Why I consolidated my IT and cybersecurity operations in the cloud

Taming the complexity of application growth to drive efficiency and manage uncertainty in a difficult economic climate.

How I used Elastic Maps to plan my cycling trip and find unique roads

Learn how one Elastician used Elastic Maps to build a dashboard to visualize a week-long cycling trip roadmap with unique routes.

Elastic Enterprise Search 8.5: Machine learning for intuitive search experiences

Elastic Enterprise Search 8.5 brings powerful machine learning and ingestion-time workflows to any dataset.

Managing your Kubernetes cluster with Elastic Observability

Unify all of your Kubernetes metrics, log, and trace data on a single platform and dashboard, Elastic. From the infrastructure to the application layer Elastic Observability makes it easier for you to understand how your cluster is performing.

Build robust search experiences, reduce time to observability, and streamline security workflows with Elastic 8.5

Elastic 8.5 introduces a set of new capabilities to the Elastic Search Platform. Learn how you can search smarter using vector search with hybrid ranking, gain complete visibility into your entire .NET application ecosystem in minutes, and more.

Elastic Security furthers unification of SIEM and on-host protection with XDR, cloud, and endpoint security

Elastic 8.5 introduces a broad new set of capabilities in Elastic Security including Cloud Security features going to General Availability, Output functionality in Workloads, One Click Risk Score, Case Assignments and many more.

Elastic Stack & Cloud 8.5: AIOps, collaboration, vector search GA, and more

Elastic Stack 8.5 has more ways to collaborate and annotate, plus root cause analysis for AIOps. Unlock new potential with vector search using HNSW (now GA). For cloud deployments, leverage simplified health monitoring to get up and running, fast.

Announcing general availability of Elastic APM .NET agent profiler auto-instrumentation

In 8.5, we are releasing the auto-instrumentation capability, which allows the .NET APM agent to automatically instrument .NET Framework, .NET Core, and .NET applications without requiring code changes or recompilation.

Tracking peak time for trick-or-treaters in Kibana

We all have fond memories of dressing up in costumes and trick-or-treating. Have you ever wondered when the peak time for trick-or-treating is? Learn how to ingest data and build visualizations with Kibana to show when to expect trick-or-treaters.

A Sip of Elastic RUM (Real User Monitoring)

Elastic APM real user monitoring (RUM) captures user interactions with browsers. We will instrument an application with a React frontend and a Spring Boot backend using the RUM and Java agents. Together, they provide a holistic view of application performance from an end user perspective through distributed tracing.

How CIOs can support business resilience in uncertain times

The way technology leaders invest and plan today will determine the trajectory of your organization for the next half-decade, or more. Here's how to ensure you’re positioning your organization for resilience.

Why observability can break through top challenges to digital transformation

Monitoring, machine learning, and visualizations are a game changer for telling the story of systems across your organization.

Five signs you need to augment your SIEM

If you aren’t able to replace your existing SIEM outright, that doesn’t mean you can’t supplement its capabilities with a more performant solution. Elastic allows all users to try out a new, powerful SIEM with little to no upfront cost.

Sneak Peek: Elastic’s 2022 Global Threat Report

Elastic Security Labs has compiled the 2022 Global Threat Report to share trends and tactics adversaries and attack groups use, as observed by our threat research team and broader user community over the past year.

Someone Like Me: David Pilato reflects on 9 years at Elastic and why you need to step outside your comfort zone

David’s been a part of Elastic for more than nine years now—and he’s learned a lot along the way. Read his advice for finding confidence, getting out of your comfort zone, and boosting your career.

Elastic continues to gain momentum in SIEM market

Gartner SIEM MQ - Elastic has successfully delivered a leading Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) offering with only two years in the market.

The art of the possible: Arming U.S. veterans with knowledge

Elastic can help us understand the data that impacts our daily lives and guides our decisions. Learn how one Elastic employee transformed data into something that provides invaluable insight and answers common questions in the veteran community.

The evolution of Discover in Kibana

Discover has been around for quite some time in Kibana. But recently, we've added a new document table, field statistics, and the ability to create threshold alert rules.

By the numbers: Public sector organizations quantify the benefits of Elastic solutions

To help public sector organizations better understand how their peers are using Elastic and what results they’re seeing, we partnered with Socratic Technologies to manage and analyze a survey of our public sector and education customers.

The automotive landscape is transforming — how can industry leaders stay ahead of the curve?

The digital transformation process in the automotive industry has already begun. With the current macroeconomic headwinds, find out how automakers, OEMs, and suppliers can be successful in overcoming those speed bumps.

Elastic and Google Cloud announce expanded and deeper partnership

We’re pleased to share that Elastic and Google Cloud are expanding and deepening our partnership to help organizations search, observe, and protect their data and workloads on Google Cloud.

How to add a store locator to your ecommerce storefront with Elastic

See how to add a physical store locator, complete with maps, on your ecommerce storefront with Elastic Enterprise Search. This step-by-step post includes code samples and a code sandbox for you to try it out.

Managing data automation through hot, warm, cold, and frozen tiers — No coding needed!

This post serves as a guide on how to use Kibana's “Stack Management” feature-set to automate the movement of your data through hot, warm, cold and frozen tiers, without the need to do any coding or execute command-line actions.

Maximizing the experience of Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes with Azure Kubernetes Service

Elastic on Azure allows you to harness your data to better understand customers, refine operations, and develop trusted long-term relationships.

Spotlight on support: Elastic's support team treats one another—and its customers—like humans

Support teams are the unsung heroes who keep customers happy and help them to get the most out of a product. Learn more about our team of support engineers and how they marry excellent customer service skills with product expertise.

Research is key to a strong cybersecurity program

Cybersecurity research sets organizations apart. How can you integrate it into your program?

How to leverage RSS feeds to inform the possibilities with Elastic Stack

There are several ways to consolidate RSS feeds. Learn how we built an Elastic-based Open Source Intelligence Tool (OSINT).

How to configure Auth0 SSO with Elastic Cloud

We will look at integrating identity services provider Auth0 with Elastic Cloud and enabling the social login on Kibana, so that you can log in to Kibana with your Gmail, GitHub, or Microsoft account without creating any additional credentials.

Unleash your data’s power to ensure reliability and cybersecurity

Magnify the business impact of your data by consolidating platforms with search-powered technology.

Key Strategies for CIOs to safely and smartly move to the cloud and speed digital transformation

Cloud adoption in the financial, insurance, manufacturing, and public sectors need not be slowed down by outmoded thinking.

Increase the velocity of your digital transformation through search-powered tech

Organizations in the midst of digital transformation are dealing with huge amounts of data. Data quality, access, and usability can improve with the help of search-powered technology.

Beat the holiday rush with Elastic Observability

Surviving Black Friday, Cyber Weekend, and the holiday rush as an online retailer has never been more challenging or more important. But Elastic Observability and Consulting can help you breathe a bit easier and keep your business humming.

Want a career in developer advocacy? Alexis Roberson's story will inspire you to apply

Alexis Roberson started her career in technology because of a challenge from a college professor. Now she's a developer advocate on Elastic’s community team. Read her story.

Elastic Stack 8.4.2 released

Read about the updates and bug fixes that have been included in this release.

Using Elasticsearch pinned queries to promote specific results

A practical overview of how to use pinned queries in Elasticsearch to promote specific results from your data.

How IT leaders build more proactive organizations using observability

Mining performance data for insights can be the difference-maker in positive business outcomes

What is AIOps? A beginner's guide

AIOps has become an increasingly important consideration for operations teams. With the rapidly increasing volume of metrics, logs, and traces, operations teams are increasingly relying on machine learning driven AI to analyze data and reduce noise.

ERGs encourage you to come as you are: Meet Elasticians Unidos

September 15 through October 15 is Hispanic Heritage month—or as we like to call it, Elasticians Unidos Month. Learn more about how we're celebrating the month with our Elasticians Unidos ERG.

Key to reducing cybersecurity risk: search-powered technology

Cybersecurity was the top business priority organizations used search-powered technology for today, according to a study conducted by Forrester Consulting, commissioned by Elastic.

Announcing a new streamlined sign-up experience for Elastic Cloud on AWS Marketplace

Elastic and AWS have collaborated to accelerate results that matter through a streamlined sign-up experience for Elastic on AWS Marketplace.

A cyber summer: Students experience Elastic during IU OmniSOC Cybersecurity Summer Internship Program

As a proud sponsor of the Indiana University OmniSOC Cyber Security Summer Internship program, read about how Elastic helps students not only learn about Elastic Security but experience it through interactive training and workshops.

Elastic provides the foundation for the DoD’s pillars of Zero Trust Networking

For most public sector organizations, especially the U.S. Department of Defense, enacting a strong Zero Trust security strategy is critical. Learn how Elastic Security provides the foundation for the fundamental pillars of a Zero Trust architecture.

Meet our 7 ERGs who are building communities at Elastic

Employee resource groups build a sense of community and belonging, provide an inclusive space for people with similar experiences, empower employees to share their voice, and amplify our DEI initiatives. Here’s a bit about each one.

Introduction to custom machine learning models and maps

Learn how to run custom machine learning models to extract location information from text-based datasets and plot it on a map.

What are Elastic Security capabilities in the cloud — and how do they drive results?

There are many benefits to conducting security operations on a cloud-based platform. In this post, we’ll cover a few of the benefits Elastic Security for Cloud users experience, and how you can take advantage of an Elastic Cloud deployment yourself.

How Elastic’s Tiffany Witwer Built a Career from Civil Engineering to Customer Success

With an overall positive outlook on life, Tiffany brings that same energy to her customers at work as the Head of Customer Success for Elastic. Tiffany shares her career journey from civil engineering to customer success.

APM correlations in Elastic Observability: Automatically identifying probable causes of slow or failed transactions

An overview on how Elastic Observability and APM correlations can help diagnose and troubleshoot application issues. We will cover a real-life application issue and review some other common scenarios where APM is commonly used by developers, SREs and DevOps teams.

Detection engineering — Maximizing analyst efficiency using Cardinality Threshold rules on your alerts

Using Threshold rules to create alerts on your alerts is a great way to maximize your analyst effectiveness without sacrificing visibility. By using these rules, security analysts spend less time investigating false positives.

Why CISOs are the new champions of insurance transformation

Security will be top of mind for any insurance digital transformation effort. CISOs can therefore set best practices and implement new tools and processes that drive greater comfort for the company, clients, partners, and regulators.

Elastic Cloud price change to create alignment across purchasing options

Elastic Cloud pricing is changing to simplify and bring parity across Direct and Marketplace prices. Customers will pay the same price for Elastic Cloud whether they purchase from Elastic or their preferred Cloud Service Provider’s marketplace.