After a year of accelerated change in the federal industry, the Federal Public Sector event focused on the progress you’ve made, the trends demanding your attention, and the Elastic capabilities that continue to guide federal agencies, offices, and departments towards a search-enabled future. With a theme of Accelerate the mission. Start with search, the ElasticON US Federal event centered around some key takeaways:
Data volumes will increase regardless of the size, scape, or 
In a recent post we showed you how to get started with the free and open tier of Elastic Observability. Today we'll walk through what you need to do to expand your deployment so you can start gathering metrics from application performance monitoring (APM), or "tracing" data in your observability cluster, for free. What is APM?Application performance monitoring lets you see where your applications spend their time, what they are doing, what other applications or services they are calling, and wha
Last week we covered the essentials of event logging: Ensuring that all your systems are writing logs about the important events or activities occurring on them. This week we will cover the essentials of centrally collecting these Event Logs on a Window Event Collector (WEC) server, which then forwards all logs to Elastic Security. WEF and WEC Modern versions of Windows include the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) services that implement the WS-Management (WSman) protocol, and just to add to t
What does a career journey into the inside sales team look like at Elastic? We talked to two of our own — Tom Wilde and Jan Kumorowicz — about moving from user success manager roles into cloud sales, and what it’s like to be at the start of a customer’s journey.Tom Wilde, inside cloud account executiveAfter about two years as a user success manager, I began to master the art of outbound sales — cold calling potential enterprise customers, working to find new leads via LinkedIn, and having proof-
Log exploration and analysis is a key step in troubleshooting performance issues in IT environments — from understanding application slow downs to investigating misbehaving containers. Did you get an alert that heap usage is spiking on a specific server? A quick search of the logs filtered from that host shows that cache misses started around the same time as the initial spike. Digging into the metadata (date and version) of the highlighted logs from that time period show us that this was likely
Launched in May 2020, the Elastic for students and educators program provides the resources and support necessary to bring our products and solutions into classrooms around the world. Whether it’s through provisioning Elastic Cloud accounts for students to use during their course, extending access to premium features like machine learning to propel research, or working with universities to design partnership programs to help prepare students for their future careers, Elastic is committ
Version 7.12.1 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. The 7.12.1 patch contains fixes and small enhancements for the stack. Notable bug fixes are:
Kibana does not recognize a valid geo_shape index when attempting to create a Tracking Containment alert. (#95418 Kibana fails to update or delete sessions in non-default space (#96124\
For a full list of changes for each product, please refer to the release notes: 7.12.1 Release Notes Elastic Stack
Hiya! With Elastic’s expansion of our Elasticsearch Service Cloud offering and automated onboarding, we’ve expanded the Elastic Stack audience from full ops teams to data engineers, security teams, and consultants. As an Elastic support rep, I’ve enjoyed interacting with more user backgrounds and with even wider use cases. With a wider audience, I’m seeing more questions about managing resource allocation, in particular the mystical shard-heap ratio and avoiding circuit breakers. I get it!
Alibaba Cloud is an important partner to us here at Elastic. We officially started our collaboration and strategic partnership with Alibaba Cloud back in 2017, when we announced the Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch service. Since then, we’ve seen rapid adoption and growth of the service, which now supports more than 10 petabytes of data. This year, we’ve recognized Alibaba Cloud as our Ecosystem Partner of the Year to acknowledge their contributions in advocating for free and open technology and deve
One of the most prevalent log sources in many enterprises is Windows Event Logs. Being able to collect and process these logs has a huge impact on the effectiveness of any cybersecurity team. In this multi-part blog series, we will be looking at all things related to Windows Event Logs. We will begin our journey with audit policies and generating event logs, then move through collecting and analysing logs, and finally to building use cases such as detection rules, reports, and more. The purpose