Historically, Elasticsearch has relied on a schema on write approach to make searching data fast. We are now adding schema on read capabilities to Elasticsearch so that users have the flexibility to alter a document's schema after ingest and also generate fields that exist only as part of the search query. Together, schema on read and schema on write provides users with the choice to balance performance and flexibility based on their needs. Our solution for schema on read is runtime fields, whic
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of alerting in the Elastic Stack with the release of 7.11. With deep integrations throughout our products and solutions, a laser focus on distinguishing signal from noise, and tie-ins to the third-party platforms you depend on like email, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Teams, building, using, and acting on alerts in Elastic has never been more powerful. To get hands on with alerting in the Elastic Stack, spin up a free cloud trial of Ela
In 7.11, we’re excited to announce support for schema on read in the Elastic Stack. We now offer the best of both worlds on a single platform — the performance and scale of the existing schema on write mechanism that our users love and depend on, coupled with a new level of flexibility for defining and executing queries with schema on read. We call our implementation of schema on read runtime fields. Runtime fields enable you to create and query fields that are evaluated only at query time. Inst
We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of Elastic 7.11. This release brings a broad set of new capabilities to our Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, which are built into the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch and Kibana. This release enables customers to optimize for cost, performance, insight, and flexibility with the general availability of searchable snapshots and the beta of schema on read. The beta of a new web crawler in Elastic Enterprise Searc
We’re fast approaching the Elastic Community Conference (ElasticCC) which takes place on February 26 through February 27 (for APJ time zones). If you didn’t see the official announcement, ElasticCC is a free technical conference that’s from the community, for the community. We’re welcoming developers, practitioners, customers and partners to join us — there will be a little bit of everything, for everyone, presented by Elasticians and members of the Elastic community just like you. Wherever you
Over the years, the Elastic community has created over 90 Beats, shared use case tutorials like those from Audi, T-Mobile, and P&G, and presented at hundreds upon hundreds of meetups. We created the Elastic Contributor Program, which launched globally in September 2020, to recognize and reward the hard work of our awesome contributors, encourage knowledge sharing within the Elastic community, and build friendly competition around contributions. And now we’re excited to announce the launch of the
WaKED-CO (Watch of Knowledge on Emergent Diseases COVID-19) is an initiative launched in record time — deployed just a month after developing a prototype — under the leadership of the health service within the Ministry of Armed Forces in France. The project had one core mission: to make it easier to research the literature around the COVID-19 crisis. To achieve this mission, the initiative had two priorities: first, to be able to track the rapid evolution of the epidemic and the scientific progr
In this post, we’ll show how you can secure your Elastic Enterprise Search deployment by using a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) identity provider (IdP) — in this case, we’ll be using Okta — for cross-domain, single sign-on authentication. IdPs are responsible for confirming that a user is who they say are, and then sending that data (and the user’s access rights) to a service provider — in this case to Elastic. Get your cluster going with SAML on Elastic CloudTo get started, you’ll ne
This post is a recap of a presentation given at ElasticON 2020. Interested in seeing more talks like this? Check out the conference archive. Network infrastructure is the engine that drives a company’s business. As companies scale, assets that compose this infrastructure become more complex to manage. That means there’s more hardware, more software, and more subscriptions and services that require tracking. It’s critical that IT managers and network administrators have complete accounting of the
As a security analyst on Elastic’s InfoSec team, a common scenario we see is users coming to our team and asking: “Is this file safe to open?” Or one user reports a phishing email with an attachment that they didn’t open, but we see from the logs that 10 other users also received that email but didn’t report it and no alerts went off on their systems. A common attack we see is phishing emails containing attachments that do not contain malicious code and thus do not set off any alerts, but they a