Elastic Cloud is now available on Microsoft Azure in East US (Virginia)

We’re pleased to announce you can now run Elastic Cloud on Microsoft Azure in the East US (Virginia) region. Elastic Cloud gives you the power of enterprise search, observability, and security in the East US (Virginia) region of Azure. Easily search applications, websites, and workplace content platforms for information. Quickly gain deep insights into your environment by monitoring applications and uptime as well as analyzing centralized logs and metrics. You can also help protect your technolo

Leadership @ Elastic | Hendrik Haas on growth potential

In our Leadership @ Elastic blog series, we highlight the innovative thinking behind the action at Elastic — from making distributed work, work, to better enabling the next phase of our progress through consistency, forward-thinking, and collaboration. In this edition, we hear from Hendrik Haas, regional vice president of central Europe enterprise sales.What do you like to do in your spare time?I like to spend a lot of time with my wife and two kids. My daughter is 16, and my son is 19.I also lo

Community organizer spotlight - April 2021

Community is at the heart of everything we do at Elastic, and we wouldn’t be able to have such a vibrant and active community without our user group organizers. Each month we highlight some of our globally distributed user group organizers to learn more about their Elastic stories and understand their motivation for being involved in the Elastic community. We’ll also highlight any tips they can share for hosting successful meetups.This month, we are delighted to showcase a few of our organizers

Discover in Kibana uses the fields API in 7.12

With Elastic 7.12, Discover now uses the fields API by default. Reading from _source is still supported through a switch in the Advanced Settings. This change stems from updates made to Elasticsearch in 7.11 with the extension of the Search API to include the new fields parameter. When using the new search parameter, both a document’s raw source and the index mappings to load and return values are used. Because it makes use of the mappings, fields has some advantages over referencing the _source

Time-based scaling of Enterprise Search on Elastic Cloud

Does your Elastic Enterprise Search Cloud deployment follow a predictable usage pattern? You can automatically scale up and down your deployment on a schedule to achieve optimal performance and reduce operating costs. In this article we show you how to use the Elastic Cloud API to change how many Enterprise Search nodes you’re running. We call these APIs from a cron job to achieve hands-free, time-triggered autoscaling. And for a comprehensive scaling strategy, you can combine the time-based sca

Getting Started with Elastic Cloud: A FedRAMP Authorized Service

Elastic Cloud is available for US government users and partners who want to harness the power of enterprise search, observability, and security to make mission-critical decisions.   Elastic Cloud is FedRAMP authorized at Moderate Impact level so federal organizations and other customers in highly regulated environments can quickly and easily search their applications, data, and infrastructure for information, analyze data to observe insights, and protect their technology investment.&nb

Introducing Amazon EC2 D3 instances for warm and cold tiers in Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud

We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon EC2 D3 instances in Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud. The Amazon D family of instances is the underlying infrastructure for our warm and cold data tiers in Elasticsearch Service deployments running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). D3 instances are now powering all new warm and cold nodes in our largest AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), and Europe (Ireland). As AWS makes D3 instances available in more re

Someone Like Me | Dasha Wessely on work and activism

We all want to work for a company where we fit in. That’s why Elastic built a Source Code that encourages all to come as they are. In the Someone Like Me blog series, we highlight Elasticians who have a unique story — one, perhaps, just as unique as yours.

In this edition, we meet Dasha Wessely, user success manager at Elastic, who shares a bit about her experiences growing up in Belarus, activism in Munich, and how Elastic allows her to bring her authentic self to work.

How long have

Detecting rare and unusual processes with Elastic machine learning

In SecOps, knowing which host processes are normally executed and which are rarely seen helps cut through the noise to quickly locate potential problems or security threats. By focusing attention on rare anomalies, security teams can be more efficient when trying to detect or hunt for potential threats. Finding a process that doesn’t often run on a server can sometimes indicate innocuous activity or could be an indication of something more alarming. It is important to not only have a methodical

Elastic Cares: Pandemic challenges to goodness engagement and what we learned

As part of Women’s History Month, we’re focusing on the women who make Elastic, Elastic, and how we #ChooseToChallenge representation within tech. So far, Leah Sutton, SVP of Human Resources, discussed the many initiatives at Elastic that encourage better representation for women and nonbinary people throughout the business, and also shared some thoughts from leadership on redefining the way Elastic does business. Elastic Cares is a small but powerful team of four women who empower Elastic teams


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