
Elasticsearch's date_histogram aggregation is the cornerstone of Kibana's Discover. And the Logs Monitoring UI. I use it all the time to investigate trends in build failures, but when it is slow I get cranky. Four seconds to graph all of the failures of some test over the past six months! I don't have time for that! Who is going to give me my four seconds back?! So I spent the past six months speeding it up. On and off. Round with our bare handsBack at the dawn of time (2018) there was a bug, "t

This post is a recap of a presentation given at ElasticON 2020. Interested in seeing more talks like this? Check out the conference archive. Shell International knows that it takes cutting-edge technology to thrive in the competitive, global energy industry. With projects around the world, in both renewable and non-renewable energy, Shell must always have insights into the future. From determining expected output to predicting equipment failures, there's no room for guessing in an industry where

If you’ve read anything about our culture as a distributed company, or seen other articles about roles at Elastic such as what it’s like in Sales Development or Field Operations, you know we do things a little bit different from the rest.The way we do Elastic Support is no different. Support is offered at various levels of subscriptions, but no matter your level, our support team is curious and works hard to provide solutions to the most unique use cases.To give potential Elasticians out there i

When performing critical security investigations and threat hunts using Elastic Security, the Timeline feature is always by your side as a workspace for investigations and threat hunting. Drilling down into an event is as simple as dragging and dropping to create the query you need to investigate an alert or event. Persisting as you move throughout the Elastic Security app, you can add items from tables and histograms on the Overview, Detections, Hosts, and Network pages — as well as from w

With Elastic App Search, you can add scalable, relevant search experiences to all your apps and websites. It offers a host of search result personalization options out of the box, such as weights and boosts and curations. You could also add a these documents might interest you feature, which would surface additional content for users, similar to documents they’ve previously searched for. This post walks you through the process of creating this capability using the robust App Search APIs.
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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 want to highlight some of our globally distributed user group organizers to get to know them better, learn 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 sho

Want to create a map of where your users are? With the GeoIP processor, you can easily attach the location of your users to your user metrics. Right out of the box, Kibana can map this traffic immediately by country or country subdivision:
Plus, the new User Experience app for Elastic APM automatically creates maps based on monitoring data:
But what if you want to take this one step further and create maps with different regions? Custom regions: metro area, proximity to IKEA, anything..

We've had a few questions about our recent license change to Elasticsearch and Kibana, and while we’ve been updating our FAQ, we wanted to clarify who is affected by this change:
Our on-prem or Elastic Cloud customers will not be impacted.
The vast majority of our users will not be impacted.
The folks who take our products and sell them directly as a service will be impacted, such as the Amazon Elasticsearch Service.
If you're using the products or building an application on top of Elastic

Version 7.10.2 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. The 7.10.2 patch contains fixes and small enhancements for the stack. 7.10.2 Release Notes Elastic Stack
Elasticsearch Kibana Beats Logstash
Elastic Enterprise Search
Workplace Search App Search
Elastic Observability
APM
Elastic Cloud
ECE 2.7.1 ECK 1.3.1

Upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and KibanaWe are moving our Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License, giving users the choice of which license to apply. This license change ensures our community and customers have free and open access to use, modify, redistribute, and collaborate on the code. It also protects our continued investment in developing products that we distribute for fre