Operations and SRE teams often rely on HashiCorp Terraform to safely manage production-related infrastructure using methodologies such as infrastructure as code, which allows you to apply peer-reviewed infrastructure changes in an automated and controlled fashion. We’re expanding our partnership with HashiCorp, a leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software, to offer a verified Terraform provider — bringing you the best possible infrastructure-as-code experience when you use Terrafor
De Watergroep is responsible for the supply of water to more than 3 million customers and hundreds of companies in Belgium. An organisation operating in the public sector, De Watergroep's main goal is to continuously ensure the availability of high-quality drinking water. De Watergroep also is constantly engaged in technological innovation, focusing on keeping distribution costs low, and making maintenance more cost efficient. A frontrunner in digitizing its business operations, De Watergroep is
Why OpenTelemetry? Open Telemetry represents an effort to combine distributed tracing, metrics and logging into a single set of system components and language-specific libraries. Recently, OpenTelemetry became a CNCF incubating project, but it already enjoys quite a significant community and vendor support. OpenTelemetry defines itself as “an observability framework for cloud-native software”, although it should be able to cover more than what we know as “cloud-native software”. Quoting its mi
Ensuring a seamless customer experience is a growing challenge for digital technology providers. Yet, as functionality and a customer base scale, predictability can become challenging. At Smarter City Solutions, which provides tens of thousands of drivers in Australia and New Zealand real-time parking related services through the flagship Smarter Parking Platform, our engineering team faced this challenge when scaling from a few deployments to dozens. Whether it was a scaling issue in infr
Secure your deployments on Elastic Cloud with Google Cloud Private Service Connect We are pleased to announce the general availability of the Google Cloud Private Service Connect integration with Elastic Cloud. Elastic Cloud VPC connectivity is now available to all customers across all subscription tiers and cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud). Private Service Connect allows you to create private and secure connections from your clients running in your Google Cl
The Elastic Infosec Detections and Analytics team is responsible for building, tuning, and maintaining the security detections used to protect all Elastic systems. Within Elastic we call ourselves Customer Zero and we strive to always use the newest versions of our products. In this series of blog posts we will provide an overview of our architecture, what data we send to our clusters, how and why we use Cross Cluster Search with the Security and Machine Learning (ML) applications, and h
A modified version of this blog post appeared in the August 2021 issue of Signal magazine. As the Industrial Age Army transforms to the Information Age Army, Army leadership recognizes the need for adaptable technologies that enable data exchange at the tactical edge. Not only must these technologies be in lock step with the 8 guiding principles of the DoD Data Strategy, but they must also deliver on the Army’s data imperatives of speed, scale and resilience. At Elastic, our role is to help comm
Version 7.14.1 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. The 7.14.1 patch contains fixes and small enhancements for the stack. One notable change in Elasticsearch fixes a memory leak that may have affected CCR users: Fix memory/breaker leaks for outbound responses #76474 For a full list of changes for each product, please refer to the release notes: 7.14.1 Release Notes Elastic Stack
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According to FBI Director, Christopher Wray, when it comes to ransomware disruption and prevention, “...there’s a shared responsibility, not just across government agencies but across the private sector and even the average American.” At Elastic, we’re here to help state and local governments. Ransomware attacks cost the U.S. government more than $18.9 billion in 2020 alone. By taking a proactive security approach, state and local IT teams can make damage from ransomware a thing of the pas
Elastic on Elastic The Elastic Infosec Detections and Analytics team is responsible for building, tuning, and maintaining the security detections used to protect all Elastic systems. Within Elastic we call ourselves Customer Zero and we strive to always use the newest versions of our products. In this series of blog posts we will provide an overview of our architecture, what data we send to our clusters, how and why we use Cross Cluster Search (CCS) with the Security and Machine Learn