While the 7.x minors keep delivering feature after feature, we are thrilled to announce the first public alpha of 8.0.0. Before we continue with this exciting news, we want to remind you that this is an alpha version. We recommend that you keep it an arm's length from production. There is no guarantee that 8.0.0-alpha1 will be compatible with other preview releases or with 8.0.0 general availability (GA). Also, 8.0.0-alpha1 will not be available on Elastic Cloud. But, we expect to make a preview
Software engineers cite constant distractions, long commute times, and a lack of flexibility as the biggest challenges of working in an office setting, according to an internal employee survey conducted by the Elastic Culture team. But the survey also revealed that the biggest benefits of a distributed environment could be the new opportunities it opens for employees — for example, the freedom to catch some waves during the workday. As Elastic offices slowly begin to reopen worldwide in accordan
Elastic received honors from two key partners, Microsoft and Google — a recognition of our efforts to ensure that customers can easily find and use Elastic products in the environments that best suit their needs. Elastic was named the 2021 Microsoft US Partner Award Winner in Business Excellence in the Commercial Marketplace. In addition, for the second year in a row, Elastic was selected by Google Cloud as the 2020 Technology Partner of the Year for Data Management. We understand that more
Today, we are happy to announce three major improvements that will make it easier to integrate your systems and applications with the Elastic Stack. First, we are launching the generally available (GA) release of our Elastic Agent, which is a single, unified agent for both observability and security. A unified agent will simplify data onboarding with fewer things to configure and install. Second, we are launching the GA release of Fleet, a new Kibana app that lets you centrally manage an entire
Elasticsearch 7.14 introduces match_only_text, a new field type that can be used as a drop-in replacement for the text field type in logging use cases with a much lower disk footprint, leading to lower costs. Elasticsearch is attractive for log analysis thanks to its ability to index log messages. Want to count how many log messages contain access denied in the last 24 hours? Elasticsearch can give you the answer in milliseconds thanks to its index structures — but index structures take CPU
Elastic Security's newest features define the potential of XDR for cybersecurity teams. Our single platform brings together SIEM and endpoint security, allowing users to ingest and retain large volumes of data from diverse sources, store and search data for longer, and augment threat hunting with detections and machine learning.Security vendors are using the term “XDR” with increasing frequency, applying varied definitions to suit their respective technologies. The term began as an evo
We’re pleased to announce When searching data, “where” is a common and important question. Whether you’re trying to identify whether an outage is a local or global issue, locating adversaries attacking your network, or simply tracking where your food delivery is, Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack can answer the “where” questions with geospatial data. Elasticsearch 7.14 includes several updates that make the Elastic Stack even more of a geospatial powerhouse. Query geo shapes by height,
Kibana 7.14 introduces more capabilities for ad hoc analytics to enable users to cut through the noise and discover insights faster and more easily. These new features include custom formulas and time-shifted metrics in Kibana Lens and a time slider in Elastic Maps–all without compromising speed. In addition:
Time-shifted metrics and a time slider in Kibana Lens and Elastic Maps allow users to compare data from different time periods at a glance.
Custom formulas in Kibana Lens and edit 
The latest updates to Elastic Cloud make it even easier for our customers to protect their data using Microsoft Azure Private Link, and offer new options for deployment location and hardware configuration in Google Cloud. Network security enhancementsWe’re excited to announce that support for Microsoft Azure Private Link is now generally available. Private Link provides private connectivity from your Azure virtual network to your Elastic Cloud deployments. The traffic between your virtual