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On March 8, 2021, we'll be updating the Elastic Support Portal so that it's integrated with Elastic Cloud for authentication. Going forward, you will need to log into Elastic Cloud, with the same email address you had used before, in order to access the Elastic Support Portal. To get started, login to Elastic Cloud to access the Support Portal and follow the on-screen instructions to fully configure your account. As part of this change you may need to reset your password for the Elasti

Observability is an integral part of any healthy system. Entire teams (sometimes departments) are dedicated to knowing exactly what's going on with every server, container, service, application, and integration. That's a lot of logs, metrics, and traces to keep track of. At Elastic, we understand how important observability at scale is and how difficult it can be, so we developed a robust observability solution. But having the right tools is only half of the battle. How do you know that your tea

February is Black History Month, and our Black Elasticians (or Blasticians, as they call themselves) have spent a lot of energy to make this year special. We’ve curated a month-long celebration filled with stories and events that highlight the contributions of Black Americans to our collective history and culture.At the end of the month, we want to take a look back at some of these initiatives and share them with the public. Why? To celebrate the hard work of our team, and to inspire others to m

Graphical processing units, or GPUs, aren’t just for PC gaming. Today, GPUs are used to train neural networks, simulate computational fluid dynamics, mine Bitcoin, and process workloads in data centers. And they are at the heart of most high-performance computing systems, making the monitoring of GPU performance in today's data centers just as important as monitoring CPU performance. With that in mind, let's take a look at how to use Elastic Observability together with NVIDIA’s GPU monitoring to

The cold tier of searchable snapshots, previously beta in Elasticsearch 7.10, is now generally available in Elasticsearch 7.11. This new data tier reduces your cluster storage by up to 50% over the warm tier while maintaining the same level of reliability and redundancy as your hot and warm tiers. 

In this blog, we’ll take a look at the scenarios we’ve explored to make sure that the cold tier works flawlessly at scale, underlining the importance we place on quality and reliability of our s

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems are centralized logging platforms that enable security teams to analyze event data in real time for early detection of targeted cyber attacks and data breaches. A SIEM is used as a tool to collect, store, investigate, and report on log data for threat detection, incident response, forensics, and regulatory compliance. SIEM has continuously evolved since its early days of adoption. SIEM software today needs to support big data and provide c

With an increasing number of organizations migrating their applications and workloads to containers, the ability to monitor and track container health and usage is more critical than ever. Many teams are already using the Metricbeat docker module to collect Docker container monitoring data so it can be stored and analyzed in Elasticsearch for further analysis. But what happens when users are using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Can Metricbeat still be used to monitor Amazon

Version 7.11.1 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. The 7.11.1 patch contains fixes and small enhancements for the stack. Notable bug fixes are:

Regression fix in Elasticsearch for configured Active Directory or LDAP realms preventing Elasticsearch from starting (#68872) Regression fix in Elasticsearch repository-azure plugin preventing large snapshots to Azure Storage Service from succeeding (#68957)

For a full list of changes for each prod

In our Leadership @ Elastic blog series we highlight the innovative thinking behind the action at Elastic — from making distributed work better to enabling the next phase of our progress through consistency, forward thinking, and collaboration. In this edition we hear from Lisa Jones-Huff, senior director of security solutions architecture at Elastic, on the importance of learning in the trenches.

Where are you located?I’m based in Austin, Texas. I’ve been here for about 13 years. Austin used

We are excited to announce the new Elastic Cloud usage analysis page. You can now explore and analyze your Elastic Cloud usage to better understand how the resources you consume contribute to your monthly bill.  Your Elastic Cloud monthly bill consists of usage fees for the resources you used, including:

Your deployment size (such as virtual machine CPU and RAM)
The amount of data you transfer to your Elastic deployment
How much data you are storing

Understanding your resource utilizati