We’re fast approaching the Elastic Community Conference (ElasticCC) which takes place on February 26 through February 27 (for APJ time zones). If you didn’t see the official announcement, ElasticCC is a free technical conference that’s from the community, for the community. We’re welcoming developers, practitioners, customers and partners to join us — there will be a little bit of everything, for everyone, presented by Elasticians and members of the Elastic community just like you. Wherever you
Over the years, the Elastic community has created over 90 Beats, shared use case tutorials like those from Audi, T-Mobile, and P&G, and presented at hundreds upon hundreds of meetups. We created the Elastic Contributor Program, which launched globally in September 2020, to recognize and reward the hard work of our awesome contributors, encourage knowledge sharing within the Elastic community, and build friendly competition around contributions. And now we’re excited to announce the launch of the
WaKED-CO (Watch of Knowledge on Emergent Diseases COVID-19) is an initiative launched in record time — deployed just a month after developing a prototype — under the leadership of the health service within the Ministry of Armed Forces in France. The project had one core mission: to make it easier to research the literature around the COVID-19 crisis. To achieve this mission, the initiative had two priorities: first, to be able to track the rapid evolution of the epidemic and the scientific progr
In this post, we’ll show how you can secure your Elastic Enterprise Search deployment by using a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) identity provider (IdP) — in this case, we’ll be using Okta — for cross-domain, single sign-on authentication. IdPs are responsible for confirming that a user is who they say are, and then sending that data (and the user’s access rights) to a service provider — in this case to Elastic. Get your cluster going with SAML on Elastic CloudTo get started, you’ll ne
This post is a recap of a presentation given at ElasticON 2020. Interested in seeing more talks like this? Check out the conference archive. Network infrastructure is the engine that drives a company’s business. As companies scale, assets that compose this infrastructure become more complex to manage. That means there’s more hardware, more software, and more subscriptions and services that require tracking. It’s critical that IT managers and network administrators have complete accounting of the
As a security analyst on Elastic’s InfoSec team, a common scenario we see is users coming to our team and asking: “Is this file safe to open?” Or one user reports a phishing email with an attachment that they didn’t open, but we see from the logs that 10 other users also received that email but didn’t report it and no alerts went off on their systems. A common attack we see is phishing emails containing attachments that do not contain malicious code and thus do not set off any alerts, but they a
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 Erika Chandler, our new VP of go-to-market strategy and operations.
Erika Chandler joined Elastic just a few short weeks ago but she’s already making her presence felt.
Based in North Carolina, Erika lives with her husband o
Elasticsearch 7.10 made configuring the lifecycle of your data less complicated. In this blog post I’ll walk through some of the changes, how to use them, and some best practices along the way. Data lifecycle can encompass a lot of stages, so we’ll touch on:
Dividing a cluster into tiers (hot, warm, cold), ensuring new data makes its way to the right place.
Making use of those tiers within index lifecycle management (ILM) for migrating data between tiers.
Increasing the data density within t
When we announced our license change for Elasticsearch and Kibana, moving the Apache 2 licensed source code to be dual licensed under both the Elastic License and SSPL, we also mentioned we would work closely with the community on a simplified and more permissive version of the Elastic License. I am happy to share the results with you.The Elastic License is already widely used. More than 90% of our downloads are under the Elastic License, and those users enjoy the significant additional value pr
The first Black History Month is a history of steady progress. Originally conceived as Negro History Week and celebrated in the first week of February to align with the birthday of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas, the current month-long celebration was proposed by educators and administrators at Kent State University in Ohio in 1969 at the tail end of America’s most revolutionary decade for racial justice. Since then, Black History Month has become a yearly reminder of the struggles, contr