Elasticsearch 8 enables scaling the number of shards in a cluster beyond what has been possible. Built on a foundation of new benchmark infrastructure, these advances protect from regressions and provide rigorous data on how Elasticsearch can scale.

Scale to new heights with Elasticsearch! In 7.16, we made several improvements for faster search, more stable clusters, and a reduced heap footprint.

With the addition of the Ingest node to Logstash migration tool, upgrading Ingest nodes to LS to leverage its richer functionality has just become a lot easier.