Elastic Blog - Elasticsearch, Kibana, and ELK Stack

Unlocking real-time geospatial intelligence with Elastic

Parker Hornstein — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Pubsec teams need real-time intelligence as conditions rapidly change. Learn how geospatial analytics unifies mission and IT data, enabling faster decisions, better coordination, and secure insights in on-prem, air-gapped, and cloud environments.

Elastic Cloud Serverless: Our worldwide expansion continues

Brian Bergholm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic announces the availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless in one new Azure region and two new AWS regions. This continues the company’s regional expansion plans to extend Serverless around the world for demanding customer use cases.

Elastic and Cursor partner to accelerate context engineering with coding agents

Hemant Malik,Laurent Saint-Felix,Rithika Kancharla — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic and Cursor partner to bring Elasticsearch's retrieval, tools, and memory into Cursor's coding agents, giving developers a context engineering foundation that keeps AI grounded in their own data.

Introducing Elastic Serverless Plus add-on with AWS PrivateLink capability

Alex Chalkias,Ramya Sarangarajan — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Elastic Cloud Serverless is launching Private Connectivity with AWS PrivateLink as part of the new Plus add-on to unblock enterprise adoption in regulated sectors and establish a private connection that bypasses the public internet.

GPUs go brrr! Elastic Inference Service (EIS): GPU-accelerated inference for Elasticsearch

Shubha Anjur Tupil,Josh Devins,Sean Handley,Max Jakob,Diana Jourdan — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic Inference Service (EIS) is now on Elastic Cloud, delivering GPU-accelerated ML inference for Elasticsearch. It simplifies GenAI workflows, removes manual node ops, and powers real-time insights with embeddings, reranking, and LLMs.

Understanding observability metrics: Types, golden signals, and best practices

Elastic Observability Team — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Learn how observability metrics, logs, traces, and profiles enhance monitoring, optimize performance, and support data-driven decisions.

Elastic named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cognitive Search Platforms, Q4 2025

Natalie Blake — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cognitive Search Platforms, Q4 2025. Elasticsearch is the open source distributed AI platform of choice for developers of agents, RAG, and vector search-based applications.

Understanding AI in government: Applications, use cases, and implementation

The Elastic Platform team — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Explore how AI and generative AI are transforming government with use cases, examples, and Elastic’s AI-driven solutions for efficiency, transparency, and citizen engagement.

You thought Elastic only did SIEM? Think again!

Jamie Hynds — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Learn how Elastic Security delivers powerful XDR with SIEM and includes endpoint protection, flexible pricing, and scalable data to help security teams outpace modern, complex threats.

Elastic Cloud Hosted achieves FedRAMP® High "In Process" status

Chris Townsend — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic is moving forward with obtaining FedRAMP® High authorization on AWS GovCloud, receiving an “In Process” designation from the US Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Program Management Office.

NLP vs. LLMs: Understanding the differences

The Elastic Platform team — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Discover the difference between NLP and LLMs, unraveling their unique characteristics and applications in the AI world.

Elastic and Tines team up to offer SOAR and AIOps

Mark Settle,Justin van Wart,Arlan Parry — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic and Tines unveil Tines Workflow Automation, a new product offering available through Elastic that brings orchestration and automation to security and observability teams.

Agentic AI in financial services: The rise of autonomous intelligence

Karen Mcdermott — Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

While agentic AI is still emerging for many, Elastic is powering it now — fueling autonomous workflows in fraud prevention, regulatory compliance, and cybersecurity across financial services.

How we built Automatic Import, Attack Discovery, and Elastic AI Assistant using LangChain

Dhrumil Patel,James Spiteri,Linda Ye, LangChain — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic Security is building innovative generative AI features using Elastic's Search AI Platform and partnering with LangChain. This technical blog shares the engineering underpinnings of this work.

How does Elastic Security drive value to your organization?

Rick Fernandez,Mandy Andress,Riya Juneja — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT

With our new Elastic Security Value Calculator, you can easily estimate how Elastic can drive financial gains for your organization. Based on your results, you’ll know how Elastic Security creates efficiencies for you.

Elastic and Jina AI join forces to advance open source retrieval for AI applications

Ken Exner — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

We are thrilled to announce that Elastic has joined forces with Jina AI, a pioneer in open source multimodal and multilingual embeddings, reranker, and small language models.

Elastic named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

Natalie Blake — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic was named a Leader in The Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. Elastic Observability delivers unified visibility at scale, LLM and infrastructure monitoring, flexible deployment, and an intuitive, analyst-first experience.

Vector database vs. graph database: Understanding the differences

The Elastic Platform team — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Discover the differences and similarities between knowledge graph and vector databases in this comprehensive guide. Explore their definitions and ideal use cases, and make an informed decision on which one to choose.

Elastic accelerates SIEM data onboarding with Automatic Import powered by Search AI

Jamie Hynds,Mark Settle — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic is automating SIEM data onboarding with Automatic Import. This feature — the only one of its kind — automates the development of custom data integrations. Elastic now adds custom data sources faster than any competing solution.

How to create a search engine

The Elastic Platform team — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:57:31 GMT

Learn how to build a search engine and simplify the process with Elastic, and start exploring its endless possibilities.

LangChain tutorial: A guide to building LLM-powered applications

The Elastic Platform team — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:04:52 GMT

Unlock the potential of LangChain with this step-by-step LangChain tutorial. Learn how to build AI-powered apps from scratch and start creating today.

Understanding AI search algorithms

The Elastic Platform team — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:38:56 GMT

Unlock the potential of AI search algorithms. Understand the importance and applications of these algorithms, explore their key elements, and discover the different types available.

Elastic Stack 9.3.3 released

Alina Băcălete — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.3.3 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.3.3 over the previous versions 9.3.2.

For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes.

Elastic Stack 9.2.8 released

Alina Băcălete — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.2.8 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.2.8 over the previous version 9.2.7

For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes.

Elastic Stack 8.19.14 released

Alina Băcălete — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 8.19.14 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 8.19.14 over the previous version 8.19.13

For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes.

5 stand-out retail use cases for generative AI + Elasticsearch

Brandon Mavleos — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

With ESRE, retailers can enhance their search capabilities to deliver more accurate and relevant results to their customers and employees, while ensuring sensitive data remains protected.

AI-powered fraud detection: Protecting financial services with Elastic

Karen Mcdermott — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:00:00 GMT

Discover how Elastic uses AI and ML to revolutionize fraud detection in financial services. From real-time anomaly detection to predictive analytics, learn how institutions can combat fraud, ensure compliance, and enhance trust with our solutions.

Fraud in financial services: Leaning on generative AI to protect a rapidly expanding attack surface

Richard Towle,Brandon Mavleos — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:57:21 GMT

AI technologies, particularly machine learning and advanced analytics, have emerged as powerful tools in the fight against fraud in financial services. Combined with Elastic, FSIs can better combat this data problem.

Elastic on Elastic: How we monitor our own services, websites, and operations

Soham Banerjee,Brad Timmerman — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

At Elastic, we act as “customer zero,” using our own platform to monitor everything. Unified telemetry, AI-driven insights, and automated workflows streamline detection and response — reducing MTTD/MTTR and giving teams a single source of truth.

Evolution of Workplace Search: Search your private data with Elasticsearch

Dana Juratoni,Aditya Tripathi — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:00:00 GMT

Workplace Search functionality will merge with Elastic Search in the future. Here’s what you need to know.

What's new in ECK: AutoOps Cloud Connected, air-gapped registry support, and composable configuration policies

Omer Kushmaro — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

ECK 3.3.1 adds AutoOps Cloud Connected for automated cluster health monitoring, a self-hosted Package Registry for air-gapped Fleet support, and composable Stack Config Policies for layered configuration management across multiple clusters.

Elastic named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025

Natalie Blake — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025. Elastic Security is AI-driven and open, delivering detection, investigation and response at scale, without lock-in or limits.

Elastic 9.1/8.19: BBQ by default, ES|QL with CCS GA, JOINS GA, Azure AI Foundry integration

Mark Doncov — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic 9.1 and 8.19 include BBQ by default, LOOKUP join and ES|QL cross-cluster search to GA, Azure AI Foundry integration, and more.

Elastic 9.0/8.18: BBQ, EDOT & LLM observability, Attack Discovery, Auto Import, and ES|QL JOIN

Brian Bergholm — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic 9.0, built on Lucene 10, marks a major upgrade for Elasticsearch. Elastic 9.0/8.18 includes faster BBQ, Elastic Distributions of OTel (EDOT) and LLM observability, Attack Discovery, Automatic Import, and enhancements in ES|QL like JOIN.

Understanding the approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) algorithm

The Elastic Platform team — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Discover the power of approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) algorithms. ANN search is the key to lightning-fast searches and valuable insights in vast data landscapes.

What is an Elasticsearch index?

David Brimley — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:00:00 GMT

Understand what an index is in Elasticsearch and how it compares to relational databases. Learn about flexible storage, efficient retrieval, advanced indexing, and search capabilities.

Elastic Cloud Hosted achieves FedRAMP® High authorization

Chris Townsend — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic Cloud Hosted is now FedRAMP High authorized on AWS GovCloud (US), enabling US federal agencies to use Elastic for use cases involving sensitive controlled unclassified information.

5 myths about Elastic Cloud Serverless debunked

Omer Kushmaro — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Elastic Cloud Serverless APIs have no version numbers and won't break; they're managed like any SaaS service. This post busts five common myths from upgrade planning to architecture and compares the versioned Elastic Stack to Serverless.

Elastic and Red Hat: Scaling the sovereign AI factory with NVIDIA GPU acceleration

Rachael Wade — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Power your sovereign AI factory using Elastic accelerated with the speed of NVIDIA GPUs on cuVS and the flexibility of Red Hat AI to enable enterprise-scale RAG and agentic AI workflows across any environment.

Elastic and Dell AI Data Platform: The foundation for high-velocity enterprise search

Brian Bergholm,Rachael Wade — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Dell’s AI Data Platform designed with Elasticsearch and NVIDIA cuVS is a turnkey enterprise-grade AI solution stack designed to deliver the speed, accuracy, and context required to help organizations turn unstructured data into an AI advantage.