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Elastic community newsletter — August 2026

Elastic DevRel team — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

In this newsletter, we cover version 9.5 of Elasticsearch, the latest blogs and videos, and upcoming events.

How LivePerson optimized Logstash and Kafka performance on Google Cloud through benchmarking

Emily Chioconi,Kiril Karamanolev,Strahil Nikolov — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

LivePerson found that benchmarking Google Cloud machine types cut Logstash costs by over half using AMD Milan instances, while Kafka compression codec selection significantly boosted throughput.

Elastic achieves Defence Cyber Certification Level 0 in the UK

Christine Bocci,Ryan Kam — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic has achieved Defence Cyber Certification (DCC) Level 0 — the UK Ministry of Defence's baseline cyber assurance standard for the defence supply chain. Here's what it means and why it matters.

Building trusted agentic AI in financial services: From data to autonomous action

Karen Mcdermott — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Learn why trusted context — not just powerful AI models — is the foundation for scaling agentic AI in financial services. Discover how unified data, observability, enterprise search, and governance enable trusted autonomous operations.

AI consolidation: Why platforms will win and portfolios will break

Jesse Sladek — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Our partners are proof that getting this architecture right drives real success. By building on Elastic’s unified platform rather than a fragmented portfolio, they bypass the friction of integrating disparate tools.

Elastic 9.5: Columnar, VectorDB index mode & auto-calibration, and AI-driven alert triage

Sarah Leslie — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Today, we are pleased to announce the GA of Elastic 9.5 as the latest version of the Elasticsearch Platform. This release includes a range of new features, including Columnar Mode, VectorDB index mode, and Agent Builder enhancements. Learn more.

Azure Private Link for Elastic Cloud Serverless is now generally available

Alex Chalkias,Jordi Mon Companys — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Azure Private Link for Elastic Cloud Serverless is generally available. Your traffic stays inside Azure's private backbone — no public internet exposure required.

Closing the AI gap: How next-generation knowledge access unlocks mission outcomes for government

Oksana Abramovych — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

IDC research shows 72% of US public sector leaders struggle to scale AI. Learn how federated knowledge access unlocks mission outcomes.

Elastic and OpenAI collaborate to bring frontier intelligence to unstructured enterprise data

Gregory Tademoto,Hemant Malik — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Today, we announced an expanded collaboration to bridge the gap between AI agents and the enterprise context they need, helping organizations build production-ready AI applications and agents using OpenAI models with Elasticsearch.

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.

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 and Cursor partner to accelerate context engineering with coding agents

Hemant Malik,Laurent Saint-Félix,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.

Elastic Cloud Serverless: Ongoing multicontinent expansion

Brian Bergholm — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic announces the availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless in two additional Azure regions and two additional Google Cloud regions. Elastic meets customers where their data is — all around the globe.

Elastic achieves the AWS AI Security Distinction, securing AI-specific risks

Udayasimha Theepireddy,Brian Bergholm,Jennifer Michel — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic has achieved the AWS AI Security Distinction, awarded to partners with tech depth and real customer outcomes in AI and security. Elastic Security includes an AI agent, Elastic Workflows, LLM security detections, and agentic SOC capabilities.

From tool procurement to platform architecture: Rethinking the SOC for machine-speed threats

Joe DeFever — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fragmented SOCs can't keep pace with AI-driven attacks. See why security teams are moving from point tools to open, unified, agentic platforms in 2026.

How Elastic AI Assistant for Security and Amazon Bedrock can empower security analysts for enhanced performance

Udayasimha Theepireddy,James Spiteri,Ayan Ray — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT

The Elastic AI Assistant for Security coupled with Anthropic’s Claude model via Amazon Bedrock can elevate a security team’s posture and eliminate mundane tasks.

Elastic joins NVIDIA and industry leaders as inaugural member of the Open Secure AI Alliance for AI safety and security

Brian Bergholm,Rachael Wade — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

NVIDIA, Elastic, and other industry leaders are founding members of an innovative movement building tools to advance open innovation, shared progress, and trust in AI.

The big ideas behind retrieval augmented generation

Jessica Moszkowicz — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

In this post, I focus on the big ideas behind vectors, chunking, and RAG. These complicated concepts are explained in detail through easy-to-understand analogies and examples for a less technical audience to get started on semantic search.

The evolution of Discover in Kibana

Matthias Wilhelm — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Discover has been around for quite some time in Kibana. But recently, we've added a new document table, field statistics, and the ability to create threshold alert rules.

Streamline Kibana dashboard navigation with the Links panel

Teresa Alvarez Soler — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 23:00:00 GMT

Find out how to better organize your Kibana dashboards and carry over your filters and queries when navigating between dashboards.

Elastic Stack 8.11: Introducing a new powerful query language, ES|QL

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 23:00:00 GMT

Elastic Stack 8.11 introduces an advanced query language known as ES|QL in the Discover application, making data exploration more straightforward and user friendly. The Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR (ELSER) is now generally available.

Elastic Stack 8.9: Faster cross-cluster searches and aggregations on metrics

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic Stack 8.9 delivers significant speed-up of aggregations for metrics, faster and more reliable cross-cluster searches, and management of alert rules using Terraform.

Crafting a hybrid geospatial RAG application with Elastic and Amazon Bedrock

Udayasimha Theepireddy,Srinivas Pendyala,Ayan Ray — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This blog explores how to build a powerful retrieval augmented generation (RAG) system that incorporates geospatial data using Elasticsearch, Amazon Bedrock, and LangChain.

Generative AI using Elastic and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Udayasimha Theepireddy,Ayan Ray — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Learn how to build a GAI solution by exploring Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, Elastic, and Hugging Face open source LLMs using the sample implementation provided in this post and a data set relevant to your business.

In search of a cluster health diagnosis: Introducing the Elasticsearch Health API

Andrei Dan — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Is my Elasticsearch cluster healthy? How do I repair it? These are difficult questions to answer, but as part of Elasticsearch 8.7, we are releasing a new Health API to help identify and fix problems in Elasticsearch clusters.

Elasticsearch MCP server now available on AWS Marketplace

Udayasimha Theepireddy,Matt Ryan,Srinivas Pendyala — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Elasticsearch MCP server — available on AWS Marketplace — allows seamless integration with Elasticsearch data using the Model Context Protocol. You can connect directly from any MCP-compatible client to query and interact with Elasticsearch indices.

Elastic and Google Cloud: Enhancing security analytics from data ingestion to incident response

Valerio Arvizzigno,Yang Li — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic and Google Cloud are pioneering a comprehensive security solution that leverages their distinct capabilities to offer an unparalleled security analytics experience.

How to build comprehensive customer financial profiles with Elastic Cloud and Google Cloud

Dimitri Marx,Eric Lowry,Yang Li — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 23:00:00 GMT

Financial institutions have vast amounts of data about their customers, but many of them struggle to use that data to their advantage. Elastic and Google Cloud enable institutions to manage this information effectively.

Safely sample production data into pre-production environments with Logstash

Alexander Marquardt — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Learn how to use Logstash to safely route a subset of production data to pre-production clusters by using efficient sampling techniques and by leveraging the UDP protocol’s fire-and-forget functionality.

Encryption at rest in Elastic Cloud: Bring your own key with Google Cloud

Jonathan Simon,Alex Chalkias — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Follow the step-by-step process of configuring encryption at rest in Elastic Cloud using Google Cloud Key Management Service.

Secure your Elastic Cloud account with multifactor authentication (MFA)

Alex Chalkias — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic Cloud now supports enhanced multifactor authentication (MFA) to protect user accounts and data. Learn about the importance of MFA for your organization and how to implement your MFA setup.

Encryption at rest in Elastic Cloud: Bring your own key with Azure Key Vault

Alex Chalkias,Greg Crist,Gheorghe Pucea — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Follow this step-by-step process to implement encryption at rest with Azure Key Vault keys and Elastic Cloud deployments to create a secure and compliant environment for your sensitive data.

Encryption at rest in Elastic Cloud: Bring your own key with AWS KMS

Jonathan Simon,Alex Chalkias,Udayasimha Theepireddy — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Follow the step-by-step process of configuring encryption at rest in Elastic Cloud using AWS Key Management Service (KMS).

Elastic Platform 8.14: ES|QL GA, encryption at rest, and vector search optimizations

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic Platform 8.14 includes ES|QL GA, the use of AI for pattern recognition in logs, API key based security model for remote clusters, encryption at rest with KMS keys, retrievers, several vector optimizations, and vector quantization by default.

Elastic’s new metrics capabilities will dramatically improve uptime for public sector IT

Leanne Link,Abhi Pandey — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The new columnar metrics engine in Elastic Observability enables public sector IT teams to combine logging, metrics, and traces in one platform. As a result, SREs can improve uptime while protecting taxpayer dollars in the process.

Elastic and Deductive AI join forces to accelerate agentic incident investigation for engineering teams

Baha Azarmi — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Today, Elastic announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Deductive AI, an AI-powered investigation platform that helps engineering teams identify and resolve production issues faster.

Elastic Stack 9.4.3 released

Navya Uppalapati — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.4.3 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.4.3 over the previous versions 9.4.2

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 9.4.4 released

Navya Uppalapati — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.4.4 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.4.4 over the previous versions 9.4.3

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 9.3.8 released

Navya Uppalapati — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.3.8 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.3.8 over the previous versions 9.3.7

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 8.19.19 released

Navya Uppalapati — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 8.19.19 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 8.19.19 over the previous version 8.19.18

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.