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Elastic and Tencent Cloud deepen strategic partnership to power AI-era search foundation

Yuki Jiang — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Tencent Cloud and Elastic announced an expanded strategic collaboration in Shenzhen in August 2026. The companies will deepen their technical and product collaboration to help enterprises establish dedicated AI search for the AI era.

The security attack that hid inside your observability data

Roberto Arico — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Your ops team sees a CPU spike. Your security team sees nothing. The cryptominer runs for six hours. Avoid duplication of cost and time and see how a unified observability and security platform with grounded AI closes the gap.

Elastic Stack 9.5.3 released

Vincent Deuschle — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.5.3 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.5.3 over the previous versions 9.5.2

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 9.4.6 released

Julien Mailleret — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.4.6 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.4.6 over the previous versions 9.4.5

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.

The 9.4.6 release contains fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. Please see our security announcement for more details

Elastic Stack 8.19.21 released

Julien Mailleret — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 8.19.21 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 8.19.21 over the previous versions 8.19.21

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.

The 8.19.21 release contains fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. Please see our security announcement for more details

Defending against AI-fueled social engineering

Joe DeFever — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

AI is supercharging social engineering. Learn how SOC teams can detect deepfakes, spear phishing, and smishing before they cause real damage.

Introducing cross-project search in Elastic Cloud Serverless

Najwa Harif,Hubert Grzesiek — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discover cross-project search (CPS) for Elastic Cloud Serverless. Search across all your workloads from a single pane of glass, and instantly query distributed projects as one without moving your underlying data.

Forging India's Digital Future: Elastic{ON} Comes to Mumbai

Atul Ahuja — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Join us at Elastic{ON} Mumbai to explore search, full-stack observability, and security, and how Elastic acts as the context engine that grounds agentic AI in your enterprise data, transforming regulatory mandates and data into an AI advantage.

How can agencies unify smart city data to improve public services?

Brixton Pizzuti — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Learn how can smart cities unify operational data, improve visibility, detect anomalies, and secure connected infrastructure.

Machine vs. machine: The new reality of cybersecurity in ANZ

Jeremy Pell — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Frontier AI has accelerated cyber threats to machine speed, leaving many ANZ organisations vulnerable. Our latest research reveals how fragmented data and visibility gaps hinder defence and why a unified platform is essential to battle threats.

Rolling your own Detections as Code with Elastic Security

Mika Ayenson,Kseniia Ignatovych,Justin Ibarra — Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Detections as Code (DaC) is transforming security rule management. Learn about Elastic's latest enhancements in the detection-rules repo, how to leverage it for custom rule management, and our comprehensive guide for adopting DaC.

How SLED can win the cybersecurity race with agentic AI

Bobby Suber — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

AI-accelerated attacks are outpacing SLED security teams. Learn how state, local, and education organizations are closing the gap by fixing their data foundation first.

Why public sector needs AI-powered observability: Cost savings, ROI, and analyst efficiency

Leanne Link — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 08:00:00 GMT

Elastic Observability helps public sector customers solve problems like IT modernization, data silos, and data inaccessibility. Customers gain significant value from Elastic Observability, including increased ROI, analyst efficiency and cost savings.

Free the data: Why US federal agencies should standardize on OpenTelemetry

Bill Wright — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Adopting OpenTelemetry standards can enhance the government's ability to manage and analyze telemetry data across diverse systems – ensuring consistent and reliable data collection and leading to better decision-making and improved service delivery.

What's new in ECK 3.5

Kostas Stamatakis — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

ECK 3.5 brings dynamic namespace management via label selectors, pause orchestration for safe maintenance windows, mutual TLS across all stack components, simplified resource specs, and a reduced operator memory footprint.

Elastic Stack 9.5.2 released

Navya Uppalapati — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.5.2 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.5.2 over the previous versions 9.5.1

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.

The search multiplier: Driving revenue, productivity, and AI at scale

Nicole Volk — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

An independent IDC study found organizations deploying the Elasticsearch Platform for enterprise search and agentic AI deliver AI products faster, drive higher revenue, boost productivity, and strengthen operational resilience across the business.

7 lessons for IT leaders on using observability to monitor AI applications

Brad Quarry — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discover the seven lessons we learned as we evolve our LLM observability practice to monitor and improve our AI applications.

How state and local agencies can get ahead of fraud starting with the data they already have

Leanne Link — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fraud and waste continues to be a challenge for state and local government agencies in the US. Though the data exists, the challenge is pulling it all together for an accurate anomaly detection and remediation.

From retrieval to agents: 5 takeaways on production architecture for AI agents

Sri Desikan — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

As enterprises transition from search-driven experiences to agentic AI, requirements are shifting. Learn how context engineering and retrieval layers are now more critical for building trustworthy, production-ready AI agents.

Agentic treasury runs on searchable, observable context

Karen Mcdermott — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Agentic treasury requires more than AI. It needs searchable context, observable systems, and trusted data to reduce decision latency and support confident, governed action.

Elastic Stack 9.5.1 released

Navya Uppalapati — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.5.1 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.5.1 over the previous versions 9.5.0

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 9.4.5 released

Navya Uppalapati — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.4.5 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.4.5 over the previous versions 9.4.4

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 8.19.20 released

Navya Uppalapati — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 8.19.20 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 8.19.20 over the previous version 8.19.19

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 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.