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Monitor Claude activity in Elastic Security

Jamie Hynds,Sumana Mannem — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic’s Anthropic integration ingests Claude Compliance API events into Elastic Security, enabling teams to monitor activity via dashboards, detect risks with automated rules, and investigate threats alongside existing telemetry.

How one partnership powers hundreds of millions of WP Engine searches per month

Sunile Manjee — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discover how WP Engine innovates with Google Cloud and Elastic to deliver high-precision search and seamless integration for modern software vendors.

After the alert: Rethinking how we investigate financial crime

Jon Williams — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Financial services stop most fraud before it hits customers, but millions of cases still need investigating. Elastic brings AI-assisted triage, unified data, and scalable analytics to the investigation layer.

Elastic: Distributed by design

Elastic Culture — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Learn the how and why behind Elastic’s distributed nature and what being distributed means to us as a business practice and mindset.

From M-21-31 to M-26-14: What US government agencies need to know now

Chris Townsend — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

M-26-14 sets a new compliance baseline for cybersecurity logging, shifting to a risk-based, outcome-driven approach. Agencies operating with distributed, open, and AI-powered platforms like Elastic are better positioned to meet the requirements.

Quantum computing, agentic AI, and the next infrastructure layer in financial services

Karen Mcdermott — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

As financial services firms adopt AI and explore quantum computing, vector search, observability, and security platforms are emerging as the contextual intelligence foundation for autonomous enterprise systems.

Decemberfest is here! How we celebrate the holidays at Elastic

Elastic Culture — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 05:00:00 GMT

Take a peek at how Elasticians around the world are celebrating the holiday season during Decemberfest.

Compliance work is overdue for a new approach

Smriti,Mia LaVada — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic Security introduces agentic compliance in Agent Builder, starting with PCI DSS v4.0.1. Ask questions over live telemetry, inspect ES|QL evidence and scope claims, spot data gaps, and automate daily checks with Workflows — beyond dashboards.

Meet Elastic's ERGs

Elastic Culture — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Employee resource groups build a sense of community and belonging, provide an inclusive space for people with similar experiences, empower employees to share their voice, and amplify our DEI initiatives. Here’s a bit about each one.

How to choose a vector database

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

Explore the different types of vector databases available and discover the key factors to consider when choosing the right one.

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.

3 engineers share how they advanced their careers at Elastic

Elastic Culture — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Advancement and continued learning are top of mind for employees. We asked three Elastician engineers who have advanced their careers at Elastic for their top tips. Read them here.

Onboarding at Elastic: What to expect

Elastic Culture — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

As a distributed company, we’re experts in remote onboarding. Learn how we onboard new hires at Elastic, and dive into X-School, our new hire orientation experience.

Agentic SOCs: The public sector’s new AI cybersecurity defense

John Harmon — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

To match the speed of AI cyber threats, public sector security teams are using AI-powered SOCs to reduce fragmentation and accelerate AI threat detection and response.

Scaling AI in financial services starts with governance and architecture

Karen Mcdermott — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discover how financial services companies scale AI initiatives by prioritizing data governance, unified search, and observability architecture. Insights from IDC, Microsoft, Kyndryl, and Elastic.

How to overcome data gravity and accelerate AI security in the SOC

Joe DeFever — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Does heavy security data slow your threat detection? You're not alone. Learn four principles to unify your architecture and speed up incident response.

The platform cycle has turned. Here’s how partners win it.

Jesse Sladek — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

AI is changing how people buy, driving them to single platforms. As the unified platform for search, security, and observability, Elastic offers partners major growth. Build your practice today and reap the rewards.

Protecting critical infrastructure in the AI era: It starts with data

Alf Franklin — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Learn how AI-driven security, Zero Trust, and a unified data foundation help critical infrastructure organizations improve resilience, detect threats faster, and protect essential services.

The essential Elastic 2026 wrap-up for Microsoft Build attendees and Azure developers

Greg Crist — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic's 2026 releases included multimodal search via Elastic Inference Service, OpenTelemetry metrics at 3.75 bytes per data point, agent context memory at scale, and open source CI/CD pipeline security. It’s the catch-up your stack needs.

Elastic Stack 8.19.16 released

Nina Lee — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 8.19.16 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 8.19.16 over the previous versions 8.19.15

The 8.19.16 release contains fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. Please see our security advisory for more details.

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 9.4.2 released

Nina Lee — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.4.2 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.4.2 over the previous versions 9.4.1

The 9.4.2 release contains fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. Please see our security advisory for more details.

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 9.3.5 released

Nina Lee — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.3.5 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.3.5 over the previous versions 9.3.4

The 9.3.5 release contains fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. Please see our security advisory for more details.

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 data foundation and technology stack gaps stalling your AI agents

Rusty Searle — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discover the five critical infrastructure gaps stalling your enterprise AI initiatives, and learn how CIOs are addressing data, integration, and governance to scale agentic AI.

The AI arms race in cybersecurity: Why your SOC needs to evolve now

Mike Nichols — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The threat landscape has fundamentally shifted. Adversaries are no longer just nation-states and elite criminal groups with deep pockets. They are anyone with access to AI, and that changes everything.

The data platform bet: Why financial AI initiatives stall and how the winners scale

Tim Brophy — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discover why 40% of financial AI initiatives fail, and learn how a unified data platform enables secure, real-time AI scaling in regulated environments.

Stanford’s AI Index Report 2026 meets the security reality in financial services

Karen Mcdermott — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

AI is becoming core to financial services. But as adoption scales, so does risk. Without secure, real-time data, strong governance, and cyber resilience, AI can amplify threats as quickly as it drives innovation.

Why the Elasticsearch Platform is the missing piece in your AI stack

Matthew Skinner — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Most enterprise AI initiatives stitch together four to five systems for memory, search, and state. The Elasticsearch Platform handles all of it in one engine — and the architecture is simpler than you think.

Finally, a SIEM that gets cloud detection and response

Jennifer Ellard,Tamarian Del Conte,Sneha Sachidananda — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT

Elastic Security combines CDR with SIEM to deliver crucial context, prioritized threat detection, and rapid response for a more efficient security posture.

AI adoption in security: Top use cases and mistakes to avoid

Elastic Security Team — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Discover top AI use cases in cybersecurity and key pitfalls to avoid when adopting AI in your SOC to improve threat detection and response.

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.

1 year and 1 million messages later: Lessons learned building AI agents on the Elasticsearch Platform

Chris Blaisure,Riya Juneja — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

After a year and one million messages, Elastic's Field Technology team shares five lessons from building production AI agents: why logs matter most, how retrieval thresholds shape quality, and what high token counts actually signal.

Takeaways from Elastic’s Forge the Future Hackathon 2026 in Singapore

Chris Walker — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic's 2026 Forge the Future Hackathon in Singapore captured how quickly AI is moving to agentic systems that can reason, recommend, and act. Learn how 77 participants came together to design and build AI agent solutions in just four hours.

The Elasticsearch Agent Builder Hackathon

Himanshi Goyal — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Elasticsearch Agent Builder Hackathon showed AI agents built with Elastic tools to solve real-world problems. Winners include PHAROS (drug safety in <60s), Gauntlet (adversarial testing), and a duplicate detection agent for Kenya’s HIV program.

Gauntlet: What happens when your agent's tools fight back

Kavish Sathia — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Elasticsearch Agent Builder Hackathon spotlighted Gauntlet, a top-three project that uses mocking agents to mutate tool calls, expose hidden failures, and improve AI agent reliability.

Catching invisible errors: How I built a duplicate detection agent for Kenya's HIV program

Fredrick Kioko — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A multi-agent duplicate detection system built with Elastic Agent Builder addresses the 56% failure rate of manual duplicate detection in Kenya's HIV patient records. It uses tiered risk scoring and specific recs to provide $195K annual savings.

PHAROS: 4 agents, 60 seconds, 1 missed drug safety signal away from disaster

Prajwal Sutar — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

PHAROS is a 4-agent system built with Elasticsearch that automates pharmacovigilance. It detects adverse drug safety signals using WHO-standard analysis, generates regulatory reports, and sends critical alerts in under 60 seconds.

Elastic Stack 9.4.1 released

adrian brown — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.4.1 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.4.1 over the previous versions 9.4.0

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 9.4: Workflows GA, Agent Builder updates, and Prometheus/PromQL support

Dan Courcy — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic 9.4 makes Elastic the context and retrieval layer of choice with Agent Builder enhancements and Workflows GA while native Prometheus support and TSDB improvements make Elastic Observability the best platform for logs, metrics, and traces.

Is your SIEM actually ready? A new way to find out

Smriti — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

SIEM Readiness is a new capability in Elastic Security, available in technical preview as of 9.4, that provides a centralized, continuously updated, and actionable view of your SIEM's operational health.

Beyond debugging: How GenAI can turn logs into business intelligence

Elastic Observability Team — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Logs have returned to center stage for observability with new capabilities given the emergence of generative AI. Find out how GenAI and logs can provide visibility and insights to manage your operations and improve business outcomes.