The agentic era: Elastic at Google Cloud Next 2026

One thing was clear at Google Cloud Next 2026: The agentic era is here. The Agentic Enterprise is becoming a reality with tangible results surfacing across many industries.

Whereas a year ago much of the discussion felt conceptual and centered on proof-of-concept initiatives, the maturation of AI technologies has led to broad use that solves for real-world use cases.

To learn more about this prestigious award, check out the press release or blog.

If you’re interested in how Google Axion processors deliver up to 25% better price-performance for Elastic Cloud workloads, read the blog.

With the recent launch of Elastic Agent Builder and Elastic Workflows, we took the opportunity to focus on the capabilities and value these features offer during our breakout session. Through a fun Indiana Jones–style demo, Elastic presenters showed how users can build on Elastic’s deeply integrated open stack for context engineering and AI, bringing together vector database capabilities, hybrid search, Jina AI models, and Agent Builder in a single platform.

Building and scaling applications using Elastic and Google Cloud's Application Design Center (ADC) allows teams to combine high-performance search and observability with governed, automated infrastructure deployment. Technical specialists from Elastic and Google Cloud demonstrated how an Elastic Agent using ADC templates can gather logs, metrics, and security data across application instances to improve performance.

Another Elastic announcement centered on the technical preview of native Prometheus ingestion and PromQL support in Kibana. With native Prometheus support, Elastic eliminates data fragmentation tradeoffs by allowing teams to ingest, store, and analyze native Prometheus data alongside other telemetry data directly via Remote Write. 

And with native PromQL support in Kibana, users can run existing PromQL queries in dashboards and alerts without modification, thereby lowering the barrier to adoption for teams already using Prometheus. To understand how these features empower site reliability engineers (SREs), take a look at the press release or blogs on Prometheus and PromQL.

As we conclude our Elastic fiscal year with this invigorating event, we look forward to bringing even more capabilities to our customers in the agentic era ahead.

For more details on the event, watch the webinar From Next to Now: Elastic & Google Cloud's Agentic Enterprise in Action.

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