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SNAP payment error detection: how Elastic helps US states beat the FY2028 penalty

Adam Vielbaum — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Detecting SNAP fraud requires a layered approach, where rules catch what agencies know to look for, machine learning surfaces what rules miss, and conversational investigation helps analysts act on what the data reveals. Elastic delivers all three.

How Elastic helps Audi Revolut F1® Team find what matters across engineering software

Melissa Rigney — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

We are excited to announce a new multi-year partnership between Elastic and Audi Revolut F1® Team. The partnership builds on an existing technical relationship: the team already uses Elastic to support investigations across its engineering software.

From alert fatigue to action: Smarter SOC workflows for defence teams

Crossley McEwen — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Defence SOC teams are under pressure from growing cyber threats and shrinking resources. Discover how automation helps reduce fatigue, speed up investigations, and strengthen defence cyber posture.

7 lessons from IT leaders on their AI adoption journeys

Jennifer Klinger — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:00:00 GMT

AI adoption is top of mind for 92% of IT leaders. Three IT CxOs share what they’ve learned on their AI adoption journeys, how they tackled challenges, and how they’re leading their organizations in this new era.

App Search and Workplace Search standalone products are now deprecated

The Search Product Team — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Previously bundled as Elastic’s App Search and Workplace Search, core capabilities for building search for the enterprise are all available in Elasticsearch Serverless.

Elastic looks to speed up Jina Model Inference by 8x using NVIDIA RTX GPUs

Gregory Chase,Rachael Wade,Kapil Jadhav — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic is accelerating Jina model inference with NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPUs, delivering up to 8x faster embedding, 4x faster reranking, and 3.7x faster OCR to power search and agentic AI.

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.

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).

Encryption at rest in Elastic Cloud: A strategic imperative for enterprise security

Alex Chalkias,Udayasimha Theepireddy — Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Encryption at rest is crucial for data security in cloud-based environments. It protects sensitive data stored within SaaS applications, ensuring confidentiality and compliance. Elastic Cloud helps customer-managed keys for better control and trust.

Faster threat detection, stronger security: The Kibana advantage

Jordyn Short,Nick Keats — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Within security, the power of an intuitive and user-friendly interface like Kibana cannot be overstated. A streamlined interface empowers security teams to respond rapidly to threats, significantly reducing the MTTD and minimizing potential damage.

Top 5 IT challenges leaders are facing (and solutions to them)

Riya Juneja,Jennifer Klinger — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:00:00 GMT

CIOs face mounting IT challenges like data silos and manual processes, hindering business growth. GenAI and data-driven solutions offer relief, but leaders must address their data management issues to unlock GenAI's full potential for innovation.

Tips for choosing an AI-driven SIEM

Joe DeFever — Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Today’s adapting SOC needs full visibility, advanced analytics, automation with AI, and flexible deployment. In this blog, we explore some of the key considerations to account for when adopting a new AI-driven SIEM that can rise to the occasion.

How the MOD can achieve decision superiority against cyber threats

Crossley McEwen — Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Here’s how AI-enhanced security platforms unify cyber security across legacy systems and security classifications, giving military teams decision superiority against evolving cyber threats with faster detection and streamlined operations.

Reclaiming analyst time: Smarter investigations with AI in defence

Crossley McEwen — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Security analysts at the UK MOD face thousands of alerts daily, causing burnout while breaches increase. Here’s how Elastic's AI tools shorten investigations from hours to minutes, supporting the Defence AI Strategy and Zero Trust goals.

Day in the life of an SOC leader

Elastic Security Team — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Explore a day in the life of a SOC leader, and learn how they oversee analysts, lead incident response, and threat detection in today’s cybersecurity landscape.

AI-driven threat detection and response

Elastic Observability team — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Relegating time-consuming, data-intensive tasks to AI expedites teams' mean time to detect and respond, increases scale of data analysis, improves fidelity and accuracy of alerts, and boosts efficiency. Here's how...

How to put your untapped data to work to transform your business

Jennifer Klinger — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Discover how to leverage your organization's untapped data in 3 steps to reduce security risks, increase resilience, and enhance user experiences.

Achieve operational resilience with a flexible data store

Fermi Fang — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Are you prepared for the unexpected? A resilient data store helps to ensure that an application performs optimally and data integrity is maintained. Discover what to look for in your data store solution to help you achieve operational resilience.

Where are you on the 4-stage data maturity journey?

Riya Juneja — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Discover your stage in the 4-stage data maturity journey and learn to aggregate data for meaningful insights and informed decision-making.

3 steps to advance your data maturity journey

Jennifer Klinger — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Identify your data maturity stage and learn three steps to advance your journey, transforming your organization into a data-driven powerhouse.

5 pillars of operational resilience

The Elastic Platform team — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Building an operational resilience framework through these key principles will set your business up to respond, recover, and learn from disruptions.

4 steps to cook up a solid generative AI data strategy

Jay Shah — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Jay Shah, sr. director of enterprise applications, shares steps to building a solid generative AI data strategy. Learn how to align your goals, choose the right tools, bridge the gap between tech and business outcomes, and continuously measure value.

Elastic Security integration with Google Distributed Cloud: Closing the velocity gap in air-gapped environments

TJ Banasik, Google Distribution Cloud,Mike Nichols — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

As AI-powered threats grow more complex, traditional security operations struggle to keep pace. Google Distributed Cloud AI SecOps, powered by Elastic, brings AI-driven detection, investigation, and response to fully air-gapped environments.

Making data work across boundaries: The next challenge for policing

Will Markham — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Police reform depends on making data work across force boundaries. Connecting data where it lives gives policing national reach, keeps local accountability, and makes AI cheaper and faster to scale.

Better together: Celebrating the 2026–2027 Elastic Partner Awards

Jason Kimrey — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

We created the Elastic Partner Awards to recognize our partners' contributions and the results they are delivering for customers. See who the Elastic Partner Award winners are for 2026–2027!

Bring your own key to existing Elastic Cloud deployments

Alex Chalkias — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Enable BYOK on existing Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments: encrypt data and snapshots with your own KMS key, in place, without recreating the deployment.

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.

Elastic named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

Natalie Blake — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. In our opinion, Elastic Observability helps teams investigate faster with agentic AI with full context and reduces costs with efficient metrics and logs storage.

Elastic named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Search

Loren Erickson — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Search. We ranked #1 in the AI Automation Use Case in the companion Critical Capabilities report.

Elastic Stack 8.19.23 released

Vincent Deuschle — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 8.19.23 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 8.19.23 over the previous version 8.19.22.

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

Elastic Stack 9.4.8 released

Vincent Deuschle — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.4.8 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.4.8 over the previous version 9.4.7.

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.

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

Elastic Stack 9.5.5 released

Vincent Deuschle — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.5.5 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.5.5 over the previous version 9.5.4.

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.

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

Elastic Security and OpenAI GPT Cyber models: What frontier cyber defense means for the public sector

John Harmon — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic responded to OpenAI’s call for stronger, faster cyber defense against AI-enabled threats by joining the OpenAI Daybreak Defense Network and announcing plans to integrate OpenAI GPT Cyber models directly into Elastic Security.

From reactive to resilient: Findings from the Total Economic Impact of Elastic Observability 2026

Nicole Volk — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A Forrester Consulting study finds that enterprises deploying Elastic Observability achieve a 362% ROI, $28.1 million in three-year benefits, and payback in under six months, all while reclaiming thousands of engineering hours from incident response.

When AI agents swarm, can banks keep up?

Karen Mcdermott — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

As AI agents transform cyber risk, banks need real-time visibility across security and operational data to detect unusual behavior, investigate threats, and respond at machine speed.

Building production-ready AI in India

Ravindra Ramnani — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

See how developer teams in India built production-ready AI applications with Elasticsearch for the Forge the Future Hackathon 2026, with winners crowned at Elastic{ON} Mumbai.

Elastic Cloud Serverless: Another Azure region

Brian Bergholm,Lucy Wang — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic announces the availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless in the Microsoft Azure region of Iowa, bringing serverless Azure regions to 12 worldwide. Elastic meets customers where their data is — all around the globe.

DevRel newsletter — September 2026

Elastic DevRel team — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Hello from the Elastic DevRel team! In this newsletter, we cover jina-ocr-v1, the latest blogs and videos, and upcoming events like Elastic{ON}.

Elastic Cloud on Azure gets a speed boost: Compute-optimized instances on Azure Cobalt ARM

Joe Chin,Greg Crist — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Starting September 24, 2026, Elastic Cloud on Azure adds compute-optimized (ARM) hardware profiles backed by Microsoft's Cobalt ARM processors, delivering up to 37% better throughput than the previous generation Ampere Altra VMs at lower cost.