What’s new in Elastic 8.12

Ravi Ramnani

Principal Solutions Architect

Elastic

In this virtual event, we will walk through the exciting new capabilities and feature updates in Elastic 8.12 which includes the GA of the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability, the update to Apache Lucene 9.9 with scalar quantization, new machine learning capabilities, CSPM integration for Microsoft Azure, enhanced Elastic Agent functionality, and more.

Highlights: 

• Elastic Search

  Learn how 8.12 leverages Apache Lucene 9.9, new machine learning capabilities, the GA of connectors (such as Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Amazon S3, and more), a simplified developer experience, support for OOTB multi-lingual vector search and more

• Elastic Observability

  Learn about mobile APM support based on OpenTelemetry, the GA of Elastic AI Assistant for Observability, GA for Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and more

• Elastic Security

  Learn about the technical preview of real-time personalized alert insights in the Elastic AI Assistant for Security, the GA of CSPM integration for Microsoft Azure (all three major hyper scalers are now covered), the tech preview of two-way integration with SentinelOne, the GA of alert assignment enhancements, and more

• All of Elastic’s out-of-the box solutions are built on the Elasticsearch® Platform. All users, regardless of use case, benefit from core enhancements.

  Learn about the updates to ES|QL, runtime fields for geo_shape, the GA of concurrency per segment of aggregations, the GA of simulated ingest pipeline processing using new API features, the tech preview of the ability to edit ES|QL queries in a Kibana® dashboard, the GA of enhanced Elastic Agent functionality, and more.