What's new

Elastic 8.6

Elastic 8.6 introduces a broad set of new capabilities to the Elastic Search Platform and its three built-in solutions — Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security.

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8.6 Enhancements

Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Elastic Cloud

Save space with improved storage efficiency of time series indices, surface better search results, and accelerate time to insights and time to (issue) resolution.

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  • Elastic Enterprise Search

    Enterprise Search

    New tools for implementing natural language processing (NLP) across search indices for faster time to value and higher quality search results.

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  • Elastic Observability

    Observability

    New host observability and application dependency operations views provide key insights into complex, distributed environments.

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  • Security

    Improved investigation and incident response times across SIEM, cloud, and endpoints — delivering enhanced ransomware protection and improved analyst workflows.

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8.6 release notes

Dive into the complete Elastic Stack and solutions documentation for details on everything that’s new and improved in 8.6 (and in past 8.x releases).

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