Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

November 2024

Stream AWS metrics to Elastic using Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams

In today’s data-driven world, organizations need to harness the power of real-time monitoring and analysis. Amazon CloudWatch native monitoring service provides a robust platform for tracking metrics, logs, and events from various Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. However, when you need to extend your monitoring and analytics beyond CloudWatch, integrating CloudWatch with Elastic can be a game-changer.

From App Search to Elasticsearch - Tap into the future of search

App Search will be discontinued in 9.0 versions, but Elasticsearch has everything you need to build powerful AI-powered search experiences. Here’s what you need to know. Recent advancements in generative AI are transforming user behavior, inspiring developers to create search experiences that are more dynamic, intuitive, and engaging.

Leveling up your observability practice - Part 2

Lessons from the front lines: Challenges in your observability maturity journey In our previous blog, we explored the observability maturity spectrum — revealing that while only 7% of organizations consider themselves experts, the majority (43%) are actively working to improve their practices. We saw how mature organizations achieve better outcomes, from faster root cause analysis to reduced user-reported incidents.

Agentic RAG on Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and Elasticsearch Vector Database

We are excited to collaborate with Dell on the white paper,Agentic RAG on Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. The white paper is a design reference document for developers outlining strategies and solution components to implement agentic retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications. It’s a design point for organizations across industries, specifically healthcare, for the agentic RAG framework decision-making with AI-driven data retrieval.

Leveling up your observability practice - Part 1

Lessons from the front lines: Moving to observability maturity What separates the observability experts from the novices? It's a question that's been on my mind lately, especially after diving into our recent 2024 State of Observability Survey of over 500 practitioners. In my past roles as a DevOps engineer and a site reliability engineer (SRE), I've seen firsthand how a mature observability practice can be the difference between sleepless nights and smooth sailing.

Future-proofing operations with generative AI

NOBODY PANIC! The Elastic AI assistant’s got you! Transform problem identification and resolution, and eliminate manual data chasing across silos with an interactive assistant that delivers context-aware information for SREs. Additional Resources: About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

Collecting Windows telemetry with Elastic: An introduction to the ETW Filebeat input

In the world of security, being able to use system telemetry of Windows hosts opens new possibilities for monitoring, troubleshooting, and securing IT environments. Recognizing this, Elastic has introduced new capabilities focused on Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) — a powerful Windows-native mechanism for capturing a vast array of system and application events. With these new additions, Elastic users can capture, analyze, and visualize Windows telemetry using the Elastic Search AI Platform.

Elasticsearch achieves Certified Software Solution status for Microsoft Azure

As a trusted partner in the Microsoft ecosystem, Elasticsearch has achieved another significant milestone by becoming a Certified Software Solution for Microsoft Azure. This certification not only underscores our commitment to excellence but also reflects our dedication to delivering seamless data solutions for our customers.

Elastic and Red Hat: Accelerating public sector AI and machine learning initiatives

As public sector organizations adapt to the exponential growth of data, there is a pressing need for powerful, adaptable solutions to manage and process large, complex data sets. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become essential tools with the potential to transform data into actionable intelligence for government agencies. However, deploying these advanced solutions requires a robust infrastructure capable of handling the demands of data processing, storage, and analysis.

Extended protections for cloud using CNCF open source security tools

In today's rapidly evolving cloud landscape, robust security measures are more critical than ever. At Elastic Security, we're excited to introduce our extended protections for cloud — a key component of our cloud detection and response (CDR) use case. This initiative seamlessly integrates open source security tools from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem with Elastic Security's powerful analytics platform.

Elastic Observability 8.16: Enhanced OpenTelemetry support, advanced log analytics, and streamlined onboarding

Elastic Observability 8.16 announces several key capabilities: Elastic Observability 8.16 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch offering to include all of the new features in this latest release. You can also download the Elastic Stack and our cloud orchestration products — Elastic Cloud Enterprise and Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes — for a self-managed experience. What else is new in Elastic 8.16?

Elastic's redesigned navigation menu

A deeper look into our new, simplified navigation menu for Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments In recent years, the Elastic platform steadily expanded its features and capabilities to address complex and evolving customer needs. As a result, the left navigation became a vast array of over 100 menu items. While our customers deeply value this extensible toolset on a unified platform, daily users need a simple interface for quick access to commonly used tools.