Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

March 2023

Elastic Observability 8.7: Enhanced observability for synthetic monitoring, serverless functions, and Kubernetes

Elastic Observability 8.7 introduces new capabilities that drive efficiency into the management and use of synthetic monitoring and expand visibility into serverless applications and Kubernetes deployments. These new features allow customers to: Observability 8.7 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch offering to include all of the new features in this latest release.

Elastic Enterprise Search 8.7: New connectors, extraction rules for web crawler, and search analytics client beta

Elastic Enterprise Search 8.7 is packed with features designed to improve content ingestion and search experiences. With this release, the MySQL connector adds advanced filtering capabilities, allowing you to filter and ingest large volumes of data from MySQL databases more efficiently.

Elastic Observability: Built for open technologies like Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Istio, and more

As an operations engineer (SRE, IT Operations, DevOps), managing technology and data sprawl is an ongoing challenge. Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects are helping minimize sprawl and standardize technology and data, from Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Istio, and more. Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry are becoming the de facto standard for deploying and monitoring a cloud native application.

How Geometric Search Works for Hexagons in Elasticsearch

Geographic grid systems allow zooming into maps at progressively higher resolutions and finer grids. For rectangular grids, this is very simple, but for hexagonal grids, the situation is much more complex, since child hexagons are not fully contained within parent hexagons. This video demonstrates how we can still achieve efficient parent-child search in Elasticsearch using the H3 hexagonal grid.

The future of observability: Trends and predictions business leaders should plan for in 2023 and beyond

If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that the more things change, the more things stay the same. The whiplash and pivot from the go-go economy post-pandemic to a belt-tightening macroeconomic environment induced by higher inflation and interest rates has been seen before, but rarely this quickly. Technology leaders have always had to do more with less, but this slowdown may be unpredictable, longer, and more pronounced than expected.

ElasticON Global 2023 Keynote: What's Next? With Elastic CPO Ken Exner

Ken Exner, Chief Product Officer at Elastic shares where we've been and where we’re heading as a company during 2023 ElasticON Global. In this opening keynote, Ken highlights key innovation areas in our observability and security solutions, with a demo of ESQL, and closes off by sharing our current journey of building out a serverless offering.

Monitoring Android applications with Elastic APM

People are handling more and more matters on their smartphones through mobile apps both privately and professionally. With thousands or even millions of users, ensuring great performance and reliability is a key challenge for providers and operators of mobile apps and related backend services.

Easily configure Elastic to ingest OpenTelemetry data

Watch how to easily configure your application to ingest Elastic OpenTelemetry data. About Elastic Elastic is the leading platform for search-powered solutions, and we help everyone — organizations, their employees, and their customers — find what they need faster, while keeping applications running smoothly, and protecting against cyber threats. When you tap into the power of Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, you’re in good company with brands like Netflix, Uber, Slack, Microsoft, and thousands of others who rely on us to accelerate results that matter.

Getting started with Elastic Observability for Google Cloud in less than 10 min using terraform

This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to observe Google Cloud environments. This will only take about 10 min of working time for you to get a fully configured Elastic Cluster that is actively collecting the data of your Google Cloud environment.

How to build a scoped search and query correction suggestions with Elastic Enterprise Search

Learn the steps for building scoped search suggestions and Did you mean suggestions with Elastic Enterprise Search. This technical demo shows how to use search techniques like scoped search and query correction suggestions to help end-users find relevant results faster.

What the public sector can learn from CDM's data strategy

The US government handles massive quantities of data — via separate agencies and disconnected data systems. Having a central dashboard to track this data is absolutely essential for uncovering and sharing cybersecurity vulnerabilities before they can do harm to citizens or critical infrastructure.