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Elastic Observability 8.12: GA for AI Assistant, SLO, and Mobile APM support

Elastic® Observability 8.12 announces general availability (GA) for the AI Assistant, Service Level Objectives (SLO), and Mobile APM support: Elastic Observability 8.12 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.

Collecting OpenShift container logs using Red Hat's OpenShift Logging Operator

This blog explores a possible approach to collecting and formatting OpenShift Container Platform logs and audit logs with Red Hat OpenShift Logging Operator. We recommend using Elastic® Agent for the best possible experience! We will also show how to format the logs to Elastic Common Schema (ECS) for the best experience viewing, searching, and visualizing your logs. All examples in this blog are based on OpenShift 4.14.

Why do customers choose Elastic for logs?

Elastic is transforming the log experience to meet the needs of modern workflows In the absence of other observability signals, generally everything in your infrastructure (hardware, software, and services) emits log lines. Logs, however, are often structured at a developer’s whim and, first and foremost, serve the developer’s needs (e.g., debugging).

The EU AI Act: What you need to know

The European Union’s new legislation is the first of its kind — and has global reach On December 8, 2023, the European Union made a significant step in digital governance by introducing the first set of comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) regulations. This legislation, poised for a European Parliament vote by early 2024, is first out of the gate in regulating AI.

ES|QL Live: Empowering Your Data Journey

Meet ES|QL – Elasticsearch's flexible, powerful, and robust piped query language. Our next-generation piped query language and engine is designed for seamless searching, filtering, aggregation, calculation, transformation, and visualization of your data. Join Elastic and our customer CDW for an exclusive unveiling of this game-changing tool that will redefine how you engage with your data. CDW’s security team tested ES|QL in beta for its security use case, and this is your chance to hear CDW’s initial impressions of adapting to a new syntax and the impressive results achieved – so far.

The future of generative AI in public sector

Recently, I sat down with Adelaide O’Brien, research vice president at IDC Government Insights, to discuss the current and future state of generative AI in the public sector worldwide. The full conversation is available to view on demand, but I also wanted to highlight some of the takeaways from the discussion.

Configuring Elastic Agent's new output to Kafka

Introducing Elastic Agent's new feature: native output to Kafka. With this latest addition, Elastic’s users can now effortlessly route their data to Kafka clusters, unlocking unparalleled scalability and flexibility in data streaming and processing. In this video, we'll guide you through a step-by-step configuration with Fleet and Confluent Cloud.

Paving the way for modern search workflows and generative AI apps

Elastic’s innovative investments to support an open ecosystem and a simpler developer experience In this blog, we want to share the investments that Elastic® is making to simplify your experience as you build AI applications. We know that developers have to stay nimble in today’s fast-evolving AI environment. Yet, common challenges make building generative AI applications needlessly rigid and complicated. To name just a few.