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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Breaking down AI complexity: Your gateway to production-ready applications with Elasticsearch — the world's most downloaded vector database Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming the business landscape we’ve come to know.

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.

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?

With the precision of search and the intelligence of AI, Cisco uses Elastic on Google Cloud to create richer search experiences, so support engineers can quickly find the answers they need. Scaling from this success, Cisco's Search team added AI models, semantic search, and vector search to more than 50 internal- and external-facing apps, helping them innovate more quickly and increase overall operational efficiency.

We’re excited to announce Vectorize now integrates with Elasticsearch vector database! This powerful combination simplifies building retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, allowing AI engineers to focus on building applications with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Elasticsearch vector database enables fast and efficient real-time search and retrieval of vector data, making it an excellent database for RAG applications.