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Getting started with Elastic Cloud on Microsoft Azure

Elastic on Azure gives you the power of Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, Elastic Security as well as the Elastic Stack. You can quickly and easily search your environment for information, analyze data to observe insights, and protect your technology investment. Elastic Cloud lets you deploy your way, whether as a managed service, or with orchestration tools you manage in Azure. You can easily get started with Elastic Cloud on Azure through our listing page on the Azure Marketplace.

How to create a custom ServiceNow incident report dashboard in Canvas

Welcome back once again! This is the third and final part of this series on using the Elastic Stack with ServiceNow for incident management. In the first blog, we introduced the project and set up ServiceNow so changes to an incident are automatically pushed back to Elasticsearch. In the second blog, we implemented the logic to glue ServiceNow and Elasticsearch together through alerts and transforms as well as some general Elasticsearch configuration.

Benchmarking and sizing your Elasticsearch cluster for logs and metrics

With Elasticsearch, it's easy to hit the ground running. When I built my first Elasticsearch cluster, it was ready for indexing and search within a matter of minutes. And while I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I was able to deploy it, my mind was already racing towards next steps. But then I remembered I needed to slow down (we all need that reminder sometimes!) and answer a few questions before I got ahead of myself.

How to perform incident management with ServiceNow and Elasticsearch

Welcome back! In the last blog we set up bidirectional communication between ServiceNow and Elasticsearch. We spent most of our time in ServiceNow, but from here on, we will be working in Elasticsearch and Kibana. By the end of this post, you'll have these two powerful applications working together to make incident management a breeze. Or at least a lot easier than you may be used to!

Running Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes from Azure Kubernetes Service

It's safe to say that It's safe to say that Kubernetes is the de facto standard for orchestrating containers and the applications running in them. As the standard, a variety of managed services and orchestration options are available to choose from. In this blog post, we're going to take a look at running the Elastic Stack on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) as the operator.

How to connect ServiceNow and Elasticsearch for bidirectional communication

The Elastic Stack (ELK) has been used for observability and security for many years now, so much so that we now offer the two as out-of-the-box solutions. However, identifying issues and finding the root cause is only part of the process. Often, organizations want to integrate the Elastic Stack into their everyday workflows so they can resolve those issues quickly. This typically involves integrating with some form of ticketing/incident tracking framework.

Aggregate all the things: New aggregations in Elasticsearch 7

The aggregations framework has been part of Elasticsearch since version 1.0, and through the years it has seen optimizations, fixes, and even a few overhauls. Since the Elasticsearch 7.0 release, quite a few new aggregations have been added to Elasticsearch like the rare_terms, top_metrics or auto_date_histogram aggregation. In this blog post we will explore a few of those and take a closer look at what they can do for you.

Monitoring Elastic Cloud deployment logs and metrics

The ability to monitor your Elastic Cloud deployment is critical for helping ensure its health, performance, and security. Our Elastic Observability solution provides unified visibility across your entire ecosystem — including your Elastic Cloud deployments. Elastic Observability allows you to bring your logs, metrics, and APM traces together at scale in a single stack so you can monitor and react to events happening anywhere in your environment.

Elastic Contributor Program: How to submit and validate a contribution

Last month we launched the Elastic Contributor Program to recognize and reward the hard work of our awesome contributors, encourage knowledge sharing within the Elastic community, and build friendly competition around contributions. But how do you start contributing? In this blog post, we’ll walk through how to log in to the Elastic Contributor Program portal and set up your profile so you can begin submitting your own contributions and validating others’ contributions!

Add flexibility to your data science with inference pipeline aggregations

Elastic 7.6 introduced the inference processor for performing inference on documents as they are ingested through an ingest pipeline. Ingest pipelines are incredibly powerful and flexible but they are designed to work at ingest. So what happens if your data is already ingested? Introducing the new Elasticsearch inference pipeline aggregation, which lets you apply new inference models on data that's already been indexed.