This is a technical deep dive into the authentication process — a necessary first step before addressing the authorization decisions that are at the core of Elasticsearch security. The following will be a very detailed explanation of the inner workings of a key part of the authentication process: realms. If you'd prefer to start with a broader view of authentication (and authorization) in Elasticsearch, you may want to check out Demystifying authentication and authorization in Elasticsearch.

​Have you used Elastic Maps in Kibana yet? I am very excited about multiple layer support. Heat maps, vector layers from the Elastic Maps Service, and even individual documents all in the same interface! What a fantastic way to analyze and visualize your data. But what about geospatial data that’s not in Elasticsearch? Maybe you want to overlay a shapefile of regional sales territories with sales aggregations.

As users adopt Kubernetes, Elastic products move fast to support their evolving needs. Whether you are trying to run Elasticsearch workloads to Kubernetes or want to gain better visibility into container workloads running across different environments, we are doubling down on building cloud native tools to support these efforts. This blog covers recent advancements to support Kubernetes initiatives: