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Enhanced monitoring of Amazon EKS with Elastic add-on capabilities

Easily enable Elastic add-on within the Amazon EKS Console for streamlined monitoring and quick data onboarding. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) makes running Kubernetes on AWS simple and scalable. But as your workloads grow, so does the need for robust monitoring and observability. Enter Elastic Agent, a powerful, unified way to collect logs, metrics, and security data from your EKS clusters, all managed through Elastic Fleet.

Why Our Google Cloud Partnership Signals the Future of Cloud-Native Security Operations

When we decided to join Google Cloud Partner Advantage, it wasn't just about expanding our reach or checking a partnership box. It represents our belief that the future of enterprise security operations is fundamentally cloud-native—and that belief is driving how we think about solving the data crisis facing security teams today. The announcement comes at a critical inflection point.

Do you Grok It?

Most people are probably familiar with the word “grok” from Robert A. Heinlein’s novel A Stranger in a Strange Land, in which it is used to describe a deep, almost mystical understanding of something. ‍ Grok is also the name of a plugin for LogStash that enables you to parse and analyze log data using a syntax similar to regular expressions, but specialized for various log formats and fields.

How Dropbox rebuilt its logging stack with Grafana Loki after a data center went dark

Two years ago, a power outage knocked a Dropbox data center offline. It wasn’t just any data center. It was the only one where Dropbox hosted Grafana Loki, meaning engineers couldn’t access their log data. “We had considered a data center outage when we were rolling out Loki, but it had just never risen up in priority enough to get put into multiple data centers,” said Chris Hodges, an infrastructure software engineer at the cloud storage company.

Drive Public Sector Efficiencies of Scale with Splunk and AWS

Today’s public sector organizations are tasked with delivering a staggering amount of technology capabilities to support a growing set of digital services, meet IT modernization goals, and continue to protect against a wide range of attack vectors. Cloud technology adoption has played a significant role in ensuring that ongoing IT modernization not only aligns with each organization’s mission-strategic capabilities but also enables efficiencies of scale.

Observo AI Supercharges Google SecOps for Smarter Security

Security teams love the power of Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle)—fast detection, scalable infrastructure, and native integration across Google Cloud. But there’s a challenge most organizations still struggle with: the cost, complexity, and chaos of raw telemetry data. Security data doubles every 2-3 years. Without control and context, even the best SIEM platforms can be overwhelmed with noise. That’s where Observo AI comes in.

Elastic Cloud Serverless now generally available on Microsoft Azure

Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search solutions — without managing infrastructure. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure — now available in the EastUS region. Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search solutions without managing infrastructure.