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Discover the latest in Search AI
Learn about the latest enhancements, features, and updates from Elastic. Whether you're looking to optimize your search experience, enhance observability, or strengthen your security — our newest innovations are designed to help you do more with your data.
9.0 and 8.18 enhancements
Directly join data and event streams in real time with lookup indexes. Access models easily for semantic search. Mix KQL's expressive filtering with ES|QL's transformation power. Try all this and more!
Search
The best vector database is now even better with Elasticsearch BBQ - learn about our latest accuracy improvements and comparison against OpenSearch.
Also included in this release:
- ES|QL capabilities for better intuitiveness and speed in your search
- Elastic Rerank with simple Inference API syntax, requires no configuration
Observability
All components of Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) are now GA, including the EDOT Collector and language SDKs.
Also included in this release:
- LLM observability providing visibility into the performance, cost, safety, and reliability of Gen AI-enabled applications
Security
Ease migration of SIEM rules to Elastic Security. Simply upload your rules and let AI do the rest.
Also included in this release:
- Attack Discovery is smarter, Automatic Import boosts API support, and AI Assistant cites custom sources
- Easier customization and upkeep of prebuilt rules
8.17 enhancements
Elasticsearch logsdb index mode
With the general availability of the Elasticsearch specialized logsdb index mode, Elastic has dramatically reduced the storage footprint of log data in Elasticsearch by up to 65%. This allows you to store more observability and security data without exceeding your budget, while keeping all data accessible and searchable.
Elastic Rerank
Get a semantic boost for full-text search with Elastic's highly performant and efficient semantic reranking model, now in technical preview. Elastic Rerank model integrates with third-party models for semantic re-ranking, making it much easier to get started with relevance tuning.
8.16 enhancements
Explore an updated Kibana experience. Stay in command of your data with ES|QL. Try flexible chunking strategies with word- or sequence-based strategy.
Search
Learn how you can employ the industry's first vector database with Better Binary Quantization (BBQ), optimized for large workloads.
Also included in this release:
- Production-ready hybrid conversational search with retrievers and reciprocal rank fusion
- Streamlined getting-started workflows
- Elastic AI Assistant for Search
Observability
Included in this release:
- LLM observability extended to Amazon Bedrock
- OTel data ingestion that just works
- Log analytics enhancements
Security
Included in this release:
- Ability to ingest custom knowledge sources into Elastic AI Assistant
- Contextual cloud protection included in security analytics
