What's new
Elastic 8.15
The new release includes improved semantic search at your fingertips, a new OpenTelemetry collector distribution, monitoring for Azure OpenAI, support for Google Vertex with Gemini connector, and additional AI-driven analytics to modernize onboarding of custom SIEM data in minutes. Other GA features include several enhancements in Cross Cluster Search (CCS), Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL), Machine Learning, Logstash, and more.
8.15 Enhancements
Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Elastic Cloud
Save space with improved storage efficiency of time series indices, surface better search results, and accelerate time to insights and time to (issue) resolution.
With these new storage efficiencies, you can control the granularity of your data regardless of the retention period keeping you on budget.
Search
Apache Lucene is the technology of choice behind the world’s leading vector database. All modern, generative AI search experiences are elevated with the fastest release of Lucene on the market, packaged in Search with innovations contributed by Elastic and driven by customer needs. Our latest release brings semantic reranking, more vector search tools, more third-party model providers, and promotes our native Learning to Rank (LTR) to generally available.
Observability
Elastic Observability transforms metrics, logs, and traces into actionable IT insights to unify observability across the digital ecosystem. This release includes Elastic Distribution for OpenTelemetry Collector, native OTLP profiling, AI Assistant support for Google Vertex (Gemini Pro model 1.5), LLM observability for Azure OpenAI, and logs data set quality improvements.
Security
Protect, investigate, and respond to complex threats by unifying the capabilities of SIEM, endpoint security, and cloud security. This release introduces Automatic Import to streamline data ingestion and onboarding, and includes support for Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash Large Language Models (LLMs), a new set of APIs for the Elastic AI Assistant, on-demand file scans for the Elastic Defend integration, and a redesigned way of pivoting between different contexts.
