Darryl Peek has always supported the public sector — his career has taken him to various private and public enterprises within a public sector team. Darryl’s family has a long history of military service — his brother was in the US Navy, his father was an airman, and his grandfathers were in the US Army. He joined Lockheed Martin, his first job out of college, for that reason. … [Read more...] about Darryl Peek on working for the public sector at Elastic
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3 reasons why you should become an Elastic community ambassador
3. Inspiring and mentoring the next generationTech ambassadors have a unique opportunity to inspire and mentor new developers. By sharing their experiences, challenges, and triumphs, they contribute to developing a more inclusive and knowledgeable tech community.Engaging with educational institutions, coding boot camps, and online learning platforms, ambassadors can provide … [Read more...] about 3 reasons why you should become an Elastic community ambassador
Improving the event queue in Elastic Agent and Beats
When an output worker is ready to send data, it requests a batch of events from the internal queue. The size of this request is controlled by bulk_max_size, an important output tuning parameter. If bulk_max_size is 100, then the queue will try to provide 100 events for the output worker to send.The queue also has a flush.timeout parameter. When this is zero, the queue will … [Read more...] about Improving the event queue in Elastic Agent and Beats
Elastic Stack 7.17.20 released | Elastic Blog
Version 7.17.20 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 7.17.20 over the previous version 7.17.19. The7.17.20 patch release contains a fix for a bug in JDK22 in 7.17.19 release. This bug causes Elasticsearch nodes to crash, as well as, causing data corruption. The current workaround is to downgrade 7.17.19 to … [Read more...] about Elastic Stack 7.17.20 released | Elastic Blog
Get started with Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and Microsoft Azure OpenAI
Recently, Elastic announced the AI Assistant for Observability is now generally available for all Elastic users. The AI Assistant enables a new tool for Elastic Observability providing large language model (LLM) connected chat and contextual insights to explain errors and suggest remediation. Similar to how Microsoft Copilot is an AI companion that introduces new capabilities … [Read more...] about Get started with Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and Microsoft Azure OpenAI
Elastic Cloud is now available on Amazon Web Services (Zurich)
Elastic Cloud gives you the flexibility to run where and how you want. Deploy in the cloud on Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or all the above. You can choose to use our managed service offering or manage the service yourself with built-in automation and orchestration tools.When you log in to the Elastic Cloud console, simply select your region and preferred … [Read more...] about Elastic Cloud is now available on Amazon Web Services (Zurich)
Using Elastic as a global data mesh: Unify data access with security, governance, and policy
Data mesh vs. data fabricWe should probably start with what it’s not. A “data mesh” is not the same as a “data fabric.” A data fabric allows data flowing in from across the enterprise (from the edge, the network, the applications, the appliances . . . literally everywhere) to be confidently received and persisted, making it available for delivery to any consumers who might want … [Read more...] about Using Elastic as a global data mesh: Unify data access with security, governance, and policy
Maximize IT efficiency leveraging alert management with Elastic AI Assistant for Observability
To tackle the complexities of event management, it's crucial to understand how data evolves throughout the process and its role in managing and correlating events.To begin, we collect data from a multitude of sources, a task Elastic is adept at handling with its robust capabilities for integrating new data streams. Ideally, there should be some commonalities between these data … [Read more...] about Maximize IT efficiency leveraging alert management with Elastic AI Assistant for Observability
What’s the difference? Elastic and Splunk data tiers
Layer A: Data is usually first written here, and we have the best possible performance for indexing and search.Layer B: Data is moved here from other layers and it is searchable, although the performance is not as good as the above layer. Data is backed up to an object store and does not require any user action for archival or restore — it is done automatically by the … [Read more...] about What’s the difference? Elastic and Splunk data tiers
Elastic Stack 8.12.2 released | Elastic Blog
Version 8.12.2 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 8.12.2 over 8.12.1 and 8.11.x releases.The 8.12.2 patch release contains a performance issue fix in the Elastic Security Solution. Please see our Elastic Security Solution release notes for more details. The 8.12.2 patch release also contains a fix for an … [Read more...] about Elastic Stack 8.12.2 released | Elastic Blog