What’s new in Elastic 8.8
Building modern search experiences, observing distributed systems, and protecting against complex threats has never been easier with Elastic. Discover the broad set of new capabilities in the Elasticsearch Platform and its three built-in solutions for search, observability, and security.
Learn more about Elastic 8.8, featuring performant semantic search with the Elastic Learned Sparse Encoder, general availability of Synthetic Monitoring and Elastic native connectors, direct log ingestion into Elastic Cloud via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, and more.
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Elasticsearch: Encode using 40, 48 and 56 bits per value, Add support for Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) to the search API, Add new
similarityfield toknnclause in_search,GA release of the JWT realm, The Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR (ELSER) model - Enterprise Search: Support for ELSER, MongoDB and MySQL connectors are GA, Microsoft SQL and PostgreSQL connectors (Beta), Use Search Applications (technical preview) to simplify adding search features to your application, improvements to Behavioral Analytics (beta)
- Observability: Synthetic Monitoring Goes GA, Ingest logs from Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, APM Server binary, Service-level objectives in beta, Enhanced rule definition with context attributes, Alert details view, Easier filtering, previewing hosts and viewing logs and alerts in Infrastructure Hosts
- Security: Detection rules enhancements, Alerts enhancements, Visualization actions and inline actions added to more places in the Elastic Security app, Cloud Security enhancements, New "execute" response console command, Delete notes in Timeline, Cases enhancements
Elastic 8.8 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch offering to include all of the new features in this latest release.
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