Learn about Elastic 8.13 which includes the GA of Amazon Bedrock support within the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability, new vector search configurations, an integration filter plugin for Logstash, and more.
Elastic Search helps developers implement modern search and discovery experiences. The 8.13 release includes an expanded toolkit for relevance (including the GA of new vector search configurations, the GA of the synonyms API, and the tech preview of Learning to Rank), enhanced tools for managing connectors (to sync private data for search applications), the tech preview of Elastic’s integration with Cohere and ELSER query optimization, and more.
Elastic Observability transforms metrics, logs, and traces into actionable IT insights to unify observability across the digital ecosystem. The 8.13 release includes AI Assistant enhancements (including the GA of support for Amazon Bedrock and the tech preview of editing and visualizing ES|QL queries), the GA of SLO enhancements, and more.
Elastic Security unifies SIEM, endpoint security, and cloud security to detect, investigate, and respond to threats at cloud scale. The 8.13 release includes a refined benchmark rules experience, advanced endpoint response actions, a suite of enhancements to help users continue to accelerate their security program, and more.
All of Elastic’s out-of-the box solutions are built on the Elasticsearch Platform. All users, regardless of use case, benefit from core enhancements. The 8.13 release brings the GA of the resolve cluster API, performance improvements in Kibana, Apache Lucene 9.10, a new Logstash integration filter, the GA of Elastic Agent support for Kafka, and more.
- Improved query parallelization by communicating between threads on different segments
- Simplifying kNN vector search
- int8_flat and flat vector field index types
- Multiple results from the same doc with nested vectors
- Unified inference API now integrates Cohere embeddings
- Detect data streams that are stuck in their data stream lifecycle with the DSL health indicator
- Detect mis-configured or invalid repositories with the enhanced repository_integrity indicator
- ES|QL in the Java Client
- ES|QL support in the Data Visualizer
- Anomaly detection and AIOps: Usability enhancements
- Elastic Integration Filter: A game-changer for Logstash Users
- Elastic Agent support for Kafka is now GA
More details are in the Elasticsearch platform highlights blog or in the 8.13 release notes
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