What’s new in Elastic 8.14
Learn about Elastic 8.14 which includes the GA of ES|QL, improvements in vector search, new generative AI Attack Discovery security capabilities, and more.
Elastic Search helps developers implement modern search and discovery experiences. The 8.14 release includes significant speed gains and cost savings in vector search due to the GA of scalar quantization and vector-optimized hyperscaler hardware profiles, the tech preview of comprehensive retrieval augmented generation (RAG) tools for Elastic with OpenAI and Azure OpenAI, the GA of a large catalog of tooling enhancements for extracting, transforming, and loading data into Elastic, and more.
Elastic Observability transforms metrics, logs, and traces into actionable IT insights to unify observability across the digital ecosystem. The 8.14 release includes the GA of enhanced SLO management with cross-cluster SLOs, enhanced alerts and synthetics, the GA of enhanced AI Assistant features, and more.
Elastic Security unifies SIEM, endpoint security, and cloud security to detect, investigate, and respond to threats at cloud scale. The 8.14 release includes the tech preview of new generative AI Attack Discovery to pinpoint the most pressing threats in your environment, the GA of support for additional LLMs and AI Assistant functionality, and more.
As you know, all of Elastic’s out-of-the box solutions are built on one platform — the Elasticsearch platform. As a result, all users, regardless of use case, benefit from many core enhancements including the GA of ES|QL, designed and purpose-built from the ground up to greatly simplify data investigations. Powered by a new query engine, ES|QL delivers advanced search capabilities with concurrent processing, improving speed and efficiency, irrespective of data source and structure.
Other features include an API key-based security model for CCS/CCR, the GA of a data stream lifecycle feature, the GA of encryption at rest with customer-managed keys in AWS, and more.
- Encrypt data and snapshots at rest with customer-managed keys
- Retrievers (standard, kNN, and RRF) are a new type of abstraction in the
_searchAPI that describes how to retrieve a set of top documents. Retrievers are a standard, more general and simpler API that replaces other various_searchelements likekNNandquery. In 8.14 we introduce support for three types of retrievers: Standard, kNN and RRF. - Vector distance function optimized with SIMD (Neon) for int8 vectors. Elasticsearch now uses native code for vector comparison using SIMD (Neon) for improved performance on ARM AArch64 architecture processors. Segment merging of int8 vectors has become several times faster than it was on these processors.
- Int8 quantization by default for dense vector fields
- Document comparison mode in Discover and ES|QL.
- The new Spanish plural stemmer transforms plural to singular but does not alter gender, so it is suitable for particular use cases.
- Use MaxMind Enterprise and Anonymous IP files with ingest GeoIP processors
- Enrich policies can target data streams
- Write to an index after ILM shrink with the
allow_write_after_shrinkoption. - User information in the slow log by setting
index.search.slowlog.include.usertotrue.
General availability of:
- Elastic’s piped query language, ES|QL
- Logstash on ECK is now the easiest way to install and manage Logstash deployments and offers seamless operation with the management of other Elastic Stack components.
- API key-based security model for remote clusters
- AIOps log pattern analysis enables faster and smarter investigation across thousands of log messages in order to analyze, troubleshoot, and identify the root cause of an incident.
- Data stream lifecycle settings
- Links panel
- Region map
More details are in the Elasticsearch platform highlights blog or in the 8.14 release notes
Deploy / Download / Upgrade now!
Elastic 8.14 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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