Elastic Announces the General Availability of Curated Data Exploration Views and APM Server integration for Elastic Agent

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Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced enhancements in its 7.16 release of Elastic Observability, designed to empower users to monitor their digital ecosystems more effectively. New features include curated data exploration views that simplify analysis without requiring technical knowledge, available for real user monitoring and synthetics. The Elastic Agent now offers centralized management and one-click integrations. Additionally, the release includes AWS FireLens integration for streamlined log management, and new certified apps on the ServiceNow Store enhance incident management workflows.

Positive

• Introduction of curated data exploration views enhances monitoring capabilities.
• Centralized management and one-click integrations increase operational efficiency.
• APM Server integration simplifies Elastic cluster setups for development teams.
• New certified apps on ServiceNow Store improve incident management for ITOps and DevOps.
• AWS FireLens integration simplifies log shipping and reduces operational complexity.

Negative

• None.

Accelerating Troubleshooting and Extending Visibility into Complex and Distributed Cloud Native Environments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) (“Elastic”), the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, announced new features and enhancements across the Elastic Observability solution in its 7.16 release, enabling customers to observe and protect their entire digital ecosystem.

Enhanced capabilities include the introduction of curated data exploration views to provide users with the ability to visualize and overlay multiple dimensions of data. Curated data exploration views give site reliability engineering and DevOps teams the ability to analyze “unknown unknowns”—issues an organization does not know exist—without the need for teams to know anything about index patterns or field names, removing the complexity of analyzing different time periods, cohorts, and data types. Curated data exploration views are generally available for real user monitoring and synthetics, and in technical preview for mobile APM.

Additionally, customers can now leverage the centralized management, scalability, security, and one-click integrations of the unified Elastic Agent across web, datastore, middleware, edge, and cloud-native infrastructure.

A new app in Kibana offers a unified integrations view, making it easier for customers to discover all Elastic integrations, reduce wasted storage and improve installation speed by installing only the integration components they need.

The APM Server integration for Elastic Agent and Fleet, now generally available, simplifies the set up of Elastic clusters to support APM use cases. New capabilities also include observability tooling for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with OpenTelemetry integrations with tools from Ansible, now generally available, and Maven, in beta, to help customers accelerate monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting of issues during the entire software development lifecycle.

Two new certified apps on the ServiceNow Store enable customers to standardize and streamline incident management workflows and facilitate collaboration across ITOps and DevOps teams. With connectors available for ServiceNow IT Service Management (ITSM), Security Incident Response (SIR), and IT Operations Management (ITOM), teams can escalate cases into ServiceNow IT and security incidents and automatically update ServiceNow incidents from Elastic alerts.

Elastic also introduced an AWS FireLens integration, allowing customers to directly ship container logs and events to Elastic Cloud. AWS FireLens is a container log router for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launch types, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and AWS Fargate. With this integration, customers benefit from a simplified data architecture allowing them to reduce operational complexity.

For more information read the Elastic blog about what’s new in Elastic Observability 7.16.

About Elastic:

Elastic is a search company built on a free and open heritage. Anyone can use Elastic products and solutions to get started quickly and frictionlessly. Elastic offers three solutions for enterprise search, observability, and security, built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol ESTC. Learn more at elastic.co.

The release and timing of any features or functionality described in this document remain at Elastic’s sole discretion. Any features or functionality not currently available may not be delivered on time or at all.

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Chloe Guillemot

PR-Team@elastic.co

Source: Elastic N.V.

FAQ

What are the new features in Elastic Observability's 7.16 release for ESTC?

The 7.16 release includes curated data exploration views, centralized management with Elastic Agent, AWS FireLens integration, and new certified apps for ServiceNow.

How does the new curated data exploration feature benefit Elastic users?

It allows users to visualize and analyze data without needing technical knowledge, enabling them to identify issues they weren't aware of.

What improvements were made to the Elastic Agent in the 7.16 release?

The Elastic Agent offers enhanced centralized management, scalability, and one-click integrations for cloud-native infrastructure.

What is the purpose of the AWS FireLens integration introduced by Elastic?

The AWS FireLens integration allows customers to seamlessly ship container logs and events to Elastic Cloud, simplifying data architecture.

What role do the new certified apps on the ServiceNow Store play for Elastic users?

These apps streamline incident management workflows by facilitating collaboration between ITOps and DevOps teams.