Elastic Blog

Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing

We've had a few questions about our recent license change to Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Elasticsearch is open source, again

Elastic announces the return of open source licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, adding AGPL as an option alongside existing licenses. This change reinforces our long-standing commitment to open so...

On “Open” Distros, Open Source, and Building a Company

At Elastic, our focus is on building great products, form communities around them, and make our users successful.

Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Elastic lays off 7% of employees

Today, we announced an organizational change at Elastic.

Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringement lawsuit

We’re pleased to share that Elastic and Amazon have resolved the trademark infringement lawsuit related to the term Elasticsearch. Now the only Elasticsearch service on AWS and the AWS Marketplace is ...

Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013)

In this article series, we look at Elasticsearch from a new perspective. We'll start at the 'bottom' (or close enough!) of the many abstraction levels, and gradually move upwards towards the user-visi...

Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (2014)

With the release of Elasticsearch 1.1.0, there is a new metric aggregation available to users: the Percentile metric. Percentiles tell you the value at which a certain percentage of your data is incl...

Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released

With 2236 pull requests by 333 commiters added since the release of Elasticsearch 5.0.0, we are proud to announce the release of Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA, based on Lucene 7.0.1.

Opening the code of our X-Pack features

We are doubling down on open and moving our closed source X-Pack code into our public GitHub repos.

Dear Search Guard Users

We’ve filed a lawsuit against the makers of Search Guard. Here is what we know, the actions we’re taking, and potential impact to Search Guard users.

Stateless – Evolving the architecture of Elasticsearch to simplify deployment

Elasticsearch as a Time Series Data Store

Ever wondered how Elasticsearch handles time series metrics? Felix Barnsteiner from stagemonitor - an open source solution to application performance monitoring

We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall

Persistent agent memory on Elasticsearch: three-index architecture, hybrid retrieval, supersession and DLS isolation. R@10 0.89, zero cross-tenant leaks.

Elastic 7.9

Elastic 7.9 (Elastic Stack: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats) delivers new capabilities to market. Get started with a new free tier of Workplace Search, part of Elastic Enterprise Security, and ...

The Elastic Stack: Future of ELK Platform

Ship context-driven AI applications on Elastic's unified data platform, optimized for accurate and efficient retrieval at petabyte scale. Get started in minutes.

Security for Elasticsearch is now free

We are thrilled to announce that the core security features of the Elastic Stack -- like TLS encryption, RBAC, and both file and native authentication -- are now free.

Protecting GDPR Personal Data with Pseudonymization

If you’ve had the chance to read our GDPR white paper or our previous GDPR primer blog post, you’ve, no doubt, seen the word "pseudonymization" used extensively to describe one technical measure that ...