New release offers significant stack-level enhancements and features
for Infrastructure Monitoring, APM, Kibana Canvas and Spaces, and More
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC) ("Elastic"), the company behind Elasticsearch
and the Elastic Stack, announced the general availability of version 6.5
of the Elastic Stack. This release highlights our continued investment
in solutions for logging, metrics, and application performance
management (APM), and foundational Elastic Stack features that benefit
multiple use cases, such as app search, site search, enterprise search,
business analytics, and security analytics.
This latest release aims to help users of the Elastic Stack store,
manage, and analyze their data more efficiently, scale their operations,
and improve how they interact with their data through new user
interfaces (UIs), visualizations, and dashboards. 6.5 contains the
initial release of our Infrastructure solution and a dedicated UI for
log viewing, giving observability teams a more efficient and streamlined
way of navigating their data. It also introduces distributed tracing
support and the general availability of Java and Go agents in Elastic
APM. This release also launches a number of highly awaited Kibana
features - Canvas, a powerful way for users to build pixel-perfect
infographic experiences on live data and Spaces, a new way for users to
group and organize their dashboards and visualizations into “spaces”,
and secure access by roles like security, operations, finance, and
marketing.
“Our focus has always been to make users successful in whatever ways
they decide to use our technology, on-premises or in the cloud, using
the Elastic Stack for a single use case like security or logging, or for
many others,” said Shay Banon, founder and CEO of Elastic. “6.5 is a
MAJOR.MINOR release, showcasing our relentless execution across multiple
usage patterns of our technology, as well as foundational product
capabilities that are critical across a variety of use cases.”
Infrastructure Monitoring: New applications for Logs and Metrics
Analytics
The Elastic Stack has always enabled powerful ways to analyze logs and
metrics from IT infrastructure. The 6.5 release makes it even easier for
users to gain visibility into operational data. The introduction of an
Infrastructure monitoring solution provides a 10,000-foot view of
physical, virtual, or container-based infrastructure, and allows users
to drill into the details of any host, pod, or container, while a new UI
for log analysis provides an advanced log viewer with live tail, even on
filtered data. 6.5 also includes the first release of Functionbeat,
which adds new monitoring capabilities for cloud-based serverless
infrastructure like AWS Lambda for collecting data from sources such as
CloudWatch Logs and Simple Queue Service (SQS).
APM: Open Source APM Adds Distributed Tracing and Support for Go and
Java
Elastic
APM gives users the ability to combine APM data with infrastructure
logs, server metrics, and security events to identify bottlenecks and
issues faster, all using the same open source foundation that they are
already familiar with. In 6.5, we released distributed tracing, a beta
feature that allows users to string together transactions and visualize
the performance of requests as they flow through an organization's
infrastructure. We also announced the general availability of agents for
popular programming languages, Go and Java.
Kibana: New and Expanded Interactive Experiences with Canvas and
Spaces
Kibana has found wide adoption in NOCs, SOCs and boardrooms to visualize
and explore data stored in Elasticsearch. In 6.5, we’ve released two
major features that make it easier to share and collaborate within
Kibana. Canvas allows users to create live data presentations and
pixel-perfect workpads in new interactive ways for their teams,
including operations, business, and executive users. Kibana users with
100s and 1,000s of dashboards and visualizations, can use the new Kibana
spaces feature to group collections of Kibana objects into “spaces” such
as, a logging space, marketing space, etc. and then define role-based
access permissions and privileges for each space.
Other significant developments in the Elastic Stack 6.5 include a major
focus on usability, with enhancements and new features like:
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Cross-cluster replication (beta). Users can replicate indices
from one cluster to another cluster. Use cases include high
availability/disaster recovery, geo proximity/data locality, and
centralized search/analysis.
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Rollup support in Kibana (beta). Now it is easier than ever to
dramatically shrink the storage requirements for metrics data, by
summarizing the data intelligently at lower granularity. 6.5 includes
support for configuring rollup jobs and for visualizing the rolled up
data.
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Interactive file import (beta). This free feature in the
Machine Learning application allows the easy import of data into the
Elastic Stack. When uploading a file, the file type is automatically
detected, and grok patterns are suggested dynamically. This
dramatically simplifies the process of onboarding new data sources or
importing specific data sets.
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New machine learning functionality. Improvements in
multi-bucket anomalies; now with improved underlying modeling methods,
anomalies can be detected more accurately.
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About Elastic
Elastic is a search company. As the creators of the Elastic Stack
(Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), Elastic builds
self-managed and SaaS offerings that make data usable in real time and
at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
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