What's new
Elastic 8.16
The new release contains many high-impact capabilities across our portfolio, including Elastic being the first vector database with Better Binary Quantization (BBQ), new LLM observability for Amazon Bedrock, contextual cloud protection included in security analytics, and much more.
8.16 Enhancements
Search AI Platform
Explore an updated Kibana experience. Stay in command of your data with ES|QL recommended queries, named parameters, and faster performance. And try flexible chunking strategies with word- or sequence-based strategy.
Search
Elasticsearch helps developers build AI-powered search experiences on the industry's most used vector database with out-of-the-box semantic search and generative AI capabilities. 8.16 highlights include Elastic being the first to offer Better Binary Quantization (BBQ) for large workloads, production-ready hybrid conversational search with retrievers and reciprocal rank fusion, getting started improvements, Elastic AI Assistant for Search, and more.
Observability
Elastic Observability prevents outages with search-based relevance, no-compromise data retention, improved operational efficiency and cost, and an open and future-proofed investment. The 8.16 release includes LLM observability extended to Amazon Bedrock, OTel data ingestion that just works, log analytics enhancements, and more.
Security
Elastic Security future-proofs SecOps with AI-driven security analytics, accelerating threat detection, investigation, and response. The 8.16 release includes the ability to ingest custom knowledge sources into Elastic AI Assistant, contextual cloud protection included in security analytics, and more.
