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Discover the latest in Search AI
Learn about the latest enhancements, features, and updates from Elastic. Whether you're looking to optimize your search experience, enhance observability, or strengthen your security — our newest innovations are designed to help you do more with your data.
8.17 enhancements
Elasticsearch logsdb index mode
With the general availability of the Elasticsearch specialized logsdb index mode, Elastic has dramatically reduced the storage footprint of log data in Elasticsearch by up to 65%. This allows you to store more observability and security data without exceeding your budget, while keeping all data accessible and searchable.
Elastic Rerank
Get a semantic boost for full-text search with Elastic's highly performant and efficient semantic reranking model, now in technical preview. Elastic Rerank model integrates with third-party models for semantic re-ranking, making it much easier to get started with relevance tuning.
8.16 enhancements
Explore an updated Kibana experience. Stay in command of your data with ES|QL. Try flexible chunking strategies with word- or sequence-based strategy.
Search
Learn how you can employ the industry's first vector database with Better Binary Quantization (BBQ), optimized for large workloads.
Also included in this release:
- Production-ready hybrid conversational search with retrievers and reciprocal rank fusion
- Streamlined getting-started workflows
- Elastic AI Assistant for Search
Observability
Included in this release:
- LLM observability extended to Amazon Bedrock
- OTel data ingestion that just works
- Log analytics enhancements
Security
Included in this release:
- Ability to ingest custom knowledge sources into Elastic AI Assistant
- Contextual cloud protection included in security analytics
