The Curious Engineer

Elastic Blog

2012–2026

193 posts

2026 26

October 2026

  1. Elastic is a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™ for AIOps Platforms, Q4 2026
  2. How Elastic helps Audi Revolut F1® Team find what matters across engineering software
  3. Elastic looks to speed up Jina Model Inference by 8x using NVIDIA RTX GPUs
  4. Elastic Security integration with Google Distributed Cloud: Closing the velocity gap in air-gapped environments
  5. Making data work across boundaries: The next challenge for policing
  6. Introducing Elastic nightshift AI SRE, your always-on coworker (Interactive post)
  7. Elastic named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Search
  8. Elastic Stack 8.19.23 released
  9. Elastic Stack 9.4.8 released
  10. Elastic Stack 9.5.5 released
  11. Elastic Security and OpenAI GPT Cyber models: What frontier cyber defense means for the public sector
  12. From reactive to resilient: Findings from the Total Economic Impact of Elastic Observability 2026
  13. Bring your own key to existing Elastic Cloud deployments

September 2026

  1. Better together: Celebrating the 2026–2027 Elastic Partner Awards
  2. When AI agents swarm, can banks keep up?
  3. Building production-ready AI in India
  4. Elastic Cloud Serverless: Another Azure region
  5. DevRel newsletter — September 2026
  6. Elastic Cloud on Azure gets a speed boost: Compute-optimized instances on Azure Cobalt ARM
  7. Trust, but verify: Atomic claim checking against LLM hallucinations
  8. Elastic Stack 8.19.22 released
  9. Elastic Stack 9.5.3 released
  10. Elastic announces GA of cross-project search on Serverless, enabling teams to query across all linked projects without moving a byte

August 2026

  1. How state and local agencies can get ahead of fraud starting with the data they already have

July 2026

  1. Elastic named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

March 2026

  1. How a swarm of satellites and Elastic help BlackSky for near real-time reporting

2025 9

September 2025

  1. AI-driven threat detection and response

July 2025

  1. From alert fatigue to action: Smarter SOC workflows for defence teams
  2. 4 steps to cook up a solid generative AI data strategy
  3. Day in the life of an SOC leader

June 2025

  1. Reclaiming analyst time: Smarter investigations with AI in defence

May 2025

  1. How the MOD can achieve decision superiority against cyber threats
  2. Tips for choosing an AI-driven SIEM

April 2025

  1. App Search and Workplace Search standalone products are now deprecated

February 2025

  1. 7 lessons from IT leaders on their AI adoption journeys

2024 10

December 2024

  1. Top 5 IT challenges leaders are facing (and solutions to them)

September 2024

  1. Faster threat detection, stronger security: The Kibana advantage
  2. Encryption at rest in Elastic Cloud: Bring your own key with Google Cloud
  3. 5 pillars of operational resilience

August 2024

  1. Encryption at rest in Elastic Cloud: Bring your own key with Azure Key Vault
  2. Encryption at rest in Elastic Cloud: Bring your own key with AWS KMS

June 2024

  1. How to put your untapped data to work to transform your business
  2. Where are you on the 4-stage data maturity journey?
  3. 3 steps to advance your data maturity journey

May 2024

  1. Encryption at rest in Elastic Cloud: A strategic imperative for enterprise security

2023 2

June 2023

  1. Achieve operational resilience with a flexible data store

March 2023

  1. Previous winners

2021 23

August 2021

  1. 10 common Kibana visualization questions answered with formulas and time travel
  2. Elastic Agent and Fleet make it easier to integrate your systems with Elastic

July 2021

  1. Elastic Security prevents 100% of REvil ransomware samples
  2. Migrating the Certificate Authority (CA) for Elasticsearch Service to Let’s Encrypt

June 2021

  1. Improve search relevance by combining Elasticsearch stemmers and synonyms
  2. A new, more streamlined experience for Elastic Cloud Enterprise admins
  3. Protecting Windows protected processes
  4. Elastic License Update

May 2021

  1. What’s new in Elastic Cloud for 7.13: Microsoft Azure portal integration, Azure Private Link in private beta, and frozen tier.
  2. Elastic Observability 7.13 adds native integration in Azure console, the new Fleet Server, new troubleshooting views in Elastic APM, and more
  3. What’s new in Elastic Enterprise Search 7.13: Broader Dropbox integration and enhanced APIs
  4. What's new in Logstash 7.13.0
  5. Elastic and Swimlane partnership

April 2021

  1. Ingest Windows Event Logs via WEC & WEF
  2. Evolution of Elastic Security, free and open, and evaluated by MITRE
  3. How attackers abuse Access Token Manipulation (ATT&CK T1134)
  4. Driving Business Resilience as a CIO is All About People | Elastic
  5. Elastic and Confluent partner to deliver an enhanced Kafka + Elasticsearch experience

March 2021

  1. Detecting Cobalt Strike with memory signatures

February 2021

  1. Elastic to be natively integrated as a first-party service in Microsoft Azure
  2. How to build a malware analysis sandbox with Elastic Security

January 2021

  1. Doubling down on open, Part II
  2. Elastic Community Conference updates + CfP extended to January 22

2020 23

December 2020

  1. An introduction to the Elastic data stream naming scheme
  2. Getting started with Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch managed service) on AWS

November 2020

  1. Analyzing Elastic Workplace Search usage in a Kibana dashboard
  2. Elastic Security 7.10 equips the SOC to automate the detection and prioritization of complex threats across premises and cloud
  3. What's new in Elastic Enterprise Search 7.10: Slack content source and enhanced document-level security
  4. What’s new in Kibana 7.10.0: Kibana Lens is now generally available

September 2020

  1. Debugging broken grok expressions in Elasticsearch ingest processors

August 2020

  1. Collecting and analyzing Zeek data with Elastic Security

July 2020

  1. Structuring Elasticsearch data with grok on ingest for faster analytics
  2. Elasticsearch sniffing best practices: What, when, why, how

June 2020

  1. Canonical, Elastic, and Google team up to prevent data corruption in Linux
  2. Calculating ingest lag and storing ingest time in Elasticsearch to improve observability

May 2020

  1. How to improve Elasticsearch search relevance with boolean queries
  2. Elastic Logs 7.7 released with PCF support, MQTT support, and more
  3. How to enrich logs and metrics using an Elasticsearch ingest node

April 2020

  1. How to design your Elasticsearch data storage architecture for scale

March 2020

  1. How to instrument a polyglot microservices application with Elastic APM
  2. Elastic SIEM detection engine with pre-built rules and analytics.

February 2020

  1. How to create maintainable and reusable Logstash pipelines
  2. Cost-saving strategies for the Elasticsearch Service: Data storage efficiency
  3. Elastic Logs 7.6 released with log categorization and more
  4. Migrating from Splunk to the Elastic (ELK) Stack: Data migration

January 2020

  1. Control the phase transition timings in ILM using the origination date

2019 48

December 2019

  1. How to display data as a percentage in Kibana visualizations
  2. Search Guard Claim Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Introducing Kibana Lens: An easy, intuitive way to explore data
  4. Elastic Observability 7.5.0 released
  5. Elastic Enterprise Search 7.5: More sources for the modern enterprise

October 2019

  1. What does "no per-endpoint pricing" mean with Elastic Endpoint Security
  2. Elastic has joined The Open Group Open Subsurface Data Universe™ (OSDU) Forum
  3. Kibana 7.4.0 released

September 2019

  1. Elastic Site Search and Elastic App Search PHP Client 1.0.0 Released
  2. Alerting in the Elastic Stack
  3. Dear Search Guard Users
  4. Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud now beta on Microsoft Azure

August 2019

  1. StormCrawler open source web crawler strengthened by Elasticsearch, Kibana
  2. Welcome Perched: Security Training for SIEM, Threat Hunting, and More
  3. Announcing cross-cluster search on Elasticsearch Service
  4. Visualizing alpha with Vectorspace AI datasets and Elasticsearch

July 2019

  1. Elastic Maps is now generally available
  2. Testing data shapes with go-lookslike
  3. Enterprise search solutions with Elasticsearch at Cisco
  4. Elastic Stack in the Energy industry
  5. Migrating to Elastic Common Schema (ECS) in Beats environments
  6. Elastic App Search Adobe Magento module beta release

June 2019

  1. How to keep Elasticsearch synced with a RDBMS using Logstash and JDBC
  2. Monitoring Kafka with Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Beats
  3. Welcome Endgame: Bringing Endpoint Security to the Elastic Stack

May 2019

  1. CDL: Visualising the power of data with Canvas and Elasticsearch
  2. Improving the performance of high-cardinality terms aggregations in Elasticsearch
  3. Introducing the Elastic Enterprise Search Beta: Search Everything, Anywhere
  4. Indexing documents with the NEST Elasticsearch .NET client

April 2019

  1. Monitoring a NATS messaging system with Beats
  2. CTcue: Making electronic health records more searchable with Elastic
  3. How to instrument your Go application with the Elastic APM Go agent
  4. How to instrument your Ruby app with the Elastic APM Ruby agent
  5. Growing at the Roots | Welcoming the New Elastic Amsterdam Office
  6. Elasticsearch Observability: Embracing Prometheus and OpenMetrics Standards for Metrics
  7. Announcing the new Elasticsearch JavaScript client (RC1)

March 2019

  1. Improve Elasticsearch resiliency with the real memory circuit breaker
  2. Elastic Site Search: Wordpress Search Plugin
  3. Eye-catching Canvas dashboards on top of bike sharing data
  4. Elasticsearch cybersecurity at the home of the world’s fastest supercomputer
  5. Tips for Contributing a Plugin to the Elastic APM Java Agent

February 2019

  1. CenturyLink: Building a Network Management Framework with the Elastic Stack and Open Source
  2. ELK Stack to Elastic Cloud Enterprise: Scaling Up at John Deere
  3. KPN Harnesses the Elastic Stack to Prevent Security Data Overload
  4. Setup, Run & Debug Elasticsearch Source Code in IntelliJ IDEA
  5. Using the Elastic Stack and Machine Learning to Manage Type 1 Diabetes

January 2019

  1. Import CSV and Log Data into Elasticsearch from Kibana with File Data Visualizer
  2. Using Logstash to Split Data and Send it to Multiple Outputs

2018 17

December 2018

  1. Elasticsearch Security: Configure TLS/SSL & PKI Authentication
  2. How to Find and Remove Duplicate Documents in Elasticsearch

November 2018

  1. EQL for the masses
  2. Introducing Kibana Spaces for Organization and Security
  3. Elasticsearch 6.5.0 Released

October 2018

  1. Using the Elastic Stack for Advanced Search Analytics to Monitor CitiGroup’s Centralized Database
  2. SAP Concur: Elastic Logging as a DevOps Strategy

September 2018

  1. Signal’s Elastic Journey: Scaling a Cluster to get a reliable 24/7 environment

June 2018

  1. Interactive inputs on Kibana Dashboards
  2. How to Search Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Text with Elasticsearch 6.2 - Part 2: Multi-fields
  3. La Business Intelligence Appliquée aux Textes

April 2018

  1. Practical BM25 - Part 1: How Shards Affect Relevance Scoring in Elasticsearch
  2. Recap: Elasticsearch Machine Learning Forecasting on Time Series Data
  3. Using Kibana and Beats for Security Analytics

March 2018

  1. A Preview of SQL in Canvas with Rashid, Creator of Kibana
  2. Sankey Visualization with Vega in Kibana 6.2

January 2018

  1. Elasticsearch Data Enrichment with Logstash: A Few Security Examples

2017 15

November 2017

  1. Machine Learning Anomaly Scoring and Elasticsearch - How it Works

September 2017

  1. Hosted Elasticsearch on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  2. Machine Learning for Nginx Logs - Identifying Operational Issues with Your Website

August 2017

  1. Making Kibana Accessible
  2. Analyzing network packets with Wireshark, Elasticsearch, and Kibana
  3. Getting Started with Time Series Analysis in Kibana

July 2017

  1. Ten process injection techniques: A technical survey of common and trending process injection techniques

June 2017

  1. Welcome Opbeat to the Elastic Family

May 2017

  1. CentOS: Elastic Common Docker Base OS
  2. Elasticsearch and Kibana Deployments on Azure
  3. Text Classification made easy with Elasticsearch

April 2017

  1. GeoIP in the Elastic Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash, Ingest API
  2. Software Asset Management with Elasticsearch @ Red Mint Network
  3. SIEM Architecture with Elasticsearch at a Nonprofit

February 2017

  1. The Next Chapter: Shay Banon to Succeed Steven Schuurman as Elastic CEO

2016 7

November 2016

  1. Elasticsearch 2.4.2 and 1.7.6 released

September 2016

  1. Welcome Prelert to the Elastic Team

July 2016

  1. Security for Elasticsearch in a logging use case at Vandis.

March 2016

  1. Why Use Elastic Cloud - #1 Choice for Hosted Elasticsearch
  2. Integrating Bro IDS with the Elastic Stack

February 2016

  1. The Logstash Lines: 2.2 Release, Dynamic Config Reloading

January 2016

  1. Elastic stack for Root Cause Analysis

2015 5

November 2015

  1. Post-mortem: Memory Leak Hunting on Windows

October 2015

  1. Elasticsearch 1.7.3 released

August 2015

  1. Staying in Control with Moving Averages - Part 1

April 2015

  1. Elasticsearch 1.5.2 Released

March 2015

  1. Using Elasticsearch to build a CRM

2014 2

June 2014

  1. Logstash on OpenShift

March 2014

  1. Kibana 3.0.0 GA is now available!

2013 5

December 2013

  1. How to Use Fuzzy Searches in Elasticsearch

November 2013

  1. Building Enterprise Content Management Systems on Elasticsearch

October 2013

  1. Elasticsearch Internals: an Overview

June 2013

  1. Elasticsearch Versioning Support

February 2013

  1. Understanding "Query Then Fetch" vs "DFS Query Then Fetch"

2012 1

July 2012

  1. You Know, for Search! (inc)