We are pleased to announce the release of Elastic version 7.15, This release is the Elastic Search Platform (Elasticsearch and Kibana) and its three built-in solutions (Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability and Elastic) Security) brings a wide range of new features.
With Elastic 7.15, the official Release of The Elastic App Search Web crawler and tighter integration with Google Cloud enables our customers and communities to build powerful new web Search experiences faster and gather data faster and more securely. And make it easier to harness the power of search to put data to work.
Additionally, with the new APM correlation feature added to Elastic Observability, DevOps teams can speed up root cause analysis and reduce average resolution time (MTTR) by automatically displaying attributes associated with high latency or error transactions.
And, as the saying goes, in for a penny, in for a pound, in for a pound. Why not protect?
To that end, Elastic security has been enhanced for Limitless XDR (Extended Detection and Response), which provides malicious behavior protection for almost all operating systems and one-click host isolation for cloud native Linux environments.
Elastic Stack 7.15 release
Elastic 7.15 is now available on Elastic Cloud, the only managed Elasticsearch product that includes all the new features of this latest release. Of course, you can also download Elastic Stack and our Cloud Choreography products (Elastic Cloud Enterprise and Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes) for self-managed deployment.
Elastic Enterprise Search
Build a powerful new web Search experience in seconds with the official Elastic App Search web crawler
With the enterprise Search solution in version 7.15, organizations can deploy and get Web search up and running faster than ever before — freeing up time for technical teams to focus on other important projects. The Elastic App Search web crawler is now available, making searching and gathering web content almost effortless. A number of web crawler improvements have made many Settings easy (such as auto-crawl controls, content extraction tools, and the ability to analyze logs and metrics natively in Kibana), while web crawlers now give customers the ability to search all of their organization’s data, even websites, using a single platform.
Make it easy to collect web content with the Elastic App Search web crawler available in Elastic 7.15
For more details, see the Elastic Enterprise Search 7.15 blog.
Elastic observability
Automates root cause analysis for faster application troubleshooting
DevOps teams and website reliability engineers continue to face significant challenges in sifting through vast amounts of data to keep modern applications performing well and error-free. More often than not, this is a manual and time-consuming task. To effectively solve complex problems, these users need to be able to collect, unify, and analyze increasing amounts of telemetry data and quickly extract meaningful insights. Automation and machine intelligence have become an important part of the troubleshooting toolkit.
We are pleased to announce the official release of Elastic Observable APM association in Elastic 7.15. With this new feature, DevOps teams and site reliability engineers will be able to speed root-cause analysis by automatically displaying the attributes of APM datasets associated with high latency or error transactions.
Elastic APM affinity is now available to speed root cause analysis and free up resources for DevOps and SRE teams
Barrier-free log collection simplifies monitoring of Google Cloud Platform services
With the new Google Cloud Dataflow integration in Elastic, log data can be captured directly from the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) console without any hassle. This agentless approach provides customers with a “simple button” that eliminates the cost and hassle of administration overhead and further expands Elastic’s ability to monitor native GCP services more easily.
See the Elastic Observability blog version 7.15 for more details.
Elastic safety
With Elastic release 7.15, Elastic Security has enhanced extended detection and response capabilities, including a threat-ending Elastic agent at the end, a new layer of defense for all operating systems, and host isolation for cloud native Linux environments.
Elastic Security Version 7.15 supports extended Detection and Response (XDR), which provides malicious behavior protection for all operating systems and host isolation for cloud native Linux environments
Prevents advanced terminal threats by providing malicious behavior protection for Linux, Windows, and macOS hosts
Malicious behavior protection is a new feature in version 7.15 that allows Elastic agents to block advanced terminal threats. In this release, Linux, Windows and macOS hosts are provided with a new layer of protection against attack techniques exploited by known threats through powerful analytics. This feature further enhances existing malware and ransomware defenses through dynamic defense against post-execution behavior. Post-execution analysis is paired with response actions that are customized to disrupt an adversary early in an attack for defensive purposes, such as ending a process to prevent payload downloads.
Contain attacks with one-click host quarantine from within Kibana
In addition to malicious behavior protection, Elastic Security will allow analysts to quickly and easily isolate Linux hosts using Remote operations with Kibana in Elastic 7.15. With a single click, analysts can quickly respond to malicious activity by isolating hosts from the network, containing attacks and preventing lateral movement. Although host isolation was introduced for Windows and macOS in version 7.14, it is now available for all operating systems protected by the Elastic agent.
We are implementing this capability on Linux systems with extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology, which reflects our technical commitment to providing users with an unobstructed way to observe and protect modern cloud native systems.
For more information on our ongoing efforts in cloud security, check out our recent announcement about Elastic’s tie-up with Build. security and Cmd.
For more information about the new Elastic Security features in release 7.15, see the Elastic Security release 7.15 blog.
Elastic Cloud
Whether customers want to quickly find information, gain insights, protect their technology investments, or gain access to all of these capabilities, Elastic Cloud is a great way to experience the Elastic Search Platform. And we’ll continue to improve that experience with new integrations that allow customers to capture data into Elastic Cloud faster and more securely.
Use Google Cloud Dataflow to collect data faster
We are pleased to announce the first integration of native Google Cloud data sources into Elastic Cloud – Google Cloud Dataflow with Elastic release 7.15. With this integration, users can use Google Cloud’s native serverless ETL service to send Pub/Sub, Big Query, and Cloud Storage data directly to their Elastic Cloud deployment. There is no need to set up an additional mediation data collector. This integration simplifies data architecture and helps users get data into Elastic Cloud faster.
Protect data privacy with officially released Google Cloud Private Service Connect
We are also pleased to announce that support for Google Private Service Connect is now available. Google Private Service Connect provides exclusive connections from Google Cloud virtual Private clouds (VPCS) to Elastic Cloud deployments. Traffic deployed between Google Cloud and Elastic Cloud on Google Cloud only travels within the Google Cloud network, This takes advantage of the Private Service Connect terminal and keeps customer data off the (public) network.
Google Private Service Connect provides easy exclusive access to Elastic Cloud terminals while keeping all traffic within Google’s network
To learn more about what’s new in Elastic Cloud, see the Elastic Platform 7.15 blog.
Read our latest blog to learn more
- Elastic releases enterprise Search version 7.15
- Elastic Observability 7.15 is a blockbuster release
- Elastic Security release 7.15 is a blockbuster release
- Release of Elastic Platform 7.15
Test our mettle
Existing Customers of Elastic Cloud can access many of these features directly from the Elastic Cloud console. If you’re new to Elastic Cloud, check out our Quickstart guide (short training videos to get you started) or our free basic training courses. You can always start using the free 14-day trial of Elastic Enterprise Search. Alternatively, you can download a self-managed version of Elastic Stack for free.
The release and availability of any features or features described in this post is at Elastic’s sole discretion. Any features or functions not currently released may not be available on time or at all.