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Better together: Celebrating the 2026–2027 Elastic Partner Awards

The 2026–2027 Elastic Partner Awards celebrate global partners for driving innovation and customer success across Elastic’s search, observability, and security solutions. The award…

Elastic Cloud Serverless: Another Azure region

Elastic Cloud Serverless has expanded its availability to the Microsoft Azure Central US (Iowa) region, bringing its total global coverage to 34 regions. This fully managed platfor…

DevRel newsletter — September 2026

The September 2026 Elastic DevRel newsletter introduces jina-ocr-v1, a high-performance, layout-aware document parser, and the technical preview of the new Elastic CLI for secure, …

Trust, but verify: Atomic claim checking against LLM hallucinations

To prevent LLM hallucinations and silent omissions when merging duplicate knowledge base articles, the author developed a two-pass workflow that separates content generation from v…

Elastic Cloud on Azure gets a speed boost: Compute-optimized instances on Azure Cobalt ARM

Elastic Cloud on Azure has introduced new compute-optimized hardware profiles powered by Microsoft's Cobalt ARM processors, offering up to 44% better price-performance for CPU-inte…

Elastic Stack 8.19.22 released

Elastic Stack version 8.19.22 was released on September 23, 2026. Users are encouraged to upgrade from version 8.19.21 to this latest release to benefit from recent fixes. Detailed…

SNAP payment error detection: how Elastic helps US states beat the FY2028 penalty

To avoid significant financial penalties starting in FY2028, US states must improve their ability to detect SNAP payment errors caused by both eligibility mistakes and fraud. Elast…

Australia's AI opportunity starts with data

Participating in Australia's first Parliamentary AI Industry Showcase, Elastic argues that the nation's path to successful AI adoption lies in strengthening data foundations rather…

Elastic announces GA of cross-project search on Serverless, enabling teams to query across all linked projects without moving a byte

Elastic has announced the general availability of cross-project search (CPS) for Elastic Cloud Serverless, enabling users to run single queries across multiple linked projects with…

CISA's Logging Reference Architecture for OMB M-26-14: What federal agencies should do next

CISA’s new Logging Reference Architecture (LRA) provides federal agencies with the implementation guidance necessary to meet the enterprise logging requirements established by OMB …

The only perfect Endpoint Prevention and Response (EPR) score in 2026 belongs to Elastic

Elastic Security achieved a perfect score in the 2026 AV-Comparatives Endpoint Prevention and Response (EPR) test, making it the only vendor to reach 100% in both protection and de…

Elastic Stack 9.5.4 released

On September 15, 2026, Elastic Stack version 9.5.4 was officially released. Users are encouraged to upgrade to this latest version from 9.5.3 and should consult the release notes f…