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Elastic N.V. reports developments in search AI software, observability, and security built on its Search AI Platform. Company news commonly covers Jina embedding models for text and multimodal retrieval, Elastic Inference Service availability, partner model deployments, and product integrations that bring search, classification, clustering, and data exploration into enterprise workflows.
Recurring updates also include Elastic Observability features such as Prometheus ingestion, PromQL support in Kibana, and incident investigation tools, as well as Elastic Security capabilities for XDR, SIEM, automation, and agentic security operations. Other company developments include cloud partnerships, air-gapped and sovereign-cloud deployments, federal cloud authorization, and pricing or packaging changes for security offerings.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced major upgrades to its agentic security operations platform, aiming to move security teams closer to “Alert Zero,” where queues are reduced to validated, high‑priority attacks. The enhanced Attack Discovery now acts as an autonomous triage agent, hunting raw events, checking entity risk scores, corroborating evidence, and proposing new detection rules when coverage gaps appear.
Elastic also expanded Elastic Defend with automatic YARA rule generation for vulnerable driver exploits and full Windows on ARM endpoint support at no per‑device cost. Elastic Workflows gains plain‑language workflow generation, version history with one‑click rollback, graph visualization, and human‑in‑the‑loop approvals. All updates are available to Elastic Security customers and will be demonstrated at Black Hat USA 2026, booth #3444, August 3–6, in Las Vegas.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced an expanded collaboration with OpenAI on July 30, 2026 to help organizations build production-ready AI applications and agents by combining Elasticsearch’s retrieval, search and governance capabilities with OpenAI’s advanced reasoning models.
The collaboration targets three outcomes: context-aware AI agents that retrieve accurate, permission-aware enterprise knowledge at scale; agentic observability that correlates telemetry and accelerates root-cause investigation; and agentic security operations that convert large alert volumes into evidence-backed investigations. Elastic plans deeper integration through the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Cyber models in Elastic Security workflows and additional governance and data-access integrations for developers using OpenAI models.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced that Jina AI models are now available for fully on-premises and air-gapped use through Jina On-Prem. The suite packages 28 multimodal and multilingual embedding and reranker models for text, images, audio, and video, operating with zero outbound network calls.
According to Elastic, Jina On-Prem supports CPU and GPU (including small 8GB GPUs), uses standard APIs, can act as a drop-in replacement for Elastic Inference Service models, and is immediately available via GitHub download with licensing through Elastic Sales.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced it has achieved the AI Security distinction within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency. The designation confirms Elastic has met AWS technical and quality requirements for AI security and threat detection and response, helping customers address risks such as prompt injection, model abuse, and attacks on autonomous agents.
Elastic Security offers an agentic security operations platform that unifies SIEM, XDR, and AI-powered detection and response, integrates with services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon Inspector, and is available through AWS Marketplace. This new distinction adds to Elastic’s broader portfolio of AWS Competencies across security, data and analytics, financial services, government, AI, and education.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced that Gartner named it a Leader in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, marking its third consecutive year in this position. According to Elastic, Gartner evaluated vendors on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.
Elastic also reported ranking first in three of seven use cases in Gartner’s 2026 Critical Capabilities for Observability Platforms. The company highlights differentiation through deep OpenTelemetry integration, MCP support with an in-development autonomous SRE agent, and a business model claiming up to 4x more efficient log/trace storage and up to 40% faster log queries.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) reported that Elastic Security achieved the only 100% malware protection score among 16 security vendors in the AV-Comparatives 2026 Business Security Test for March–June 2026. The platform also tied for the top result in the Real-World Protection Test with a 99.8% protection rate (399 of 400 threats blocked) and received the AV-Comparatives Approved Business Product Award.
The independent tests ran on fully patched Windows 11, using 1,000 malware samples and 400 real-world threat cases. Elastic Security’s results were achieved with zero false alarms on common business software, supported by its Elastic Defend endpoint protection and unified security platform.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced new observability capabilities that unify metrics and logs on a single platform. Built on Elasticsearch's columnar metrics engine, it offers native Prometheus/PromQL support, out-of-the-box Kubernetes agentic investigations, and automated migration from Datadog and Grafana.
The engine can query metrics up to 30x faster than Prometheus and store data up to 2.5x more efficiently, with no cardinality limits. New features include Prometheus Remote Write ingest, ML-driven anomaly detection workflows, SRE-focused dashboards, and an Observability MCP App and agent skills. Core capabilities are generally available across Elastic Cloud, serverless, and self-managed deployments, while the MCP App, agent skills, and migration platform are in tech preview.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced it was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM 2026 Vendor Assessment. The report highlights Elastic Security’s unified data query language, scalability for log ingestion, and support for observability on the same platform.
IDC cites Elastic’s broad deployment options (self-managed, hosted, serverless, air-gapped), feature parity across environments, subscription model with a free tier, and significant public sector presence, including a FedRAMP‑authorized SIEM-as-a-service for the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) was named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection And Response Platforms, Q2 2026. The evaluation highlights Elastic Security’s SIEM-replacement features, open data architecture, AI-driven capabilities, and native endpoint protection.
Elastic notes its agentic security operations platform unifies SIEM, XDR, and automation, with endpoint protection that achieved 14 consecutive months of 100% rates in AV-Comparatives’ Malware and Real-World Protection Tests.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced new Kubernetes investigation workflows and MCP-based observability skills that automatically analyze logs, metrics, anomalies, and cluster events when alerts fire.
Elastic Observability now offers an agentic workflow and a Kubernetes MCP App, enabling SREs to diagnose incidents conversationally within existing AI tools and IDEs.