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 (ESTC) introduced the private preview of nightshift AI SRE, an AI agent built into Elastic Observability to investigate operational issues. The agent evaluates telemetry and other context, tests possible causes in parallel and exposes its investigation steps for engineers to review. It can recommend fixes using existing workflows, preconfigured actions or commands for an engineer to run.
The preview is available on Elastic Observability Serverless and is free for existing Elastic customers during early access. Elastic plans a technical preview later this year with broader support for third-party tools and data stores.
Elastic (ESTC) introduced AlertZero, a team of specialized AI agents built into Elastic Security to automate security operations work.
AlertZero will be available to Elastic Security customers as a Technical Preview in Elastic Cloud, self-managed and air-gapped environments. Its agent groups, called Watches, cover alert triage, threat hunting, detection tuning and forensic analysis, sharing findings in an investigation record. Analysts choose which actions to automate and which require human judgment; detection rules cannot change without approval. Elastic says AlertZero supports an organization's chosen models and can be extended through Agent Builder skills and Elastic Workflows.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) was named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Search, published October 5, 2026. Gartner positioned Elastic highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision.
Elastic also ranked first or second in every use case evaluated in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Enterprise AI Search report, including first in the AI Automation Use Case. Gartner’s research represents its research organization’s opinions, not an endorsement of vendors or products.
Elastic (ESTC) launched jina-ocr-v1, an optical character recognition model for end-to-end document processing that handles complex layouts, tables, handwriting, math and 100+ languages in a single pass.
The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 3.4B total parameters and 574M active at inference, targeting frontier-grade accuracy at roughly one tenth the size of the benchmark olmOCR-bench leader. It scores 83.4 on olmOCR-bench, the highest published result among models with fewer than 600M active parameters, and adds FastMTP multi-token prediction to speed inference. Jina-ocr-v1 is available via Elastic Inference Service on Elastic Cloud, the Jina API, and on-premises or local deployments.
Elastic (ESTC) announced the general availability of cross-project search (CPS) for Elastic Cloud Serverless, allowing teams to query multiple serverless projects without moving or duplicating data.
CPS links projects through the Elastic Cloud UI, with authentication managed at the organization level and role-based access controls preserving data isolation and compliance. The feature supports up to 100 linked projects by default across Search, Observability, Security and Vector Database workloads, with higher limits available on request. CPS also enables machine learning anomaly detection and data transforms across linked projects, fine-grained project targeting via tags, and programmatic access through a new role for generating Cloud API keys.
Elastic (ESTC) reports that Elastic Security achieved the only perfect protection score in AV-Comparatives’ 2026 Endpoint Prevention and Response Test, earning Certified Leader status.
Elastic blocked and reported all 50 multi-phase attack scenarios at the first phase of compromise, with 100% Active and 100% Passive Response scores, zero false positives, and the lowest modeled operational footprint among the 14 vendors tested. The company also reports one of the lowest total costs of ownership in the test and notes this is its second consecutive year as a Certified Leader. Across the last three AV-Comparatives Business Security Tests in 2025–2026, Elastic was the only vendor to achieve 100% malware protection in every cycle.
Elastic (ESTC) launched Elasticsearch Vector Database, a new serverless vector database on Elastic Cloud Serverless for large-scale AI and vector search applications.
The service provides expert-tuned defaults so developers can index, embed and chunk data via a single field type, with hybrid full-text and vector search in one query. It supports text, image and multi-modal vectors on a single index and can use customer models or Jina AI embedding and reranking models on managed GPUs through Elastic Inference Service. Better Binary Quantization can shrink vector memory by up to 32x, helping scale to hundreds of billions of vectors with pricing based on data and search capacity, and no charges for background operations.
Elastic (ESTC) plans to integrate OpenAI GPT cyber models into Elastic Security through the OpenAI Daybreak Defense Network and Elastic Inference Service. The goal is to embed specialized cyber reasoning into existing security workflows to help teams triage alerts, investigate incidents, engineer detections and remediate threats faster, without separate model infrastructure.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced the internet availability of proxy materials for its 2026 Annual General Meeting of shareholders, scheduled for October 15, 2026, at 5:00 PM CEST. The Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2026, and proxy statement are accessible via ir.elastic.co and free hard copies are available on request.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) has nominated veteran Microsoft executive Julia Liuson to its Board of Directors, bringing more than 30 years of experience in software engineering, AI, developer platforms and enterprise technology. Liuson most recently served as President of Microsoft’s Developer Division, overseeing Visual Studio, .NET, Azure developer services and GitHub, including the integration of AI through GitHub Copilot.
According to Elastic, her nomination is subject to shareholder approval at the October 2026 annual general meeting in accordance with Dutch law. Upon election, she will also join the Compensation Committee. Separately, board member Caryn Marooney has notified Elastic she will not stand for re-appointment when her term expires in October 2026.