Elastic 8.5 introduces a wide array of enhancements to the Elastic Search Platform, focusing on Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security. This release includes advanced vector search capabilities, MongoDB and MySQL integrations, and machine learning ingest pipelines in Enterprise Search, while Observability offers auto-instrumentation for .NET applications to enhance visibility without recompiling binaries. Elastic Security enriches threat intelligence management, enhancing investigation and response capabilities within its SIEM and SOAR functions. Built on the unified Elastic Stack, available on Elastic Cloud, the platform provides improved search efficiency with vector search, faster log diagnosis, and better collaboration tools, alongside a new health status page for cluster performance monitoring.