Elastic 7.11 introduces significant enhancements across its Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, integrated within the Elastic Stack—comprising Elasticsearch and Kibana. The release highlights the general availability of searchable snapshots and a new cold tier, enabling cost-efficient data storage and flexibility through schema on read, which remains in beta. A new web crawler enhances content searchability in Elastic Enterprise Search, while Elastic Observability improves root cause analysis and troubleshooting with enhanced service health and host detail views. Elastic Security advances detection and remediation capabilities with new machine learning jobs and customizable alert notifications, and it supports extended data retention with the cold tier for scalable security data access. Elastic Cloud users benefit from improved storage management with searchable snapshots, autoscaling, and enhanced cross-cluster replication and search capabilities. Additionally, Elastic 7.11 marks a shift in licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana to a dual model under the Elastic License and SSPL, aiming to simplify and broaden its licensing terms without impacting most customers or community users.