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Date Published
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Steve Kearns • Angelos Kottas
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1796
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None

Summary

Elastic 7.13.0 introduces a range of enhancements across its Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, which are integrated into the Elastic Stack, including Elasticsearch and Kibana. Key features include the introduction of searchable snapshots and the frozen tier for more cost-effective data search, enabling users to search petabytes of data stored on object storage. The release also offers runtime fields in Kibana Lens and Discover for on-the-fly data enhancements, and expanded Microsoft integrations to streamline deployment and management within Azure. Additionally, Elastic 7.13 includes new capabilities for Elastic Workplace Search with Dropbox integration, a precision tuning API for Elastic App Search, and improved data ingest architecture through the new Fleet Server. Security enhancements include central management of osquery with Elastic Agent, facilitating richer data analysis. These updates are available on Elastic Cloud, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, and Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, providing users with flexible deployment options.