Elastic Platform 8.14: ES|QL GA, encryption at rest & vector search optimizations

Elastic Platform 8.14 introduces the general availability of several key features, including the Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL), which enhances data exploration and manipulation through an intuitive pipe-based design. This release also sees the GA of Logstash on ECK, an API key-based security model for remote clusters, AIOps log pattern analysis, and data stream lifecycle settings for retention and downsampling. Enhancements include encryption at rest with customer-managed AWS KMS keys, vector search optimizations like default scalar quantization to int8, and new retrievers for query flexibility. The platform allows for seamless management of Kubernetes-deployed Logstash pods and offers improved security through a unidirectional trust model in remote cluster connections, while also introducing user information tracking in slow logs for better troubleshooting. Elastic Cloud users can access these features directly, with additional support for advanced geo-processing through GeoIP files and enriched data stream policies.

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