Elastic Stack 7.8.0 brings a variety of enhancements to Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats, as well as to solutions like Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security, with a focus on improving data onboarding, navigation, management, and investigative capabilities. This release introduces improvements in dashboard functionalities with drilldowns in Kibana, enterprise-level search security through SAML-based authentication, and expanded observability with Google Cloud operations integration. Elastic Security benefits from new Jira integrations, interactive UI features, and pre-defined detection rules for Linux threats, while Elastic Cloud simplifies operations with an API, expands deployment options across 35 regions, and introduces new purchasing options through platforms like Google Cloud Marketplace. These features are aimed at providing streamlined workflows, enhanced visibility, and effective threat detection across various environments, making the Elastic Stack and its cloud offerings more robust and user-friendly.