Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Elastic Cloud 7.16: Integrations and more actionable insights

Elastic 7.16 introduces enhancements across Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Elastic Cloud, aiming to simplify data collection, storage, and analysis while improving performance and resource consumption. New integrations, such as those with ServiceNow, AWS FireLens, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, streamline workflows and reduce operational complexity, allowing for easier and faster data ingestion. The update also boosts Elasticsearch's performance by optimizing query processes and memory usage, resulting in lower total cost of ownership. Kibana receives new visualization features and alerting capabilities, while Elastic Cloud expands its regional availability and offers multi-user access for collaborative deployments. Additional features include prebuilt index lifecycle management policies and expanded text categorization capabilities, all designed to enhance user experience and system efficiency.