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Steve Kearns
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781
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Summary

X-Pack 5.0.0, released alongside Elastic Stack 5.0, consolidates and enhances the functionalities of several standalone plugins into a single extension that provides security, alerting, monitoring, reporting, and graph capabilities. This package simplifies installation and configuration processes, reducing them to just two commands while introducing default accounts for initial setups. X-Pack builds on the features of its predecessors, offering a management UI for security in Kibana, an improved alerting system with customizable notification conditions, and comprehensive monitoring for the entire Elastic Stack. It also facilitates the creation and sharing of Kibana visualizations and introduces a graph API and UI for exploring data relationships. While X-Pack features are part of subscription services, its monitoring capabilities are available for free with a Basic license, inviting users to explore its extensive functionalities.