Insights from ElasticOn 2022
ElasticON is a developer conference that elsatic runs. The company runs the elasticsearch which is now included in their ELK stack. The product line provides solutions for observability, security, and search.
I attended the virtual event on Oct 4, 2022. I was using elasticsearch back in 2016, now elastic product line is not just about search anymore. A lot of new things are coming and worth to know
Elastic Search Platform
The Elastic search platform consists of Elasticsearch (search engine and analysis tool), Kibana (visualization, dashboard), Integration (Ingestion and log).
One thing they are aiming to provide is to search and analyze all kinds of structured or unstructured data including Metrics, log files, and APM traces.
Also, the product is purchasable across aws, azure, and google cloud.
There are three main product lines:
IT observability
Cyber security
Enterprise search
Elastic Observability
Based on the ability to ingest every kind of log data, it provides an entire view of the whole system. This makes AI Ops possible.
To decide whether a system is down or not, the system availability metrics are widely used. But the real-world problem may be much harder. Some abnormal behavior is not straight forward as yes or no. The system load will not be like a straight line. E.g. people will use mobile much less 2-8 AM. So using current ML technologies to predict and decide an incident should be the trend. Also, ML technologies can help narrow down the root cause of the incident.
Elastic Enterprise search
The elsaticsearch product can support the search for not just content, but also images and audio, and video. This enabled their vector search, which is using ML to transfer everything into the vector world.
Elastic Security
Unify SIEM, endpoint security, and XDR. Since I don’t know anything about this area. I will skip this.