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Elastic community newsletter — August 2026
Elasticsearch has released version 9.5, introducing updates to search capabilities, observability tools, and security workflow management.
Why it matters
These updates allow developers to store data more efficiently and implement AI-driven searches across multiple media types with less manual configuration.
The details
- Columnar Mode reduces storage footprints for analytical queries in technical preview.
- Multimodal semantic search allows querying images, audio, video, and PDFs.
- Native Prometheus and PromQL support have reached general availability.
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Elastic owns Elastic Stack
Elastic produces the Elastic Stack software suite.
Elastic develops the Kibana data exploration and visualization platform.
Elastic owns Elastic Cloud Serverless
Elastic offers Elastic Cloud Serverless as a fully managed cloud search environment.
Elastic owns Elastic Agent Builder
Elastic develops Elastic Agent Builder for constructing and monitoring AI agents.
Elastic owns Elastic Workflows
Elastic provides Elastic Workflows for automating tasks and managing human approvals.
Elastic develops the AutoOps management experience for hosted deployments.
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Jina AI owns jina-embeddings-v5-omni
Jina AI creates the jina-embeddings-v5-omni multimodal embedding model.
Jina AI owns Jina On-Prem
Jina AI provides Jina On-Prem as an installation suite for on-premise AI models.
Elasticsearch uses jina-embeddings-v5-omni
Elasticsearch 9.5 powers its multimodal semantic field using the jina-embeddings-v5-omni model.
Elastic Cloud Serverless uses jina-embeddings-v5-omni
Elastic Cloud Serverless supports multimodal semantic search powered by jina-embeddings-v5-omni.
Elasticsearch uses Columnar Storage
Elasticsearch 9.5 introduces Columnar Mode and Columnar Logs to reduce storage overhead.
Elasticsearch uses Vector Search
Elasticsearch provides VectorDB index mode and auto-calibration for vector search workloads.
Elasticsearch uses Semantic Search
Elasticsearch extends semantic search capabilities to images, audio, video, and PDF documents.
Elasticsearch uses Multimodal Search
Elasticsearch introduces a new multimodal semantic field placing diverse media in a shared vector space.
Elasticsearch uses DiskBBQ
Elasticsearch supports auto-calibration for DiskBBQ vector search quantization and oversampling.
Elasticsearch uses ES|QL
Elasticsearch executes ES|QL queries alongside PromQL and drafts detection rules in ES|QL.
Elasticsearch uses PromQL
Elasticsearch 9.5 provides native general availability support for Prometheus Query Language.
Elastic Agent Builder uses OpenTelemetry
Elastic Agent Builder records LLM calls, tool invocations, and reasoning steps as OpenTelemetry traces.
Elastic Agent Builder is related to AI Agents
Elastic Agent Builder provides capabilities for monitoring and tracing AI agents, including LLM calls, tool invocations, and reasoning steps.
Elastic Agent Builder uses Slack
Elastic Agent Builder sends human-in-the-loop approval requests to Slack.
Elastic Workflows uses Slack
Elastic Workflows sends human-in-the-loop approval and alert requests to Slack.
Kibana uses Machine Learning
Kibana Workflows can run daily machine learning forecasts on disk usage.
Elasticsearch uses Python
Developers can build video search applications using Python with Elasticsearch.
A migration tool in Elastic helps migrate Grafana dashboards into Kibana.
A migration tool in Elastic helps import Datadog dashboards and alerts into Kibana.
Elasticsearch is related to Prometheus
Elasticsearch supports Prometheus tooling and stores metrics more efficiently than Prometheus storage backends.
Elasticsearch is related to NVIDIA
Elasticsearch supports setting up NVIDIA-hosted inference models with an API key and model ID.
Palantir uses Elasticsearch
Palantir uses and manages Elasticsearch reindex operations at scale.
Noam Schwartz works at Elastic
Noam Schwartz developed a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch at Elastic.
Aaron Jewitt works at Elastic
Aaron Jewitt developed an optimization loop cutting AI agent LLM calls at Elastic.
Scott Martens works at Jina AI
Scott Martens introduced Jina On-Prem for Jina AI models.
Jan Kazlouski works at Elastic
Jan Kazlouski demonstrated setting up NVIDIA-hosted models in Elasticsearch.
Ori Shafir works at Elastic
Ori Shafir contributed to redesigning AutoOps for Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments.
Arnon Stern works at Elastic
Arnon Stern contributed to redesigning AutoOps for Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments.
Valeriy Khakhutskyy works at Elastic
Valeriy Khakhutskyy developed Kibana Workflows for ML disk usage forecasting.
Elastic is related to Singapore
Elastic is hosting an Elastic{ON} tour conference in Singapore in March 2027.
Attack Discovery is related to Cybersecurity
Attack Discovery investigates alerts and supports security operations by correlating evidence and drafting detection rules.
Elasticsearch is related to Observability
Elastic 9.5 adds Agent Observability and Monitoring, recording every LLM call, tool invocation, and reasoning step in Elasticsearch.
Related events
Elastic Announces Global Elastic{ON} Tour 2026-2027
Elastic Releases Elasticsearch and Elastic Stack Version 9.5
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