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Elastic named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

Elastic was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. In our opinion, Elastic Observability helps teams investigate faster with agentic AI with full context and reduces costs with efficient metrics and logs storage.

By Natalie Blake

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Q&A: How Elastic and Anyshift are bringing AI-powered context to incident response

Through a new integration with Elastic, Anyshift’s AI agent, Annie, can read from a customer’s Elasticsearch deployment to search logs, surface error and warning spikes, and correlate log evidence with infrastructure change history. Read the blog.

By Sunnie Weber

Observability

How LivePerson optimized Logstash and Kafka performance on GCP through benchmarking

LivePerson found that benchmarking GCP machine types cut Logstash costs by over half using AMD Milan instances, while Kafka compression codec selection significantly boosted throughput.

By Emily Chioconi Kiril Karamanolev

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Elastic achieves the AWS AI Security Distinction, securing AI-specific risks

Elastic has achieved the AWS AI Security Distinction, awarded to partners with tech depth and real customer outcomes in AI and security. Elastic Security includes an AI agent, Elastic Workflows, LLM security detections, and agentic SOC capabilities.

By Uday Theepireddy Brian Bergholm

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Elastic named a Leader in the Everest Group Enterprise Search Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026

Elastic has been named a Leader in the Everest Group Enterprise Search Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026 and identified as holding the largest market share among all 16 providers evaluated.

By Anish Mathur