Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, now known as the Elastic Stack, has announced the general availability of its 5.0 release, both for download and on Elastic Cloud.
“The launch of 5.0 represents Elastic’s new strategy for developing and releasing software, and kicks off the next phase of our company’s evolution as we have greatly improved how our products work together,” said Shay Banon, Elastic Co-Founder & CTO. “The power of the Elastic Stack has always been more than just the sum of its individual parts. 5.0 takes that to the next level by giving users a simplified getting started experience, capacity to handle more data, and increased performance for solving their many use cases.”
The 5.0 release brings powerful new features for developers in startups and enterprises to achieve even more with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), X-Pack (commercial extensions for security, monitoring, alerting, reporting, and Graph), and Elastic Cloud. The 5.0 release aligns all of Elastic’s products on the same release schedule to make it even easier and faster for developers to build, test, and upgrade their applications.
Some of the new 5.0 features include:
Elasticsearch 5.0
- 80% increase in indexing performance
- 25% increase in search performance with Lucene 6 updates (multi-dimensional points)
- 50% query improvement to geopoint search with implementation of LatLonPoint
- A new Instant Aggregations feature to enable better caching of search requests
- A new, safe default scripting language called Painless
Kibana 5.0
- Timelion is now a supported app for time series data
- New Sharing UI to share dashboards and visualizations
- Ability to set scripting language for Elasticsearch, including Painless
Ingestion: Logstash and Beats 5.0
- New logging functionality with Log4j2 framework
- New monitoring APIs to retrieve runtime metrics
- Native Spark streaming support with Elasticsearch for Hadoop connector
- Metricbeat to get metrics from external services and send data to Elasticsearch
- Release of Ingest Node for pre-processing and enriching documents
X-Pack 5.0
- One click install of X-Pack for security, monitoring, alerting, reporting, and Graph
- Security Management UI to allow users to create and manage users and roles
- Consolidated Monitoring UI to monitor Kibana and Elasticsearch servers
- New X-Pack reporting feature for sharing and distributing dashboards
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