{"id":601864,"date":"2020-05-25T13:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T11:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devoteam.com\/expert-view\/top-5-takeaways-from-the-elastic-stack-7-7-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2020-05-25T13:56:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T11:56:52","slug":"top-5-takeaways-from-the-elastic-stack-7-7-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"expert-view","link":"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/en-nl\/expert-view\/top-5-takeaways-from-the-elastic-stack-7-7-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Takeaways from the Elastic Stack 7.7 Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Very recently Elastic released their 7.7 version<\/a> of their Elastic stack! H<\/span><\/span><\/span>ere are the 5 most impressive new features of this release:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. New Alerting Framework<\/h2>\n

Probably the biggest and most exciting new feature is the release of a complete new alerting framework for Elastic Observability and the Elastic Stack. As centralized monitoring and observability becomes more and more important, alerting is a crucial part of your observability strategy (or at least it should be). In this new framework you can define your alerts via a user friendly GUI, instead of creating json files and command. Users can now create alerts directly from the SIEM, APM, Metrics or UpTime applications, as well as directly from an index. In addition, pre-defined actions with third party\u2019s like Slack or Pagerduty are included as well. Personally I\u2019m a huge fan of integrating with Slack and Pagerduty. It simply works really great!<\/p>\n

2. Service Maps In Elastic APM<\/h2>\n

Service Maps in Elastic APM are new in this release. It gives you the ability to create a map of all your microservices<\/a> (instrumented by Elastic APM) and see how your services are connected. Additionally, it also shows which external services or databases are interacting with your services. Really great feature! Small remark; it is part of a platinum subscription (but you can try it for free for 30-days!).<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Collecting Metrics From Different Sources<\/span><\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s talk Metrics. With the release of version 7.7, a log of new features are added to collect metrics from different sources. How about integration with:<\/span><\/p>\n