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Meet the new Cribl Search: Faster investigations with AI

Get a quick look at the new Cribl Search experience—built to help teams investigate faster, onboard data easily, and get answers from their logs without complex query languages. In this quick overview, we show how Cribl Search helps you move from raw data to insights in minutes: The result? Faster investigations, simpler workflows, and powerful AI-assisted analysis across your telemetry. Learn how the new Cribl Search makes exploring and analyzing data easier for everyone—from experienced analysts to teams just getting started.

Request Removal of Outdated Google Results: An Ops-Friendly Runbook

Outdated search results create real operational risk. Old pages can surface incorrect contact details, removed products, former employees, or content that no longer reflects your business. Once indexed, these pages often linger long after the source has changed or disappeared. For ops, IT, and digital teams, the challenge is not knowing what to do once. It is building a repeatable process that works every time. This runbook breaks the workflow into clear steps so requests are submitted correctly, tracked properly, and verified after Google recrawls.

Aiven for OpenSearch Leaps to Version 3!

We are thrilled to announce that the OpenSearch major version 3 (3.3.2) is available on Aiven for OpenSearch, only a few weeks after its upstream release! The major version 3 of OpenSearch is a foundational upgrade, built on a new, high-performance core, marking a significant step forward in performance and usability. This means that as an Aiven customer, you get immediate access to a faster, more efficient search experience, all fully managed.

AI Search Technologies and the Future of Intelligent Information Retrieval

The transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) is evident across a multitude of sectors, none more so than in AI search technologies, a pivotal advancement reshaping the future of internet navigation and information retrieval.

The Shifting Nature of Organic Search in 2025

For decades now, search engine optimization (SEO) has been viewed as a “cheat code” channel – a method for businesses of any size or budget to achieve organic growth and scale against larger competitors. Industry research over the past two years has valued the SEO industry itself at over $150 billion, and projected to grow by an additional 20% by 2030, as there are thousands of case studies evidencing the value of investing in SEO as a growth channel.

Store and search logs at petabyte scale in your own infrastructure with Datadog BYOC Logs

As AI workloads and cloud-native applications expand, organizations are generating more log data than ever. Each service, container, and model inference produces continuous telemetry that must be stored, secured, and analyzed. As telemetry grows more complex, teams must balance full visibility with new retention and residency needs.

Elastic named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Cognitive Search Platforms, Q4 2025

Today, we’re excited to share that Elastic has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Cognitive Search Platforms, Q4 2025. We believe this recognizes our continued innovation in AI-powered search and the momentum of the Elasticsearch Platform.

Future-proofing Singapore as an AI-first nation with Search AI

During the 2025 National Day Rally, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced a renewed commitment to empower Singaporean workers with AI and transform the nature of jobs as Singapore takes steps to adopt AI in business processes. He referenced an AI-powered orthopantomogram (OPG) scanner that flags dental conditions when analyzing X-rays, reducing the time taken for assessment from 15–20 minutes to 15–20 seconds.

Structured Data Demystified: A Practical Guide for Better Search Visibility

Structured data is a standardized approach to organizing and annotating information on web pages, making it easier for search engines to interpret and display website content accurately. Rather than being visible to website visitors, structured data exists within the site's code, providing clear, machine-readable cues about what each section, item, or attribute represents. This communication enables search engines to offer more informative and visually compelling search results, setting a strong foundation for discoverability and digital success.