Amazon company first product release , within the framework of which a completely open edition of the platform for searching, analyzing and storing data was prepared . The published edition is suitable for enterprise use and includes , available only in the commercial version of the original Elasticsearch. All project components licensed under Apache 2.0. Ready assemblies are prepared in formats и , and also in the form и individual plugins.
The release is notable for synchronizing platform components with the Elasticsearch 7.0 and Kibana UI 7.0 branches, and ensuring full compatibility with them. This includes features such as SQL support, notification generation, cluster performance diagnostic mechanisms and additional security tools (authentication via Active Directory, Kerberos, SAML and OpenID, implementation of a single entry point (SSO), traffic encryption support, differentiation system role-based access (RBAC), detailed audit logging).
Key changes from pre-releases:
- The module for tracking events and generating alerts, which allows you to monitor the state of data and automatically send notifications when certain checks are triggered, has been added the ability to control the intensity of sending notifications through the Kibana user interface. Also added are visual indicators that allow you to use SQL queries as criteria for monitoring;
- The security tools support a new configuration syntax and the ability to specify settings in YAML format.
The version of the module for authentication in LDAP/Active Directory has been updated, in which support for querying multiple role bases has appeared and a more functional connection pool has been implemented; - Additional coverage tests have been added to the module for using SQL, and support for selective enabling and disabling of certain SQL features has been implemented. Added support for converting fields with the datetime type taking into account time zones in the SQL JDBC driver;
- The Job Scheduler module is included, which provides an SPI interface for other plugins to perform periodic jobs. The scheduling of work execution can be done both by setting the interval for the frequency of their call, and in the Cron style. Blocking is supported to protect against overlapping execution of long-running jobs.
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