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Canonical home
A field guide, not a feature tour
Elastic is becoming the substrate for agentic AI. This site is the public proof layer for that argument.
Read the articles, use the checklists, and treat the workshop path as the moment the writing turns into a real architecture decision.
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Thematic parts
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Flagship articles
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Resources
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Workshop paths
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Book overview
01 The platform shift: Elastic as the context layer for agentic AI
02 Search reimagined: retrieval, reranking, agentic search, and production RAG
03 Observability for the AI era: prompts, traces, tool calls, cost, and reliability
04 Security meets AI: guardrails, governance, and security workflows
05 Putting it together: reference architectures and what to adopt now
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Flagship articles
How to Use Elastic's Cursor Plugin Safely with Live Production Context
A rollout guide for treating Elastic's new Cursor plugin as a production-adjacent surface with real access boundaries, not just a convenient editor add-on.
Elastic Agent Builder Tutorial: Build a Context-Driven Agent with Hard Tool Boundaries
A production-shaped tutorial for using Elastic Agent Builder as a narrow, inspectable agentic search workflow instead of a vague demo.
LLM and Agentic AI Observability in Elastic
A practical guide to instrumenting one Elastic-backed AI workflow so an operator can replay the whole request path, not just stare at generic APM.
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Field resources
Checklist 2026-04-12
Agentic Search Boundary Review Checklist
A practical review checklist for deciding whether an Elastic-backed agentic workflow is actually safe enough for the next production step.
Use on one real workflow Open →
Checklist 2026-04-11
LLM Observability Trace Review Checklist
A replay-first checklist for confirming one Elastic-backed AI workflow is observable enough to debug before you scale it.
Use on one real workflow Open →
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Workshops and reviews
Architecture review
Elastic + AI architecture review
For teams deciding where Elastic should sit in the AI stack and which boundaries belong in the platform versus the application.
Decision memo
Design workshop
Agentic search design workshop
For teams designing retrieval, tool use, refusal behavior, and review boundaries for search-first agent workflows.
Working session
Operator review
LLM observability and operator review
For teams that need prompt lineage, traceability, cost visibility, and a replayable incident path before scaling production AI workflows.
Tracing path
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The thesis on one page
Chapter cluster · the shift
Elastic in 2026 is no longer just search infrastructure. It is becoming
the context, retrieval, observability, and security substrate for
agentic AI. The site exists to prove that thesis one article and one
resource at a time.
Elastic Playbook thesis Start with the articles →