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Elasticsearch 9.4.0: Workflows GA, Agent Builder Skills, PromQL as a source in ES|QL (tech preview)

Native workflow automation inside Elastic Security replaces a separate SOAR tool, GA for Enterprise. Agent Builder now includes Skills (on-demand instruction packages - 5 for SecOps, 5 for SRE), Attachments, Connectors, and Plugins. PromQL has been added as a source command in ES|QL (tech preview).

Native workflow automation in Elastic Security fills the niche that other stacks cover with n8n as a separate orchestrator n8n →
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Elasticsearch 9.3.0: bfloat16 dense vectors, Agent Builder GA

dense_vector with bfloat16 elements (2 bytes instead of 4) cuts vector index size in half with minimal recall loss. Elastic Agent Builder is now GA: native chat with Elasticsearch data and a builder for custom AI agents without an external RAG stack.

Agent Builder embeds LLM tool access to data directly into the engine, a pattern that other stacks implement with an external MCP server MCP →

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