DevRel newsletter — September 2026
Hello from the Elastic DevRel team! In this newsletter, we cover jina-ocr-v1, the latest blogs and videos, and upcoming events like Elastic{ON}.
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Recent updates from Elastic, so you can tell whether this is a one-off or part of a pattern.
Trust, but verify: Atomic claim checking against LLM hallucinations
Hallucinations kept an LLM out of our knowledge base cleanup for years. Splitting generation from atomic claim verification fixed it and cleared a four-year backlog of duplicate articles.
Elastic Cloud on Azure gets a speed boost: Compute-optimized instances on Azure Cobalt ARM
Starting September 24, 2026, Elastic Cloud on Azure adds compute-optimized (ARM) hardware profiles backed by Microsoft's Cobalt ARM processors, delivering up to 37% better throughput than the previous generation Ampere Altra VMs at lower cost.
Elastic Stack 8.19.22 released
Version 8.19.22 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version . We recommend 8.19.22 over the previous version 8.19.21 For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes .
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What other companies in Observability are doing. The category page shows who’s active, side by side.
Extend Datadog RUM and Product Analytics to Shopify and Salesforce
Use Datadog RUM and Product Analytics to monitor checkout journeys on Shopify and customer experiences in Salesforce Experience Cloud.
What if your agent's hallucinations had a budget? How to start using SLOs for agent behavior
At Grafana Labs, observability is what we do. So as we started building AI agents, we naturally reached for the same instincts we bring to every system: measure it, set targets, and make reliability something you can reason about instead of hope for. That instinct led us somewhere unexpectedly useful. It turns out one of the oldest ideas in reliability engineering, the error budget, maps…
Cribl Stream and Databricks: A faster path to analytics-ready telemetry
The new Databricks Zerobus Destination for Cribl Stream helps organizations move analytics-ready telemetry into Delta Tables with fewer moving parts, less latency, and more control.
Using TypeSafe’s Jev for evals in Datadog Agent Observability
See how we wired Jev into online evals on live spans and offline evals inside Datadog experiments, using a single rubric for both.