From 97e963535399137552c54504d007f1746425e823 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Birnstiehl Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:59:21 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [Observability] 9.5.4 release notes --- release-notes/elastic-observability/index.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/release-notes/elastic-observability/index.md b/release-notes/elastic-observability/index.md index 59e4641174..fc7cdd66a8 100644 --- a/release-notes/elastic-observability/index.md +++ b/release-notes/elastic-observability/index.md @@ -21,6 +21,16 @@ To check for security updates, go to [Security announcements for the Elastic sta % ### Fixes [elastic-observability-next-fixes] % * +## 9.5.4 [elastic-observability-9.5.4-release-notes] + +### Features and enhancements [elastic-observability-9.5.4-features-enhancements] +* Adds a **Can run tests manually** sub-feature privilege to Synthetics, allowing read-only users to trigger on-demand tests for existing monitors without monitor write access [#282149]({{kib-pull}}282149). + +### Fixes [elastic-observability-9.5.4-fixes] +* Fixes the AI Assistant **Help me understand this alert** action hanging when alerts lack entity context by skipping unscoped log rate and log category analyses [#290244]({{kib-pull}}290244). +* Fixes Custom threshold and Metric threshold rules so grouped alerts stay active when **If there is no data** is set to **Do nothing** [#289623]({{kib-pull}}289623). +* Fixes Alerting V2 rules not saving when all tags are removed, causing the previous tags to reappear when the rule is reopened [#288962]({{kib-pull}}288962). +* Relabels the top-level **Alerting** privilege section in **Roles** to **Alerting V2** and marks each Alerting V2 sub-privilege as experimental [#288163]({{kib-pull}}288163). ## 9.5.3 [elastic-observability-9.5.3-release-notes] From 51bd4f865984cbcce136896930b19fcf20d61513 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Birnstiehl <114418652+mdbirnstiehl@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:44:16 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Apply batched suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: Nastasha Solomon <79124755+nastasha-solomon@users.noreply.github.com> --- release-notes/elastic-observability/index.md | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/release-notes/elastic-observability/index.md b/release-notes/elastic-observability/index.md index fc7cdd66a8..ace733dba1 100644 --- a/release-notes/elastic-observability/index.md +++ b/release-notes/elastic-observability/index.md @@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ To check for security updates, go to [Security announcements for the Elastic sta ### Fixes [elastic-observability-9.5.4-fixes] * Fixes the AI Assistant **Help me understand this alert** action hanging when alerts lack entity context by skipping unscoped log rate and log category analyses [#290244]({{kib-pull}}290244). * Fixes Custom threshold and Metric threshold rules so grouped alerts stay active when **If there is no data** is set to **Do nothing** [#289623]({{kib-pull}}289623). -* Fixes Alerting V2 rules not saving when all tags are removed, causing the previous tags to reappear when the rule is reopened [#288962]({{kib-pull}}288962). -* Relabels the top-level **Alerting** privilege section in **Roles** to **Alerting V2** and marks each Alerting V2 sub-privilege as experimental [#288163]({{kib-pull}}288163). ## 9.5.3 [elastic-observability-9.5.3-release-notes]