Quickstarts

Quickstarts reduce your time-to-value by offering a fast path to learn about search strategies. Each quickstart provides:

• A highly opinionated, fast path to a specific use case
• Sensible configuration defaults with minimal configuration required

Follow the steps in these guides to get started quickly:

• Quickstart: Indexing and search in Elasticsearch
• Build your first search query with Python
• Semantic search quickstart

The following resources go deeper into specific features or use cases:

• Get started with Query DSL search and filters
• Get started with ES|QL queries
• Analyze eCommerce data with aggregations using Query DSL
• Hybrid search with semantic_text
• Bring your own dense vectors to Elasticsearch