Peter Simkins

Peter Simkins

Senior Solutions Architect

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Articles by Peter Simkins
Cut log storage costs with two Elasticsearch data tiers instead of four
Observability Labs

Cut log storage costs with two Elasticsearch data tiers instead of four

Elastic benchmarked one day of logs on SSD with everything older moved to frozen searchable snapshots, and it came out 16x cheaper than keeping all of it hot. The ILM policy and the cost model are both in the post.

Peter Simkins
Not every log deserves 90 days: per-stream retention in Elastic Streams
Observability Labs

Not every log deserves 90 days: per-stream retention in Elastic Streams

AI Partitioning reads your data and proposes child streams. Retention, drops and downsampling then become per-stream settings, so the noisy ones expire on their own schedule.

Peter Simkins
Migrate Datadog Kubernetes dashboards to Elastic Observability in under an hour
Observability Labs

Migrate Datadog Kubernetes dashboards to Elastic Observability in under an hour

See how the migration CLI translates a real Datadog Kubernetes dashboard into validated Kibana panels and uploads it to your cluster in under an hour, no manual widget rebuilds required.

Peter Simkins
Migrate your Grafana Kubernetes dashboard to Elastic Observability: same PromQL, 30x faster queries
Observability Labs

Migrate your Grafana Kubernetes dashboard to Elastic Observability: same PromQL, 30x faster queries

Take a real Grafana Kubernetes dashboard covering pod CPU, memory, node pressure, and restart counts, then migrate it into Elastic Observability with native PromQL in under an hour.

Peter Simkins