Elastic Architecture Enhancements Articles

How Prometheus Remote Write Ingestion Works in Elasticsearch
A look under the hood at Elasticsearch's Prometheus Remote Write implementation: protobuf parsing, metric type inference, TSDS mapping, and data stream routing.

How to cut Elasticsearch log storage costs with LogsDB
Learn how to enable LogsDB index mode in Elasticsearch and measure real storage savings. We compare a standard index against a LogsDB index using Apache logs and show how much storage you can reclaim.

Elasticsearch over the years — how LogsDB cuts index size by up to 75% at no throughput cost
By default, Elasticsearch is optimized for retrieval, not storage. LogsDB changes that. Here's the layered architecture behind a 77% index size reduction.

Improving the Elastic APM UI performance with continuous rollups and service metrics
We made significant improvements to the UI performance in Elastic APM to make it scale with even the most demanding workloads, by pre-aggregating metrics at the service level, and storing the metrics at different levels of granularity.

How to use Elasticsearch and Time Series Data Streams for observability metrics
With Time Series Data Streams (TSDS), Elasticsearch introduces optimized storage for metrics time series. Check out how we use it for Elastic Observability.