Elastic Architecture Enhancements Articles

How Prometheus Remote Write Ingestion Works in Elasticsearch
MetricsElastic Architecture Enhancements

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.

Felix Barnsteiner

How to cut Elasticsearch log storage costs with LogsDB
Log AnalyticsElastic Architecture Enhancements

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.

Jeffrey Rengifo

Elasticsearch over the years — how LogsDB cuts index size by up to 75% at no throughput cost
Log AnalyticsElastic Architecture Enhancements

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.

Luca Wintergerst

Improving the Elastic APM UI performance with continuous rollups and service metrics
APMMetricsElastic Architecture Enhancements

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.

Felix Barnsteiner

Yngrid Coello

Dario Gieselaar

Carson Ip

How to use Elasticsearch and Time Series Data Streams for observability metrics
MetricsTSDBElastic Architecture Enhancements

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.

Nicolas Ruflin