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How Elasticsearch cut metrics storage by 41% by dropping sequence numbers after replication
Inside Elastic

June 11, 2026

How Elasticsearch cut metrics storage by 41% by dropping sequence numbers after replication

Find out how Elasticsearch trims sequence numbers at merge time to cut TSDS storage by 41%, what you give up, and why it's safe for metrics workloads.

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By: Francisco Fernández Castaño, Tanguy Leroux and Alan Woodward

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