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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.
May 28, 2026
How Elasticsearch cuts time-series storage by 34% with synthetic _id and bloom filters
Learn how synthetic _id uses bloom filters to cut time-series storage by 34% while maintaining full API compatibility.
August 5, 2024
Introducing Serverless Thin Indexing Shards
Learn about Thin Indexing Shards, a new component developed especially for Elasticsearch in our Elastic Cloud Serverless offering.