Valentin Crettaz

Valentin Crettaz

Principal Product Manager / Admin Experience / AutoOps

Articles by Valentin Crettaz

Leveraging AutoOps to detect long-running search queries

Learn how AutoOps helps you investigate long-running search queries plaguing your cluster to improve search performance.

Valentin Crettaz

Elasticsearch hybrid search

Learn about hybrid search, the types of hybrid search queries Elasticsearch supports, and how to craft them.

Valentin Crettaz

Parsing JSON fields in Elasticsearch

Learn how to parse JSON fields in Elasticsearch using an ingest pipeline to efficiently index, query, and aggregate JSON data.

Valentin Crettaz

A quick introduction to vector search

This article is the first in a series of three that will dive into the intricacies of vector search, also known as semantic search, and how it is implemented in Elasticsearch.

Valentin Crettaz

Vector similarity measures and scoring

Explore vector similarity measures​ and scoring in Elasticsearch, including L1 & L2 distance, cosine similarity, dot product similarity and max inner product similarity.

Valentin Crettaz

Elasticsearch query logs: One coordinator-level line per query for ES|QL, DSL, SQL, and EQL

Easily understand query impact on cluster performance with Elasticsearch query logs. One coordinator-level line records ES|QL, DSL, SQL, and EQL per request and provides full query text, tracing, optional user context, and CCS hints

Najwa Harif

How to set up vector search in Elasticsearch

Learn how to set up vector search in Elasticsearch and execute k-NN searches.

Valentin Crettaz

Stop guessing which query is burning your cluster: Query activity in Kibana

Pinpoint long-running Elasticsearch searches from Kibana: live tasks, origin context, and cancel when the cluster allows without living in low-level APIs.

Valentin Crettaz

Elastic AutoOps now free for all: What you get with it

Elastic AutoOps is now free for all self-managed clusters. Learn what you get with it and how it compares to Stack Monitoring.

Valentin Crettaz

Elasticsearch memory usage guide

Exploring Elasticsearch memory requirements and the different types of memory statistics.

Valentin Crettaz

Geospatial search made simple with LLM and Elasticsearch: Journey through the city

Learn the basics of geospatial search and dive deep into geospatial search augmented by the power of Large Language Model (LLM) technology.

Philipp Kahr

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