May 8, 2026
From averages to any percentile: Elasticsearch ships native exponential histogram support in ES|QL
Query any percentile at any time. Elasticsearch natively stores OTel exponential histograms and lets you analyze distributions in ES|QL without fixed buckets or lossy conversions.
May 8, 2026
What’s new in Kibana Dashboards: flexible controls, improved defaults and a visual refresh
Kibana 9.4 ships a batch of dashboard improvements — from better defaults to layout controls to a visual refresh. Here's what changed and why.
May 7, 2026
30x faster than Prometheus: How we rebuilt Elasticsearch as a leading columnar metrics datastore
Elasticsearch now stores OTel metrics at 3.75 bytes per data point and queries them up to 30x faster than Prometheus. Here's how we rebuilt TSDS and ES|QL.
May 6, 2026
Multi-tier search with Elastic for ecommerce search governance: Fixing poor recall
Learn how to build a multi-tier retrieval strategy used to execute ecommerce governed search plans and improve recall management. We'll cover how to orchestrate semantic matching while maintaining stable results, facets, and pagination.
May 6, 2026
Three indices walk into a FROM clause: ES|QL subqueries in Elasticsearch
ES|QL subqueries give each data source its own pipeline and filters, eliminating CASE chains, restoring predicate pushdown, and making multi-index queries extensible by design.
May 6, 2026
Elasticsearch's BBQ vs. TurboQuant: 10–40× faster on CPU and lower ranking noise
A head-to-head look at Elasticsearch BBQ and TurboQuant, including throughput, ranking accuracy, and why uniform quantization wins for CPU vector search with up to 40× faster comparisons and smaller ranking noise.
May 5, 2026
Elasticsearch ES|QL views: One query to rule twelve dashboards
With ES|QL views, you only need one query for multiple dashboards. Define it once and let Elasticsearch keep everything in sync.
May 5, 2026
Elastic Agent Builder: How we taught AI agents to manage their own context
Agent Builder in Elasticsearch 9.4 ships dynamically loaded skills, a conversation context store, selective compaction, and external connectors to cut token costs by 40% and let agents handle their own context management.
May 4, 2026
Elasticsearch percolator for ecommerce search governance: translating ambiguous queries into controlled retrieval strategies
Learn how to use the Elasticsearch percolator to implement search governance. In this blog, we outline the patterns needed to create a governed policy engine in production and create a controlled retrieval strategy.