May 29, 2026
One API call per operation: how Elastic Cloud Hosted makes fleet-scale deployment management practical
Elastic Cloud Hosted adds five targeted APIs for upgrade, tier scaling, user settings, tags and snapshot repository linking, each replacing a multi-step deployment plan edit with a single focused call.
May 28, 2026
How we doubled vector search throughput on Elasticsearch Serverless
How we brought Elasticsearch's native SIMD scoring engine to serverless, and why serverless is where vector search innovation happens next.
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.
May 27, 2026
Small model, big benchmarks: how Jina-VLM beat the competition at 2.4B and what ICLR told us is coming next
Jina-VLM is a 2.4B open multilingual VLM leading VQA benchmarks across 29 languages. Plus: five days of ICLR 2026 takeaways on RLVR, sparse embeddings and retrieval.
May 27, 2026
Cutting Elasticsearch DiskBBQ query quantization time by 5x
See how asymmetric quantization cuts DiskBBQ query quantization overhead from about 20% to 4% with little recall impact.
May 26, 2026
Kibana dashboards as code: GitOps, drift detection and Terraform for Kibana dashboards in Elastic 9.4
Elastic 9.4 ships a typed Dashboards API and a native Terraform resource that bring drift detection, PR-reviewable diffs and git-based rollback to Kibana dashboards for the first time.
May 26, 2026
Cutting agent costs with pre-computed context
Pre-computing context as Knowledge Indicators reduces LLM agent token costs by up to 75% and improves answer accuracy from 60% to 92%. This post covers the extraction, retrieval and feedback loop that make it work, tested against the BrowseComp-Plus benchmark.
May 25, 2026
AI Chat in Kibana now natively renders dashboards
The Elastic AI Chat in Kibana now builds dashboards from natural language, keeping your visuals and analysis in one thread and letting you save them as reusable Kibana objects.
May 22, 2026
Kibana cuts dashboard load time by up to 25% - here's the polling strategy behind it
Find out how Kibana uses continuous polling and browser-side HTTP/2 detection to cut dashboard load times by up to 25%, with automatic fallback on HTTP/1.