Blogs

Developer insights and practical how-to articles from our experts to inspire and empower your search experience

How big is too big? Elasticsearch sizing best practices

There’s no hard size limit in Elasticsearch, but there are clear signals you've outgrown your setup. Learn how to size shards, manage node limits, choose storage by tier, and use AutoOps to catch problems before they happen.

How big is too big? Elasticsearch sizing best practices
New ES|QL plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

April 13, 2026

New ES|QL plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

Build and run ES|QL queries in your IDE with the new plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.

Unsupervised document clustering with Elasticsearch + Jina embeddings

Unsupervised document clustering with Elasticsearch + Jina embeddings

A practical, reproducible approach to unsupervised document clustering with Elasticsearch and Jina embeddings.

Why ecommerce search needs governance

April 9, 2026

Why ecommerce search needs governance

Learn why ecommerce search falls short without governance and how a control layer ensures predictable and intent-driven results, thus improving retrieval.

How to build agentic AI applications with Mastra and Elasticsearch

April 8, 2026

How to build agentic AI applications with Mastra and Elasticsearch

Learn how to build agentic AI applications using Mastra and Elasticsearch through a practical example.

Migrating your OpenShift Elasticsearch 6.x cluster to Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)

April 8, 2026

Migrating your OpenShift Elasticsearch 6.x cluster to Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)

A step-by-step guide on how to migrate from the legacy OpenShift Elasticsearch Operator (ES 6.x) to the modern Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK).

Semantic search, now multilingual by default

April 7, 2026

Semantic search, now multilingual by default

semantic_text now defaults to jina-embeddings-v5-text on Elastic Inference Service, enabling multilingual semantic search in Elasticsearch.

How to compare two Elasticsearch indices and find missing documents

April 6, 2026

How to compare two Elasticsearch indices and find missing documents

Exploring approaches for comparing two Elasticsearch indices and finding missing documents.

Monitoring Kibana dashboard views with Elastic Workflows

Monitoring Kibana dashboard views with Elastic Workflows

Learn how to use Elastic Workflows to collect Kibana dashboard view metrics every 30 minutes and index them into Elasticsearch, so you can build custom analytics and visualizations on top of your own data.

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