Category: ES|QL
Articles tagged ES|QL

One command. Natural language. Your Elasticsearch data, straight to the terminal.
Query your Elasticsearch data from the terminal in plain English. The official Elastic GitHub Copilot CLI plugin generates and runs ES|QL queries against your cluster. No Kibana, no manual syntax.

Piping Hot: Bringing ES|QL to Your Grafana Dashboards Using the Elasticsearch Plugin
You can now write ES|QL queries in Grafana with the Elasticsearch plugin. Learn how to enable it and write pipe-based queries directly in the Grafana UI.

Building a multilingual voice agent with Elastic Agent Builder & Sarvam AI
A working demo combining Sarvam AI speech with Elastic Agent Builder: identity verification, per-customer ES|QL queries, and mid-call language switching across 22 Indian languages without multilingual indices.

Bringing it together: How we rebuilt Elasticsearch as a columnar metrics engine; 6.6x less storage, 160x faster queries
Elasticsearch metrics in version 9.4 run on a fully columnar engine: 6.6x less storage, 160x faster queries, native PromQL and OTel support.

Elasticsearch ES|QL: Now with Views, Subqueries, and Schema-on-Read
Query fields you never mapped, combine indices with different schemas in one pipeline, and reuse query logic as named views. ES|QL's most significant data access expansion yet.

Approximate queries in Elasticsearch ES|QL: 100x faster on billions of records, with built-in confidence intervals
ES|QL now supports approximate query execution. Add one line to your queries, and get results orders of magnitude faster, with built-in confidence intervals that tell you exactly how much to trust them.

Don't leave metrics on the table: query them with the ES|QL TS command
Recalibrate your mental model for time series queries: learn why FROM can produce inaccurate results for metrics, how TS fixes that, and when to use each command.

Elasticsearch ES|QL “schema on read”: Your unmapped fields were there all along
ES|QL's new unmapped fields feature makes any never-mapped field queryable against historical data (no reindexing needed).

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.

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.

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.
