Blogs

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

January 20, 2026

Context engineering vs. prompt engineering

Learn how context engineering and prompt engineering differ and why mastering both is essential for building production AI agents and RAG systems.

Context engineering vs. prompt engineering
Faster ES|QL stats with Swiss-style hash tables

January 19, 2026

Faster ES|QL stats with Swiss-style hash tables

How Swiss-inspired hashing and SIMD-friendly design deliver consistent, measurable speedups in Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL).

Managing agentic memory with Elasticsearch

January 16, 2026

Managing agentic memory with Elasticsearch

Creating more context-aware and efficient agents by managing memories using Elasticsearch.

Higher throughput and lower latency: Elastic Cloud Serverless on AWS gets a significant performance boost

Higher throughput and lower latency: Elastic Cloud Serverless on AWS gets a significant performance boost

We've upgraded the AWS infrastructure for Elasticsearch Serverless to newer, faster hardware. Learn how this massive performance boost delivers faster queries, better scaling, and lower costs.

jina-embeddings-v3 is now available on Elastic Inference Service

January 12, 2026

jina-embeddings-v3 is now available on Elastic Inference Service

Introducing jina-embeddings-v3 on Elastic Inference Service (EIS) and explaining how to get started.

Hybrid search and multistage retrieval in ES|QL

January 8, 2026

Hybrid search and multistage retrieval in ES|QL

Explore the multistage retrieval capabilities of ES|QL, using FORK and FUSE commands to integrate hybrid search with semantic reranking and native LLM completions.

Implementing an agentic reference architecture with Elastic Agent Builder and MCP

January 7, 2026

Implementing an agentic reference architecture with Elastic Agent Builder and MCP

Explore an agentic reference architecture with Elastic Agent Builder, MCP, and semantic search to build a security agent for automated threat analysis.

Automating log parsing in Streams with ML

January 2, 2026

Automating log parsing in Streams with ML

Learn how a hybrid ML approach achieved 94% log parsing and 91% log partitioning accuracy through automation experiments with log format fingerprinting in Streams.

An introduction to Jina models, their functionality, and uses in Elasticsearch

January 1, 2026

An introduction to Jina models, their functionality, and uses in Elasticsearch

Explore Jina multimodal embeddings, Reranker v3, and semantic embedding models, and how to use them natively in Elasticsearch.

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