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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.
July 29, 2025
LogsDB and TSDS performance and storage improvements in Elasticsearch 8.19.0 and 9.1.0
Exploring the latest enhancements to TSDS and LogsDB, including optimizing I/O, improving merge performance, and more.
Storage wins for time-series data in Elasticsearch
Explore Elasticsearch's storage improvements for time series data and best practices for configuring a TSDS with storage efficiency.