Follow the money: tracing laundering networks with ES|QL and cross-cluster search
The data model, cross-cluster architecture and five ES|QL queries that power mule detection and laundering network tracing, built from infrastructure most financial institutions already run.


July 1, 2026
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.

July 1, 2026
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.

June 30, 2026
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.

June 29, 2026
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.

June 25, 2026
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.

May 14, 2026
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.

May 14, 2026
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.

May 12, 2026
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).