ES|QL

July 3, 2026

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.

 Follow the money: tracing laundering networks with ES|QL and cross-cluster search
One command. Natural language. Your Elasticsearch data, straight to the terminal.

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

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.

Building a multilingual voice agent with Elastic Agent Builder & Sarvam AI

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.

Bringing it together: How we rebuilt Elasticsearch as a columnar metrics engine; 6.6x less storage, 160x faster queries

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.

Elasticsearch ES|QL: Now with Views, Subqueries, and Schema-on-Read

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.

Don't leave metrics on the table: query them with the ES|QL TS command

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.

 Approximate queries in Elasticsearch ES|QL: 100x faster on billions of records, with built-in confidence intervals

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.

Elasticsearch ES|QL “schema on read”: Your unmapped fields were there all along

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).

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