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Lighter by default: Excluding vectors from source

Elasticsearch now excludes vectors from source by default, saving space and improving performance while keeping vectors accessible when needed.

Lighter by default: Excluding vectors from source
Failure store: see what didn’t make it

August 13, 2025

Failure store: see what didn’t make it

Learn about failure store, a new feature in the Elastic Stack that captures and indexes previously lost events.

Introducing a more powerful, resilient, and observable ES|QL in Elasticsearch 8.19 & 9.1

July 29, 2025

Introducing a more powerful, resilient, and observable ES|QL in Elasticsearch 8.19 & 9.1

Exploring ES|QL enhancements in Elasticsearch 8.19 & 9.1, including built-in resilience to failures, new monitoring and observability capabilities, and more.

Unify your data: Cross-cluster search with ES|QL is now generally available!

July 29, 2025

Unify your data: Cross-cluster search with ES|QL is now generally available!

Cross-Cluster search with ES|QL is now GA! Query data across multiple clusters with a single, elegant query. Learn about its performance, resilience, and syntax.

LogsDB and TSDS performance and storage improvements in Elasticsearch 8.19.0 and 9.1.0

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.

Elasticsearch now with BBQ by default & ACORN for filtered vector search

Elasticsearch now with BBQ by default & ACORN for filtered vector search

Explore how Elasticsearch's vector search now delivers better results faster, and at a lower cost.

Elasticsearch sorting just got up to 900x faster

June 30, 2025

Elasticsearch sorting just got up to 900x faster

Discover how we sped up Elasticsearch sorting with faster float/half_float sorting and latency improvements in integer sorting

How we rebuilt autocomplete for ES|QL

How we rebuilt autocomplete for ES|QL

How we rearchitected an autocomplete engine for ES|QL to support language evolution instead of resisting it.

Native joins available in Elasticsearch 8.18

April 15, 2025

Native joins available in Elasticsearch 8.18

Exploring LOOKUP JOIN, a new ES|QL command available in tech preview in Elasticsearch 8.18.

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