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Blogs - Elasticsearch Labs

Blogs

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

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

Elasticsearch sorting just got up to 900x faster
Building an MCP server with Elasticsearch for real health data

June 26, 2025

Building an MCP server with Elasticsearch for real health data

Learn learn how to build an MCP server using FastMCP and Elasticsearch to manage and search data.

Ruby scripting in Logstash

June 24, 2025

Ruby scripting in Logstash

Learn about the Logstash Ruby filter plugin for advanced data transformation in your Logstash pipeline.

Removing a node from an Elasticsearch cluster

June 20, 2025

Removing a node from an Elasticsearch cluster

Explaining how to remove a node from an Elasticsearch cluster.

ECK made simple: Deploying Elasticsearch on GCP GKE Autopilot

June 19, 2025

ECK made simple: Deploying Elasticsearch on GCP GKE Autopilot

Learn how to deploy an Elasticsearch cluster on GCP using GKE Autopilot and ECK.

Improving Copilot capabilities using Elasticsearch

Improving Copilot capabilities using Elasticsearch

Discover how to use Elasticsearch with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Copilot in Microsoft Teams.

Elasticsearch open inference API adds support for IBM watsonx.ai rerank models

Elasticsearch open inference API adds support for IBM watsonx.ai rerank models

Exploring how to use IBM watsonx™ reranking when building search experiences in the Elasticsearch vector database.

Using Azure LLM Functions with Elasticsearch for smarter query experiences

June 13, 2025

Using Azure LLM Functions with Elasticsearch for smarter query experiences

Try out the example real estate search app that uses Azure Gen AI LLM Functions with Elasticsearch to provide flexible hybrid search results. See step-by-step how to configure and run the example app in GitHub Codespaces.

The current state of MCP (Model Context Protocol)

The current state of MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Learn about MCP, project updates, features, security challenges, emerging use-cases, and how to tinker around with Elastic’s Elasticsearch MCP server.

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