Blogsby GlyphHow Elasticsearch cuts time-series storage by 34% with synthetic _id and bloom filters
Learn how synthetic _id uses bloom filters to cut time-series storage by 34% while maintaining full API compatibility.
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Thu May 282 posts
How we doubled vector search throughput on Elasticsearch Serverless
How we brought Elasticsearch's native SIMD scoring engine to serverless, and why serverless is where vector search innovation happens next.
Wed May 272 posts
Cutting Elasticsearch DiskBBQ query quantization time by 5x
See how asymmetric quantization cuts DiskBBQ query quantization overhead from about 20% to 4% with little recall impact.
Small model, big benchmarks: how Jina-VLM beat the competition at 2.4B and what ICLR told us is coming next
Jina-VLM is a 2.4B open multilingual VLM leading VQA benchmarks across 29 languages. Plus: five days of ICLR 2026 takeaways on RLVR, sparse embeddings and retrieval.
Fri May 221 post
Kibana cuts dashboard load time by up to 25% - here's the polling strategy behind it
Find out how Kibana uses continuous polling and browser-side HTTP/2 detection to cut dashboard load times by up to 25%, with automatic fallback on HTTP/1.
Thu May 142 posts
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.
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.
Wed May 131 post
Ecommerce search optimization using margin and popularity boosting in Elasticsearch
Learn how to optimize ecommerce search using margin and popularity boosting. This blog explains how a governed control plane treats economic optimization in Elasticsearch.
Mon May 111 post
Bringing Fire to Elasticsearch: Adding Native Prometheus API Support
Query Elasticsearch directly from Prometheus-compatible clients via native PromQL, discovery, and metadata endpoints. Send data to Elasticsearch with Prometheus Remote Write.
Fri May 81 post
From averages to any percentile: Elasticsearch ships native exponential histogram support in ES|QL
Query any percentile at any time. Elasticsearch natively stores OTel exponential histograms and lets you analyze distributions in ES|QL without fixed buckets or lossy conversions.
Wed May 62 posts
Three indices walk into a FROM clause: ES|QL subqueries in Elasticsearch
ES|QL subqueries give each data source its own pipeline and filters, eliminating CASE chains, restoring predicate pushdown, and making multi-index queries extensible by design.
Multi-tier search with Elastic for ecommerce search governance: Fixing poor recall
Learn how to build a multi-tier retrieval strategy used to execute ecommerce governed search plans and improve recall management. We'll cover how to orchestrate semantic matching while maintaining stable results, facets, and pagination.
Tue May 51 post
Elasticsearch ES|QL views: One query to rule twelve dashboards
With ES|QL views, you only need one query for multiple dashboards. Define it once and let Elasticsearch keep everything in sync.
Mon May 42 posts
Elasticsearch percolator for ecommerce search governance: translating ambiguous queries into controlled retrieval strategies
Learn how to use the Elasticsearch percolator to implement search governance. In this blog, we outline the patterns needed to create a governed policy engine in production and create a controlled retrieval strategy.
How to measure and improve Elasticsearch search recall: from 0.43 to 0.75 with hybrid search
Learn how to measure and improve search recall in Elasticsearch by combining BM25 lexical search with Jina AI vector embeddings, using the rank_eval API to validate the improvement with real numbers.
Fri May 11 post
Building a control plane to govern ecommerce search
How to build a governed control plane for ecommerce that composes conflicting search policies into a single execution plan (without code changes).