December 18, 2025
Building a local RAG personal knowledge assistant with LocalAI and Elasticsearch
Learn how to create a private, offline local RAG personal knowledge assistant that can summarize meetings and internal reports using e5-small for embeddings and dolphin3.0-qwen2.5-0.5b for completions in Elasticsearch.
December 17, 2025
Boosting e-commerce search by profit and popularity with the function score query in Elasticsearch
Discover how to optimize e-commerce search by blending BM25 relevance with profit margin and popularity signals in Elasticsearch using the function_score query.
December 16, 2025
Reducing Elasticsearch frozen tier costs with Deepfreeze S3 Glacier archival
Learn how to leverage Deepfreeze in Elasticsearch to automate searchable snapshot repository rotation, retaining historical data and aging it into lower cost S3 Glacier tiers after index deletion.
December 15, 2025
Getting started with Elastic Agent Builder and Strands Agents SDK
Learn how to create an agent with Elastic Agent Builder and then explore how to use the agent via the A2A protocol orchestrated with the Strands Agents SDK.
December 12, 2025
Introducing Elasticsearch support in the Google MCP Toolbox for Databases
Explore how Elasticsearch support is now available in the Google MCP Toolbox for Databases and leverage ES|QL tools to securely integrate your index with any MCP client.
December 11, 2025
Evaluating search query relevance with judgment lists
Explore how to build judgment lists to objectively evaluate search query relevance and improve performance metrics such as recall, for scalable search testing in Elasticsearch.
December 10, 2025
How to improve e-commerce search relevance with personalized cohort-aware ranking
Improve e-commerce search relevance with explainable, cohort-aware ranking in Elasticsearch. Learn how multiplicative boosting delivers stable, predictable personalization at query time.
December 9, 2025
AutoOps in action: Investigating Elasticsearch cluster performance on ECK
Explore how Elastic's InfoSec team implemented AutoOps in a multi-cluster ECK environment, cutting cluster performance investigation time from 30+ minutes to five minutes.
December 8, 2025
How excessive replica counts can degrade performance, and what to do about it
Learn about the impact of high replica counts in Elasticsearch, and how to ensure cluster stability by right-sizing your replicas.