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 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.

November 11, 2025
Configuring recursive chunking for structured documents in Elasticsearch
Learn how to configure recursive chunking in Elasticsearch with chunk size, separator groups, and custom separator lists for optimal structured document indexing.

October 30, 2025
Context engineering using Mistral Chat completions in Elasticsearch
Learn how to utilize context engineering with Mistral Chat completions in Elasticsearch to ground LLM responses in domain-specific knowledge for accurate outputs.

October 24, 2025
A new era for Elastic Discover: ES|QL, context & multi-tabs
Learn about the evolution of Elastic's Discover, covering ES|QL integration, context-aware querying, multi-exploration tabs, and the new CRUD experience in 9.2.

October 23, 2025
Low-memory benchmarking in DiskBBQ and HNSW BBQ
Benchmarking Elasticsearch latency, indexing speed, and memory usage for DiskBBQ and HNSW BBQ in low-memory environments.

October 23, 2025
Semantic search with GPU inference in Elastic
Learn how Elastic's EIS leverages GPU inference and ELSER to power fast, accurate semantic search.

October 23, 2025
Elastic's Kibana navigation refresh in 9.2 from user feedback
Learn how the Elastic team made it easier to navigate in Kibana 9.2 with an on-hover menu access, a visible menu in collapsed mode, and icon-driven navigation.

October 23, 2025
Introducing a new vector storage format: DiskBBQ
Introducing DiskBBQ, an alternative to HNSW, and exploring when and why to use it.