Kostas Krikellas

Kostas Krikellas

Principal Software Engineer II

Articles by Kostas Krikellas

30x faster than Prometheus: How we rebuilt Elasticsearch as a leading columnar metrics datastore

Elasticsearch now stores OTel metrics at 3.75 bytes per data point and queries them up to 30x faster than Prometheus. Here's how we rebuilt TSDS and ES|QL.

Kostas Krikellas

ES|QL in 9.2: Smart Lookup Joins and time-series support

Explore three separate updates to ES|QL in Elasticsearch 9.2: an enhanced LOOKUP JOIN for more expressive data correlation, the new TS command for time-series analysis, and the flexible INLINE STATS command for aggregation.

Tyler Perkins

Storage wins for time-series data in Elasticsearch

Explore Elasticsearch's storage improvements for time series data and best practices for configuring a TSDS with storage efficiency.