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Ryan Eno

Sr Principal, Customer Enterprise Specialist

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Improve search performance with `best_compression`

January 23, 2026

Improve search performance with `best_compression`

While `best_compression` is typically seen as a storage-saving feature for Elastic Observability and Elastic Security use cases, this blog demonstrates its effectiveness as a performance-tuning lever for search.

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