Blogs

Developer insights and practical how-to articles from our experts to inspire and empower your search experience

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.

Improve search performance with `best_compression`
Agent Builder now GA: Ship context-driven agents in minutes

Agent Builder now GA: Ship context-driven agents in minutes

Agent Builder is now GA. Learn how it allows you to quickly develop context-driven AI agents.

Building voice agents with Elastic Agent Builder

January 22, 2026

Building voice agents with Elastic Agent Builder

Exploring how voice agents work and how to build one using Elastic Agent Builder and LiveKit.

Agent Builder, beyond the chatbox: Introducing Augmented Infrastructure

January 22, 2026

Agent Builder, beyond the chatbox: Introducing Augmented Infrastructure

Learn about Elastic Agent Builder with Augmented Infrastructure, an AI agent that enables augmented operations, augmented development, and augmented synthetics.

Monitoring LLM inference and Agent Builder with OpenRouter

January 21, 2026

Monitoring LLM inference and Agent Builder with OpenRouter

Learn how to monitor LLM usage, costs, and performance across Agent Builder and inference pipelines using OpenRouter's OpenTelemetry broadcast and Elastic APM.

Context engineering vs. prompt engineering

January 20, 2026

Context engineering vs. prompt engineering

Learn how context engineering and prompt engineering differ and why mastering both is essential for building production AI agents and RAG systems.

Faster ES|QL stats with Swiss-style hash tables

January 19, 2026

Faster ES|QL stats with Swiss-style hash tables

How Swiss-inspired hashing and SIMD-friendly design deliver consistent, measurable speedups in Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL).

Managing agentic memory with Elasticsearch

January 16, 2026

Managing agentic memory with Elasticsearch

Creating more context-aware and efficient agents by managing memories using Elasticsearch.

Higher throughput and lower latency: Elastic Cloud Serverless on AWS gets a significant performance boost

Higher throughput and lower latency: Elastic Cloud Serverless on AWS gets a significant performance boost

We've upgraded the AWS infrastructure for Elasticsearch Serverless to newer, faster hardware. Learn how this massive performance boost delivers faster queries, better scaling, and lower costs.

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