Category: Analytics
Articles tagged Analytics
Query rewrite rules in Elasticsearch: 2.3x faster wildcard scans
A second rule makes empty-string filters 1.6x faster. It reads string lengths straight from the offset array and never touches the compressed bytes. Both rules came from the same habit of running real queries and hunting for the special case.
Dashboard activity logs: Find out which Kibana dashboards get used
Kibana now logs who viewed, edited or deleted each dashboard, how long it took and what failed, so you can catch a broken dashboard before anyone reports it.
Three SLOs every search team needs: monitoring search latency, availability and quality with OpenTelemetry
Your OpenTelemetry search spans already carry the signals for SLOs, burn rate alerts, anomaly detection and incident response, and this post shows how to build all four in Elastic Observability.
Search relevance from click streams: Using Learn To Rank and behavioral signals with OpenTelemetry
Learn how to turn click streams and behavioral signals from OpenTelemetry search analytics into judgment lists, rank features and Learn To Rank models that make search relevance improve over time.
From search to checkout in 20 lines of code: building a 4-stage conversion funnel with OpenTelemetry
Add cart and purchase tracking to your search analytics pipeline and use ES|QL to answer the question every product manager asks: which search queries drive the most revenue?
Close enough is fast enough: How ES|QL Fast mode makes Kibana dashboards up to 100x faster
Fast mode samples a fraction of the data instead of scanning all of it. This release also brings click-to-filter for ES|QL charts, query-powered controls, and cleaner metric and bar chart layouts.
15 lines of click tracking code that tell you what search logs can't
Three ES|QL queries calculate click-through rate, mean reciprocal rank and click position distribution from your search click data, so you can pinpoint which queries need relevance tuning and where ranking improvements will have the most impact.
How to instrument your search API with OpenTelemetry and query it with ES|QL
Add custom attributes to OpenTelemetry spans and run six ES|QL queries that reveal your top searches, zero-result rate and slowest queries.
Why Elasticsearch is becoming a columnar database
Elasticsearch is becoming a first-class columnar database. Columnar Mode ships in 9.5, storing data once alongside the existing modes and cutting storage footprints while speeding up analytical queries.
How to build search analytics on Elastic using OpenTelemetry, no extra pipeline required
How to instrument your search application to use modern Open Telemetry standard to drive insights in to your search and users.
Follow the money: tracing laundering networks with ES|QL and cross-cluster search
The data model, cross-cluster architecture and five ES|QL queries that power mule detection and laundering network tracing, built from infrastructure most financial institutions already run.
