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Yannis Roussos

Principal Product Manager

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Bringing it together: How we rebuilt Elasticsearch as a columnar metrics engine; 6.6x less storage, 160x faster queries
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June 29, 2026

Bringing it together: How we rebuilt Elasticsearch as a columnar metrics engine; 6.6x less storage, 160x faster queries

Elasticsearch metrics in version 9.4 run on a fully columnar engine: 6.6x less storage, 160x faster queries, native PromQL and OTel support.

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By: Yannis Roussos and Vinay Chandrasekhar

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