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June 30, 2026

Building a multilingual voice agent with Elastic Agent Builder & Sarvam AI

A working demo combining Sarvam AI speech with Elastic Agent Builder: identity verification, per-customer ES|QL queries, and mid-call language switching across 22 Indian languages without multilingual indices.

Building a multilingual voice agent with Elastic Agent Builder & Sarvam AI
Bringing it together: How we rebuilt Elasticsearch as a columnar metrics engine; 6.6x less storage, 160x faster queries

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.

Talk to your Elasticsearch data: building a real-time voice agent with Google ADK and MCP in 3 components

Talk to your Elasticsearch data: building a real-time voice agent with Google ADK and MCP in 3 components

Wire Google ADK's real-time voice streaming to your Elasticsearch data via Agent Builder's built-in MCP server; no custom integration code required.

Elasticsearch ES|QL: Now with Views, Subqueries, and Schema-on-Read

June 25, 2026

Elasticsearch ES|QL: Now with Views, Subqueries, and Schema-on-Read

Query fields you never mapped, combine indices with different schemas in one pipeline, and reuse query logic as named views. ES|QL's most significant data access expansion yet.

The hash() Elasticsearch won't name and the 12 bytes that prove it's Murmur3

June 25, 2026

The hash() Elasticsearch won't name and the 12 bytes that prove it's Murmur3

Elasticsearch's routing formula uses MurmurHash3, but the docs never say so. This post names the function, walks through the full shard calculation, and shows you how to reproduce it externally.

Elasticsearch DiskBBQ delivers 7x faster vector search than Qdrant on network-attached storage

June 24, 2026

Elasticsearch DiskBBQ delivers 7x faster vector search than Qdrant on network-attached storage

Elasticsearch DiskBBQ achieves up to 7x higher vector search throughput than Qdrant at comparable recall on network-attached storage. Explore the benchmark methodology and full results.

jina-clip-v2 brings text-to-image search across 89 languages to Elasticsearch, no GPU needed

June 23, 2026

jina-clip-v2 brings text-to-image search across 89 languages to Elasticsearch, no GPU needed

Run multimodal search across 89 languages inside Elasticsearch with jina-clip-v2: one embedding space for text and images, with no separate model infrastructure to manage.

Your data analyst doesn't need SQL: wiring Elastic Agent Builder to AWS AgentCore for natural-language Elasticsearch queries

June 22, 2026

Your data analyst doesn't need SQL: wiring Elastic Agent Builder to AWS AgentCore for natural-language Elasticsearch queries

Wire plain-English questions to your Elasticsearch data using Elastic Agent Builder MCP, AWS Bedrock AgentCore and the Strands SDK. Python code included.

Why your Elasticsearch cluster is hitting disk watermarks: 14 real-world causes explained

June 19, 2026

Why your Elasticsearch cluster is hitting disk watermarks: 14 real-world causes explained

Learn how Elasticsearch disk watermarks work, why they trigger, and how to diagnose 14 of the most common scenarios Support encounters, from index bloat to ILM stalls.

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