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Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL)

1 post · Nov 2023 – Jun 2024

What this trail covers

Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL) is now generally available, offering a powerful, piped language for data exploration, transformation, and analysis. This release includes advanced capabilities like multi-step analysis, data enrichment via lookup policies, and integration with visualization tools. The platform also enhances security with GA of Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) for encryption at rest, and improves vector search performance with SIMD optimizations and int8 quantization by default.

All Elastic trails
  1. Elastic Platform 8.14: ES|QL GA, encryption at rest & vector search optimizationsThis post announces the general availability of Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL), detailing its capabilities for multi-step analysis, data enrichment, and visualization integration. It also highlights the GA of Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) for encryption at rest with AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, and Google Cloud KMS, and introduces optimizations for vector search including SIMD (Neon) for int8 vectors and making int8 quantization the default for dense vector fields. Logstash on ECK is also now GA.
  2. Elastic Stack 8.11 introduces an advanced query language, ES|QLThis post announces the general availability of Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL) in Elastic Stack 8.11. It details ES|QL's capabilities for data exploration, transformation, and enrichment, including its integration with Kibana Discover for aggregations and visualizations. New features include an ES|QL alerting rule type, the ability to create and manage ES|QL enrichment index policies directly from Index Management, and an example of using ES|QL with an enrich policy. The post also briefly mentions the improved ELSER model and a new machine learning inference API MVP.