With the launch of version 8.17.0 of Elastic, it featured “The technical preview of the new MATCH and query string (QSTR) functions in ES|QL, which simplifies and enhances the intuitiveness of log searches.”[1] Following this release, I began delving into the numerous features offered by ES|QL in Kibana [2], which is enabled by default, to perform various types of queries that efficiently condense data, apart from the standard or personalized dashboards.