elastic · leemthompo · Aug 25, 2025 · Aug 21, 2025 · Aug 21, 2025 · Aug 21, 2025
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ This table compares Elasticsearch capabilities between {{ech}} deployments and S
 | [**Kibana Alerts**](/deploy-manage/monitor/monitoring-data/configure-stack-monitoring-alerts.md) | ✅ | ✅ | |
 | [**Reindexing from remote**](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/operation/operation-reindex) | ✅ | **Planned** | Anticipated in a future release |
 | **Repository management** | ✅ | Managed | Automatically managed by Elastic |
-| [**Scripted metric aggregations**](elasticsearch://reference/aggregations/search-aggregations-metrics-scripted-metric-aggregation.md) | ✅ | ❌ | Not available in Serverless<br>The alternative for this in Serverless is [ES|QL](/explore-analyze/query-filter/languages/esql.md) |
+| [**Scripted metric aggregations**](elasticsearch://reference/aggregations/search-aggregations-metrics-scripted-metric-aggregation.md) | ✅ | ❌ | Not available in Serverless<br>The alternative for this in Serverless is [ES|QL](elasticsearch://reference/query-languages/esql.md) |
 | [**Search applications**](/solutions/search/search-applications.md) | - UI and APIs <br>- Maintenance mode (beta) | - API-only <br>- Maintenance mode (beta) | UI not available in Serverless |
 | **Shard management** | User-configurable | Managed by Elastic | No manual shard allocation in Serverless |
 | [**Watcher**](/explore-analyze/alerts-cases/watcher.md) | ✅ | ❌ | Use **Kibana Alerts** instead, which provides rich integrations across use cases |

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ $$$token-limits$$$
 
 **AI Assistant** is a chat-based interactive tool that can help with a variety of tasks throughout Elasticsearch and Kibana, including:
 
-- **Constructing queries**: Assists you in building queries to search and analyze your data, including converting queries from other languages to [ES|QL](query-filter/languages/esql.md).
+- **Constructing queries**: Assists you in building queries to search and analyze your data, including converting queries from other languages to [ES|QL](elasticsearch://reference/query-languages/esql.md).
 - **Indexing data**: Guides you on how to index data into Elasticsearch.
 - **Using APIs**: Calls Elasticsearch APIs on your behalf if you need specific operations performed.
 - **Generating sample data**: Helps you create sample data for testing and development purposes.

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ When you create an {{es}} query rule, your choice of query type affects the info
 
     * If you use [KQL](../../query-filter/languages/kql.md) or [Lucene](../../query-filter/languages/lucene-query-syntax.md), you must specify a data view then define a text-based query. For example, `http.request.referrer: "https://example.com"`.
 
-   * If you use [ES|QL](../../query-filter/languages/esql.md), you must provide a source command followed by an optional series of processing commands, separated by pipe characters (|).
+   * If you use [ES|QL](elasticsearch://reference/query-languages/esql.md), you must provide a source command followed by an optional series of processing commands, separated by pipe characters (|).
 
         :::{admonition} Added in 8.16.0
         This functionality was added in 8.16.0.

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ $$$data-views-read-only-access$$$
 By default, analytics features such as Discover require a {{data-source}} to access the {{es}} data that you want to explore. A {{data-source}} can point to one or more indices, [data streams](../../manage-data/data-store/data-streams.md), or [index aliases](/manage-data/data-store/aliases.md). For example, a {{data-source}} can point to your log data from yesterday, or all indices that contain your data.
 
 ::::{note}
-In certain apps, you can also query your {{es}} data using [{{esql}}](../query-filter/languages/esql.md). With {{esql}}, data views aren't required.
+In certain apps, you can also query your {{es}} data using [{{esql}}](elasticsearch://reference/query-languages/esql.md). With {{esql}}, data views aren't required.
 ::::
 
 
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ Edit the settings for runtime fields, or remove runtime fields from data views.
 ::::{admonition} Deprecated in 7.13.
 :class: warning
 
-Use [runtime fields](../../manage-data/data-store/mapping/runtime-fields.md) instead of scripted fields. Runtime fields support Painless scripting and provide greater flexibility. You can also use the [Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL)](../../explore-analyze/query-filter/languages/esql.md) to compute values directly at query time.
+Use [runtime fields](../../manage-data/data-store/mapping/runtime-fields.md) instead of scripted fields. Runtime fields support Painless scripting and provide greater flexibility. You can also use the [Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL)](elasticsearch://reference/query-languages/esql.md) to compute values directly at query time.
 ::::
 
 

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Data is often messy and incomplete. [Ingest pipelines](../manage-data/ingest/tra
 
 ## ES|QL [esql-query]
 
-[ES|QL](query-filter/languages/esql.md) has support for [Geospatial Search](elasticsearch://reference/query-languages/esql/functions-operators/spatial-functions.md) functions, enabling efficient index searching for documents that intersect with, are within, are contained by, or are disjoint from a query geometry. In addition, the `ST_DISTANCE` function calculates the distance between two points.
+[ES|QL](elasticsearch://reference/query-languages/esql.md) has support for [Geospatial Search](elasticsearch://reference/query-languages/esql/functions-operators/spatial-functions.md) functions, enabling efficient index searching for documents that intersect with, are within, are contained by, or are disjoint from a query geometry. In addition, the `ST_DISTANCE` function calculates the distance between two points.
 
 * [`ST_INTERSECTS`](elasticsearch://reference/query-languages/esql/functions-operators/spatial-functions.md#esql-st_intersects)
 * [`ST_DISJOINT`](elasticsearch://reference/query-languages/esql/functions-operators/spatial-functions.md#esql-st_disjoint)

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ applies_to:
 | Name | Description | Use cases | API endpoint |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
 | [Query DSL](languages/querydsl.md) | The primary query language for {{es}}. A powerful and flexible JSON-style language that enables complex queries. | Full-text search, semantic search, keyword search, filtering, aggregations, and more. | [`_search`](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/operation/operation-search) |
-| [{{esql}}](languages/esql.md) | Introduced in **8.11**, the Elasticsearch Query Language ({{esql}}) is a piped query language language for filtering, transforming, and analyzing data. | Initially tailored towards working with time series data like logs and metrics. Robust integration with {{kib}} for querying, visualizing, and analyzing data. Does not yet support full-text search. | [`_query`](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/group/endpoint-esql) |
+| [{{esql}}](elasticsearch://reference/query-languages/esql.md) | Introduced in **8.11**, the Elasticsearch Query Language ({{esql}}) is a piped query language language for filtering, transforming, and analyzing data. | Initially tailored towards working with time series data like logs and metrics. Robust integration with {{kib}} for querying, visualizing, and analyzing data. | [`_query`](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/group/endpoint-esql) |
 | [EQL](languages/eql.md) | Event Query Language (EQL) is a query language for event-based time series data. Data must contain the `@timestamp` field to use EQL. | Designed for the threat hunting security use case. | [`_eql`](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/group/endpoint-eql) |
 | [Elasticsearch SQL](languages/sql.md) | Allows native, real-time SQL-like querying against {{es}} data. JDBC and ODBC drivers are available for integration with business intelligence (BI) tools. | Enables users familiar with SQL to query {{es}} data using familiar syntax for BI and reporting. | [`_sql`](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/group/endpoint-sql) |
 | [Kibana Query Language (KQL)](languages/kql.md) | {{kib}} Query Language (KQL) is a text-based query language for filtering data when you access it through the {{kib}} UI. | Use KQL to filter documents where a value for a field exists, matches a given value, or is within a given range. | N/A |