Last place I worked used ES alone to power a complex search system. No Kibana. We were running about 100 instances with about a petabyte of data. We're going t

Last place I worked used ES alone to power a complex search system. No Kibana. We were running about 100 instances with about a petabyte of data. We're going the same route in my new place. If you want full text search with scalabilty and durability (and automated lifecycle management, these days) ES is still really the only game in town (not counting OpenSearch, as it's the same thing).