Elastic Adds Native Prometheus and PromQL Support to Elastic Observability

Key Terms

promql technical

PromQL is a precise query language used to ask a monitoring system for performance measurements and trends over time, like requesting specific temperature readings or averages from a smart thermostat. For investors, it matters because analysts and operations teams use it to spot outages, slowdowns, data-feed problems or unusual patterns that can affect trading, financial reporting or customer-facing services, enabling faster detection and response to risks.

kibana technical

Kibana is a software dashboard that lets users turn large piles of company data — logs, metrics and search results — into interactive charts and maps for exploration and reporting. For investors, it matters because firms that use Kibana can monitor operational health, detect problems sooner, and measure product or customer activity more clearly; that visibility can affect cost control, security risk and how quickly a business responds to market changes.

kubernetes technical

Kubernetes is an open-source system that automates running and managing many pieces of software across groups of computers, like a conductor coordinating musicians so each piece plays at the right time and place. For investors, it matters because companies that use it can deploy updates faster, scale services up or down automatically, and cut infrastructure costs — factors that influence growth, reliability and operating margins.

site reliability engineers technical

Site reliability engineers are technical professionals who build and run the systems that keep a company’s websites and online services working reliably, fast, and secure. They monitor performance, prevent and fix outages, and automate routine tasks so the service stays available to customers; for investors, their work protects revenue, brand trust and regulatory compliance much like a building’s maintenance crew keeps tenants moving in and operations open.

telemetry technical

Telemetry is the automatic collection and transmission of measurements from remote devices, systems, or patients to a central system for monitoring and analysis—like a car sending engine, speed and location data back to a dashboard. For investors it matters because telemetry provides real-time evidence of product performance, safety and user behavior, helping assess revenue potential, operational risk, regulatory compliance and whether a product is meeting market demand.

Unify Prometheus metrics with logs and traces, without rewriting queries or rebuilding pipelines

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced native Prometheus support, including direct ingestion via Remote Write and full PromQL support in Kibana. These additions enable Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to analyze Prometheus metrics alongside logs and traces in a single platform, without rewriting queries or rebuilding pipelines.

As organizations scale Kubernetes, Prometheus telemetry cardinality and volumes surge, forcing SREs to juggle multiple tools, duplicate data pipelines, and rewrite queries across systems. This fragmentation slows incident response and drives up operational costs.

With native Prometheus support, Elastic eliminates these fragmentation trade-offs by allowing teams to ingest, store, and analyze native Prometheus data alongside other telemetry data, while preserving existing Prometheus workflows. Instead of stitching together tools, SREs can detect, investigate, and resolve incidents end-to-end across AI and cloud-native environments faster and with less operational overhead.

“Modern incident response is slowed down by tool sprawl and disconnected data, and SREs shouldn’t have to pivot between tools or rewrite queries just to understand what’s happening in production,” said Bahaaldine Azarmi, general manager, Observability at Elastic. “With native Prometheus ingestion and PromQL in Kibana, teams get a single platform that dramatically reduces time to root cause.”

Native Prometheus Ingestion—No Translation Required (tech preview)

Elastic now ingests Prometheus metrics directly via Remote Write, eliminating the need for adapters, schema, or format translations.

SREs can stream Prometheus metrics straight into Elasticsearch while maintaining their original structure and semantics. The result is a single source of truth for observability, without forcing teams to abandon Prometheus. This approach:

• Removes duplicate storage and pipeline complexity
• Preserves full metric fidelity and high-cardinality data
• Enables unified analysis across metrics, logs, and traces

Run PromQL Directly in Kibana (tech preview)

With native PromQL support in Kibana, users can run existing PromQL queries in dashboards and alerts without modification, lowering the barrier to adoption for teams already using Prometheus.

This eliminates query rewrites, one of the biggest adoption barriers in observability platforms. SREs can keep the PromQL they’ve already built, including dashboards, alerts, and workflows, alongside logs and traces in the same environment, while gaining a path from alert to root cause without manual pivoting, enabling deeper, cross-signal analysis during incidents.

Availability

Native Prometheus ingestion and PromQL support in Kibana are available in technical preview.

Additional Materials

Read these blogs for more information.

• Ship Prometheus Metrics to Elasticsearch with Remote Write
• Your PromQL queries now run in Kibana!

About Elastic

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