Yes, Elasticsearch does metrics — really well

Vinay Chandrasekhar

Director, Product Management, Observability

Elastic

Metrics in Elastic now has native Prometheus and PromQL support, out-of-the-box Kubernetes and AWS investigation experiences (Workflows, alerts, dashboards, skills, MCP app), and automated migration from Datadog and Grafana. We'll cover how the new columnar engine delivers 30x faster queries and up to 2.5x more efficient storage than Prometheus, at 50% of the cost of Datadog. But benchmarks are the floor, not the story. See metrics exploration in Discover, ES|QL subqueries correlating metrics with logs and traces, and agentic investigations that run the moment an alert fires.