Kostas Krikellas

Kostas Krikellas

Principal Software Engineer II

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Articles by Kostas Krikellas
30x faster than Prometheus: how we rebuilt Elasticsearch as a leading columnar metrics datastore
Observability Labs

30x faster than Prometheus: how we rebuilt Elasticsearch as a leading columnar metrics datastore

Elasticsearch now stores OTel metrics at 3.75 bytes per data point and queries them up to 30x faster than Prometheus. Here's how we rebuilt TSDS and ES|QL.

Kostas Krikellas
Query Prometheus Metrics in Elasticsearch with Native PromQL Support
Observability Labs

Query Prometheus Metrics in Elasticsearch with Native PromQL Support

Elasticsearch now supports PromQL natively as a first-class source command in ES|QL. Run familiar Prometheus queries on your time series data directly in Kibana.

Sergey Sidorov