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30x faster than Prometheus: how we rebuilt Elasticsearch as a leading columnar metrics datastore
19 May 2026
ES|QLOpenTelemetry

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

Martijn Van Groningen

Nhat Nguyen

Felix Barnsteiner

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