Prometheus Articles

Elasticsearch: best-in-class for logs, now best-in-class for metrics
PrometheusMetricsOpenTelemetry

Elasticsearch: best-in-class for logs, now best-in-class for metrics

Elasticsearch is now best-in-class for metrics: 30× faster than Prometheus, up to 2.5× more storage-efficient, 50% less than Datadog. Learn about all the capabilities we’ve added.

Bahubali Shetti

Vinay Chandrasekhar

Use Elasticsearch as a Drop-In Prometheus Backend for Grafana
PrometheusMetricsServerless

Use Elasticsearch as a Drop-In Prometheus Backend for Grafana

Use Elasticsearch as a Prometheus backend for Grafana dashboards, autocomplete, Metrics Drilldown, and alerting without changing PromQL workflows.

Felix Barnsteiner

Bringing Fire to Elasticsearch: Adding Native Prometheus API Support
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Bringing Fire to Elasticsearch: Adding Native Prometheus API Support

Query Elasticsearch directly from Prometheus-compatible clients via native PromQL, discovery, and metadata endpoints. Send data to Elasticsearch with Prometheus Remote Write.

Felix Barnsteiner

Migrating Datadog and Grafana dashboards and alerts to Kibana with the Observability Migration Platform
ObservabilityMetricsPrometheus

Migrating Datadog and Grafana dashboards and alerts to Kibana with the Observability Migration Platform

Learn how to migrate supported Datadog and Grafana dashboards and alerts to Kibana with the Observability Migration Platform.

Subham Sarkar

Vinay Chandrasekhar

Query Prometheus Metrics in Elasticsearch with Native PromQL Support
PrometheusMetricsES|QL

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

Felix Barnsteiner

Kostas Krikellas

Costin Leau

How Prometheus Remote Write Ingestion Works in Elasticsearch
PrometheusMetricsElastic Architecture Enhancements

How Prometheus Remote Write Ingestion Works in Elasticsearch

A look under the hood at Elasticsearch's Prometheus Remote Write implementation: protobuf parsing, metric type inference, TSDS mapping, and data stream routing.

Felix Barnsteiner

Ship Prometheus Metrics to Elasticsearch with Remote Write
PrometheusMetricsServerless

Ship Prometheus Metrics to Elasticsearch with Remote Write

Elasticsearch natively supports Prometheus Remote Write. Add a single remote_write block to your Prometheus config and use Elasticsearch as Prometheus-compatible long-term storage.

Felix Barnsteiner

Ingesting and analyzing Prometheus metrics with Elastic Observability
MetricsPrometheusKubernetes

Ingesting and analyzing Prometheus metrics with Elastic Observability

In this blog post, we will showcase the integration of Prometheus with Elastic, emphasizing how Elastic elevates metrics monitoring through extensive historical analytics, anomaly detection, and forecasting, all in a cost-effective manner.

Jenny Morris