Metrics Articles
SNMP Topology Data in Kibana: Collection to Canvas
The Network Topology plugin for Kibana provides a ready-to-deploy Logstash pipeline, a structured schema, and a topology view that shows what's connected to what.
Configure downsampling directly in Elastic Streams, no more JSON editing needed
Configure downsampling in Elastic Streams alongside retention and tiers, with a live preview and validation. No more editing ILM or lifecycle JSON.
Self-Driving Observability: From Stacktraces to Profiling-Derived Metrics
Profiling-derived metrics turn raw stacktraces into time-series KPIs, unlock continuous profiling for every user and lay the foundation for an observability system that detects, investigates, and acts on its own.
Don't leave metrics on the table: query them with the ES|QL TS command
Recalibrate your mental model for time series queries: learn why FROM can produce inaccurate results for metrics, how TS fixes that, and when to use each command.
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.
From averages to any percentile: Elasticsearch ships native exponential histogram support in ES|QL
Query any percentile at any time. Elasticsearch natively stores OTel exponential histograms and lets you analyze distributions in ES|QL without fixed buckets or lossy conversions.
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.
Piping Hot: Bringing ES|QL to Your Grafana Dashboards Using the Elasticsearch Plugin
You can now write ES|QL queries in Grafana with the Elasticsearch plugin. Learn how to enable it and write pipe-based queries directly in the Grafana UI.
Investigate Kubernetes infrastructure issues with PromQL in Elasticsearch & Kibana
Walkthrough of a Kubernetes fleet-wide CPU investigation in Elastic Observability, from cluster to namespace to the noisy pod, using PromQL in Elasticsearch and Kibana.
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.
Agentic Powered Kubernetes Investigations with Elastic Observability and MCP
See how Elastic's Agentic powered Kubernetes observability uses MCP App, agent skills to let agents investigate clusters, detect anomalies, and automate root cause analysis.
Kubernetes Observability from alert to root cause: Dashboards, Alerts, and Anomaly Detection with Elastic
Kubernetes observability with Elastic includes dashboards, alert rules, and ML anomaly detection for alerts with root-cause context.