Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced native Prometheus support for its observability platform, including direct data ingestion and PromQL query language support in Kibana. The features are available in technical preview.

The company said the additions allow site reliability engineers to analyze Prometheus metrics alongside logs and traces without rewriting queries or rebuilding data pipelines. Organizations using Kubernetes often face challenges with multiple monitoring tools and fragmented data systems as telemetry volumes increase.

The native Prometheus ingestion feature uses Remote Write to stream metrics directly into Elasticsearch while maintaining their original structure. This eliminates the need for data format translations or adapters that were previously required.

"Modern incident response is slowed down by tool sprawl and disconnected data, and SREs shouldn't have to pivot between tools or rewrite queries just to understand what's happening in production," said Bahaaldine Azarmi, general manager of observability at Elastic.

The PromQL support in Kibana allows users to run existing Prometheus queries in dashboards and alerts without modification. Teams can maintain their current PromQL workflows while gaining access to cross-signal analysis combining metrics, logs, and traces.

Both features aim to reduce the operational complexity that occurs when organizations use separate tools for different types of monitoring data. The unified approach provides a single platform for observability data analysis.

The announcement was made through a company press release statement.