Elastic’s new metrics capabilities will dramatically improve uptime for public sector IT

This post details the engineering behind Elastic's new metrics capabilities, focusing on the columnar metrics engine that improves uptime and cost efficiency for public sector IT. It highlights the re-engineering of Elasticsearch's time series data storage and querying, resulting in a 6.6x reduction in storage footprint for metrics and up to 160x faster time series queries. The post also covers native Prometheus and PromQL support, agentic investigation workflows, flexible deployment options (Cloud, on-prem, air-gapped), and a data volume-based pricing model. A streamlined migration process using the Observability Migration Platform is also introduced.