Companion · Metrics GA — PromQL & DORA
Native PromQL

Their PromQL. Your OTel backend. Zero retrain.

Run identical queries in Metrics UI and via PROMQL ES|QL on BlueRiver seed — disprove the #1 Grafana objection in five minutes.

METRICS UI

Grafana runbook paste

sum by (service.name) (rate(http.server.requests[5m]))

PROMQL ES|QL

Discover + unified stack

One platform for metrics, logs, traces later.

PROMQL index=...
PROOF

blueriver-* on Serverless

Managed OTLP seed — Last 24h in lab.

OTel
Migration story
Backend swap
Grafana/Mimir Elastic Metrics Same PromQL · same dashboards · new economics 30× query perf · 4× TCO vs Datadog
PromQL GA ES|QL
Challenge 1: Instant + rate PromQL on blueriver-* — cite Elastic #promql proof.
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DORA language

Engineering KPIs on live charts — not platform slides.

OOTB K8s/OTel dashboards + deployment.completed / error PromQL — speak DORA with Gartner CC scores (#1 DevOps, #1 SW Eng, #2 SRE).

DEPLOYMENT FREQUENCY

deployment.completed

DORA “velocity” language buyers report upward.

CHANGE FAIL RATE

service.errors

RED metrics SREs already monitor.

OOTB K8s

No custom build

First meeting ready — Elastic #kubernetes proof.

Gartner CC while demoing
Say out loud
#1 DevOps Engineering #1 Software Engineering #2 Site Reliability Engineering Live chart + competitive proof together
DORA-shaped Not a formal scorecard
Challenge 2: OOTB dashboard + lab PromQL — 60s pitch to DevOps/SRE champion.
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Offering close

One Serverless story: TCO → Streams → Metrics GA.

Package consolidation economics, ingest control, and PromQL preservation in ~60 seconds for CFO + engineering champion.

W1 SALES LAB

Consolidation / TCO

Fewer vendors, predictable spend.

STREAMS

Signal economics

Pay for what drives alerts — extends TCO.

METRICS GA

PromQL + OTel day one

Engineers adopt — backend swap not behavior change.

60-second Offering
Elastic #offering
"PromQL preserved · OTel day one · Streams economics · one Serverless tier" → W3 Agentic ROI on same stack
Close SE follow-on: migration lab
Challenge 3: Deliver Offering cost story → Check to complete companion lab.
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