Grafana Labs is partnering with Elastic to develop an official Elasticsearch plugin for Grafana, reflecting their "big tent" philosophy that emphasizes user choice and interoperability in observability strategies. This collaboration aims to enhance the existing Elasticsearch plugin, allowing Grafana users to visualize data from one of the most popular platforms alongside multiple other data sources. The partnership will leverage the combined engineering expertise of Grafana Labs and Elastic to provide a seamless experience, expanding on Grafana's origins as a project derived from Kibana, the Elasticsearch platform's frontend. The integration will be available to all Grafana users, and the development will focus on adding features like more aggregations, broader query language support, and space-saving constructs, with community feedback playing a key role in its evolution.