Hydrolix Secures Kibana Support by Acquiring Quesma Gateway Technology
Acquisition ensures seamless dashboard integration as data lake platform expands ecosystem reach.
Hydrolix has made a strategic move to protect its customers' existing workflows by acquiring intellectual property from Quesma, specifically the gateway proxy technology that enables Kibana integration. This acquisition comes after Quesma announced it would discontinue support for the product, potentially leaving Hydrolix customers without their familiar dashboard interface.
Why This Matters for Developers
The acquisition addresses a common challenge in the data analytics space: maintaining familiar tools while upgrading underlying infrastructure. Many organizations have invested heavily in Kibana dashboards, queries, and workflows. When they migrate to more cost-effective platforms like Hydrolix, they want to preserve these investments rather than rebuilding everything from scratch.
"Many of our customers rely on Kibana as a familiar and powerful interface for monitoring and alerting," said Marty Kagan, CEO of Hydrolix. "By bringing Quesma's gateway proxy IP in-house, we can guarantee that customers will continue to enjoy seamless interoperability between Kibana dashboards and Hydrolix data."
The Technical Solution
Quesma's gateway proxy acts as an intelligent intermediary between Kibana and Hydrolix. When users run queries through Kibana, the gateway translates these requests into the appropriate format for Hydrolix's streaming data lake platform. This translation happens transparently, so users can continue working with their existing dashboards while benefiting from Hydrolix's cost advantages and performance improvements.
The technology has been integrated into Hydrolix since 2024, giving the company nearly a year of operational experience with the solution. This integration allows organizations to redirect queries from expensive Elasticsearch clusters to Hydrolix's more efficient storage and query engine without changing their front-end tools.
Beyond Kibana Integration
This acquisition reflects Hydrolix's broader ecosystem strategy. The company doesn't just support Kibana—it also integrates with Splunk, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and various machine learning exploration tools. This approach recognizes that different teams within organizations often prefer different tools, and forcing standardization can create adoption barriers.
The move also demonstrates how Hydrolix is positioning itself in the competitive data lake market. Rather than requiring customers to abandon their existing toolchains, the company is building bridges that make migration easier and less risky.
Market Context and Timing
The acquisition comes at a time when organizations are increasingly focused on data infrastructure costs. Traditional log analytics platforms like Elasticsearch can become expensive at scale, particularly when organizations need to retain data for extended periods or handle high-volume ingestion.
Hydrolix has built its platform specifically to address these cost concerns. The company's streaming data lake can handle up to 20 million events per second while keeping data "hot" and queryable for 15 months or more—something that would be prohibitively expensive with traditional solutions.
Customer Impact
For existing Hydrolix customers using the Kibana integration, this acquisition means business as usual. They won't need to worry about losing access to their dashboards or having to rewrite queries. The transition should be seamless, with Hydrolix taking over support and development responsibilities.
New customers evaluating Hydrolix can also feel confident that their Kibana investments are protected. This removes a significant barrier to adoption, especially for organizations with large teams already trained on Kibana.
What's Next for Quesma
While Quesma is exiting the gateway proxy business, the company isn't disappearing entirely. According to Jacek Migdał, founder and CEO of Quesma, the transaction allows his company to focus on its next chapter of product development. The partnership between the companies will continue, though in a different capacity.
Industry Implications
This acquisition highlights a broader trend in the data infrastructure market: the importance of ecosystem integration. Companies that build walls around their platforms often struggle to gain adoption, while those that embrace interoperability can capture market share more effectively.
It also shows how smaller, specialized companies like Quesma can have outsized impact by solving specific integration challenges. Even though Quesma is stepping back from this particular product, their technology will continue to benefit users through Hydrolix.
The Bottom Line
For developers and data engineers working with log analytics, this acquisition removes uncertainty about Kibana support on the Hydrolix platform. It also demonstrates Hydrolix's commitment to protecting customer investments in existing tools and workflows.
As organizations continue to grapple with rising data infrastructure costs, solutions that offer both economic advantages and tool compatibility become increasingly valuable. By securing the Quesma technology, Hydrolix has strengthened its position in this competitive market while ensuring its customers can continue using the tools they know and trust.
