IBM Instana integrates natively with Prometheus to unify metric ingestion without disrupting existing telemetry setups. The configuration parameter remote_write enables this linkage. The official documentation states: "The remote_write configuration enables Prometheus to send data to Instana, where those metrics are displayed either as Prometheus entities or merged into process custom metrics." Instead of storing them only within Prometheus, Instana pulls remote_write relay feeds to create comprehensive, unified metrics views in its dashboard. This approach avoids duplicate monitoring systems and allows alerting across both Prometheus and Instana data seamlessly. The parameter does not configure outbound writing by Instana back into Prometheus—data always flows from Prometheus to Instana in this architecture. This integration respects Prometheus scraping principles yet centralizes analysis within Instana, achieving correlation between imported numerical time-series values and native metrics at the application or process layer.