diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/datasource.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/datasource.ts
index 088a0e3c7ad..fd1113d1616 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/datasource.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/datasource.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ import {
   DataFrame,
   ScopedVars,
   DataLink,
+  PluginMeta,
+  DataQuery,
 } from '@grafana/data';
+import LanguageProvider from './language_provider';
 import { ElasticResponse } from './elastic_response';
 import { IndexPattern } from './index_pattern';
 import { ElasticQueryBuilder } from './query_builder';
@@ -34,6 +37,7 @@ export class ElasticDatasource extends DataSourceApi<ElasticsearchQuery, Elastic
   logMessageField?: string;
   logLevelField?: string;
   dataLinks: DataLinkConfig[];
+  languageProvider: LanguageProvider;
 
   /** @ngInject */
   constructor(
@@ -69,6 +73,7 @@ export class ElasticDatasource extends DataSourceApi<ElasticsearchQuery, Elastic
     if (this.logLevelField === '') {
       this.logLevelField = undefined;
     }
+    this.languageProvider = new LanguageProvider(this);
   }
 
   private request(method: string, url: string, data?: undefined) {
@@ -100,6 +105,10 @@ export class ElasticDatasource extends DataSourceApi<ElasticsearchQuery, Elastic
       });
   }
 
+  async importQueries(queries: DataQuery[], originMeta: PluginMeta): Promise<ElasticsearchQuery[]> {
+    return this.languageProvider.importQueries(queries, originMeta.id);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Sends a GET request to the specified url on the newest matching and available index.
    *
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/language_provider.test.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/language_provider.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3f5aa5444a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/language_provider.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+import LanguageProvider from './language_provider';
+import { PromQuery } from '../prometheus/types';
+import { ElasticDatasource } from './datasource';
+import { DataSourceInstanceSettings, dateTime } from '@grafana/data';
+import { ElasticsearchOptions } from './types';
+import { TemplateSrv } from '../../../features/templating/template_srv';
+import { getTimeSrv, TimeSrv } from '../../../features/dashboard/services/TimeSrv';
+import { getTemplateSrv } from '@grafana/runtime';
+
+jest.mock('app/features/templating/template_srv', () => {
+  return {
+    getAdhocFilters: jest.fn(() => [] as any[]),
+    replace: jest.fn((a: string) => a),
+  };
+});
+
+jest.mock('app/features/dashboard/services/TimeSrv', () => ({
+  __esModule: true,
+  getTimeSrv: jest.fn().mockReturnValue({
+    timeRange(): any {
+      return {
+        from: dateTime(1531468681),
+        to: dateTime(1531489712),
+      };
+    },
+  }),
+}));
+
+const dataSource = new ElasticDatasource(
+  {
+    url: 'http://es.com',
+    database: '[asd-]YYYY.MM.DD',
+    jsonData: {
+      interval: 'Daily',
+      esVersion: 2,
+      timeField: '@time',
+    },
+  } as DataSourceInstanceSettings<ElasticsearchOptions>,
+  getTemplateSrv() as TemplateSrv,
+  getTimeSrv() as TimeSrv
+);
+describe('transform prometheus query to elasticsearch query', () => {
+  it('Prometheus query with exact equals labels ( 2 labels ) and metric __name__', () => {
+    const instance = new LanguageProvider(dataSource);
+    var promQuery: PromQuery = { refId: 'bar', expr: 'my_metric{label1="value1",label2="value2"}' };
+    const result = instance.importQueries([promQuery], 'prometheus');
+    expect(result).toEqual([
+      { isLogsQuery: true, query: '__name__:"my_metric" AND label1:"value1" AND label2:"value2"', refId: 'bar' },
+    ]);
+  });
+  it('Prometheus query with exact equals labels ( 1 labels ) and metric __name__', () => {
+    const instance = new LanguageProvider(dataSource);
+    var promQuery: PromQuery = { refId: 'bar', expr: 'my_metric{label1="value1"}' };
+    const result = instance.importQueries([promQuery], 'prometheus');
+    expect(result).toEqual([{ isLogsQuery: true, query: '__name__:"my_metric" AND label1:"value1"', refId: 'bar' }]);
+  });
+  it('Prometheus query with exact equals labels ( 1 labels )', () => {
+    const instance = new LanguageProvider(dataSource);
+    var promQuery: PromQuery = { refId: 'bar', expr: '{label1="value1"}' };
+    const result = instance.importQueries([promQuery], 'prometheus');
+    expect(result).toEqual([{ isLogsQuery: true, query: 'label1:"value1"', refId: 'bar' }]);
+  });
+  it('Prometheus query with no label and metric __name__', () => {
+    const instance = new LanguageProvider(dataSource);
+    var promQuery: PromQuery = { refId: 'bar', expr: 'my_metric{}' };
+    const result = instance.importQueries([promQuery], 'prometheus');
+    expect(result).toEqual([{ isLogsQuery: true, query: '__name__:"my_metric"', refId: 'bar' }]);
+  });
+  it('Prometheus query with no label and metric __name__ without bracket', () => {
+    const instance = new LanguageProvider(dataSource);
+    var promQuery: PromQuery = { refId: 'bar', expr: 'my_metric' };
+    const result = instance.importQueries([promQuery], 'prometheus');
+    expect(result).toEqual([{ isLogsQuery: true, query: '__name__:"my_metric"', refId: 'bar' }]);
+  });
+  it('Prometheus query with rate function and exact equals labels ( 2 labels ) and metric __name__', () => {
+    const instance = new LanguageProvider(dataSource);
+    var promQuery: PromQuery = { refId: 'bar', expr: 'rate(my_metric{label1="value1",label2="value2"}[5m])' };
+    const result = instance.importQueries([promQuery], 'prometheus');
+    expect(result).toEqual([
+      { isLogsQuery: true, query: '__name__:"my_metric" AND label1:"value1" AND label2:"value2"', refId: 'bar' },
+    ]);
+  });
+  it('Prometheus query with rate function and exact equals labels not equals labels regex and not regex labels and metric __name__', () => {
+    const instance = new LanguageProvider(dataSource);
+    var promQuery: PromQuery = {
+      refId: 'bar',
+      expr: 'rate(my_metric{label1="value1",label2!="value2",label3=~"value.+",label4!~".*tothemoon"}[5m])',
+    };
+    const result = instance.importQueries([promQuery], 'prometheus');
+    expect(result).toEqual([
+      {
+        isLogsQuery: true,
+        query:
+          '__name__:"my_metric" AND label1:"value1" AND NOT label2:"value2" AND label3:/value.+/ AND NOT label4:/.*tothemoon/',
+        refId: 'bar',
+      },
+    ]);
+  });
+});
+describe('transform prometheus query to elasticsearch query errors', () => {
+  it('bad prometheus query with only bracket', () => {
+    const instance = new LanguageProvider(dataSource);
+    var promQuery: PromQuery = { refId: 'bar', expr: '{' };
+    const result = instance.importQueries([promQuery], 'prometheus');
+    expect(result).toEqual([{ isLogsQuery: true, query: '', refId: 'bar' }]);
+  });
+  it('bad prometheus empty query', async () => {
+    const instance = new LanguageProvider(dataSource);
+    var promQuery: PromQuery = { refId: 'bar', expr: '' };
+    const result = instance.importQueries([promQuery], 'prometheus');
+    expect(result).toEqual([{ isLogsQuery: true, query: '', refId: 'bar' }]);
+  });
+  it('graphite query not handle', async () => {
+    const instance = new LanguageProvider(dataSource);
+    var promQuery: PromQuery = { refId: 'bar', expr: '' };
+    const result = instance.importQueries([promQuery], 'graphite');
+    expect(result).toEqual([{ isLogsQuery: true, query: '', refId: 'bar' }]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/language_provider.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/language_provider.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..988f518ba02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/language_provider.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+import { ElasticsearchQuery } from './types';
+import { DataQuery, LanguageProvider } from '@grafana/data';
+
+import { ElasticDatasource } from './datasource';
+
+import { PromQuery } from '../prometheus/types';
+
+import Prism, { Token } from 'prismjs';
+import grammar from '../prometheus/promql';
+
+function getNameLabelValue(promQuery: string, tokens: any): string {
+  let nameLabelValue = '';
+  for (let prop in tokens) {
+    if (typeof tokens[prop] === 'string') {
+      nameLabelValue = tokens[prop] as string;
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+  return nameLabelValue;
+}
+
+function extractPrometheusLabels(promQuery: string): string[][] {
+  const labels: string[][] = [];
+  if (!promQuery || promQuery.length === 0) {
+    return labels;
+  }
+  const tokens = Prism.tokenize(promQuery, grammar);
+  const nameLabelValue = getNameLabelValue(promQuery, tokens);
+  if (nameLabelValue && nameLabelValue.length > 0) {
+    labels.push(['__name__', '=', '"' + nameLabelValue + '"']);
+  }
+
+  for (let prop in tokens) {
+    if (tokens[prop] instanceof Token) {
+      let token: Token = tokens[prop] as Token;
+      if (token.type === 'context-labels') {
+        let labelKey = '';
+        let labelValue = '';
+        let labelOperator = '';
+        let contentTokens: any[] = token.content as any[];
+        for (let currentToken in contentTokens) {
+          if (typeof contentTokens[currentToken] === 'string') {
+            let currentStr: string;
+            currentStr = contentTokens[currentToken] as string;
+            if (currentStr === '=' || currentStr === '!=' || currentStr === '=~' || currentStr === '!~') {
+              labelOperator = currentStr;
+            }
+          } else if (contentTokens[currentToken] instanceof Token) {
+            switch (contentTokens[currentToken].type) {
+              case 'label-key':
+                labelKey = contentTokens[currentToken].content as string;
+                break;
+              case 'label-value':
+                labelValue = contentTokens[currentToken].content as string;
+                labels.push([labelKey, labelOperator, labelValue]);
+                break;
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return labels;
+}
+
+function getElasticsearchQuery(prometheusLabels: string[][]): string {
+  let elasticsearchLuceneLabels = [];
+  for (let keyOperatorValue of prometheusLabels) {
+    switch (keyOperatorValue[1]) {
+      case '=': {
+        elasticsearchLuceneLabels.push(keyOperatorValue[0] + ':' + keyOperatorValue[2]);
+        break;
+      }
+      case '!=': {
+        elasticsearchLuceneLabels.push('NOT ' + keyOperatorValue[0] + ':' + keyOperatorValue[2]);
+        break;
+      }
+      case '=~': {
+        elasticsearchLuceneLabels.push(
+          keyOperatorValue[0] + ':/' + keyOperatorValue[2].substring(1, keyOperatorValue[2].length - 1) + '/'
+        );
+        break;
+      }
+      case '!~': {
+        elasticsearchLuceneLabels.push(
+          'NOT ' + keyOperatorValue[0] + ':/' + keyOperatorValue[2].substring(1, keyOperatorValue[2].length - 1) + '/'
+        );
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return elasticsearchLuceneLabels.join(' AND ');
+}
+
+export default class ElasticsearchLanguageProvider extends LanguageProvider {
+  request: (url: string, params?: any) => Promise<any>;
+  start: () => Promise<any[]>;
+  datasource: ElasticDatasource;
+
+  constructor(datasource: ElasticDatasource, initialValues?: any) {
+    super();
+    this.datasource = datasource;
+
+    Object.assign(this, initialValues);
+  }
+
+  importQueries(queries: DataQuery[], datasourceType: string): ElasticsearchQuery[] {
+    if (datasourceType === 'prometheus' || datasourceType === 'loki') {
+      return queries.map(query => {
+        let prometheusQuery: PromQuery = query as PromQuery;
+        const expr = getElasticsearchQuery(extractPrometheusLabels(prometheusQuery.expr));
+        return {
+          isLogsQuery: true,
+          query: expr,
+          refId: query.refId,
+        };
+      });
+    }
+    return queries.map(query => {
+      return {
+        isLogsQuery: true,
+        query: '',
+        refId: query.refId,
+      };
+    });
+  }
+}