diff --git a/packages/kbn-monaco/src/console/lexer_rules/nested_painless.ts b/packages/kbn-monaco/src/console/lexer_rules/nested_painless.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8b4fcda56a64a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-monaco/src/console/lexer_rules/nested_painless.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright Elasticsearch B.V. and/or licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. Licensed under the "Elastic License
+ * 2.0", the "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only", and the "Server Side
+ * Public License v 1"; you may not use this file except in compliance with, at
+ * your election, the "Elastic License 2.0", the "GNU Affero General Public
+ * License v3.0 only", or the "Server Side Public License, v 1".
+ */
+
+import { lexerRules as painlessLexerRules } from '../../painless/lexer_rules';
+
+/*
+ * This rule is used inside json root to start a painless highlighting sequence
+ */
+export const buildPainlessStartRule = (painlessRoot: string = 'painless_root') => {
+  return [
+    /("(?:[^"]*_)?script"|"inline"|"source")(\s*?)(:)(\s*?)(""")/,
+    [
+      'variable',
+      'whitespace',
+      'punctuation.colon',
+      'whitespace',
+      {
+        token: 'punctuation',
+        next: `@${painlessRoot}`,
+      },
+    ],
+  ];
+};
+
+/*
+ * This function creates a group of rules needed for painless highlighting in console.
+ * It reuses the lexer rules from the "painless" language, but since not all rules are referenced in the root
+ * tokenizer and to avoid conflicts with existing console rules, only selected rules are used.
+ */
+export const buildPainlessRules = (painlessRoot: string = 'painless_root') => {
+  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/naming-convention
+  const { root, comment, string_dq, string_sq } = painlessLexerRules.tokenizer;
+  return {
+    [painlessRoot]: [
+      // the rule to end painless highlighting and get back to the previous tokenizer state
+      [
+        /"""/,
+        {
+          token: 'punctuation',
+          next: '@pop',
+        },
+      ],
+      ...root,
+    ],
+    comment,
+    string_dq,
+    string_sq,
+  };
+};
+
+/*
+ * These language attributes need to be added to the console language definition for painless tokenizer
+ * to work correctly.
+ */
+export const painlessLanguageAttributes = {
+  keywords: painlessLexerRules.keywords,
+  primitives: painlessLexerRules.primitives,
+  constants: painlessLexerRules.constants,
+  operators: painlessLexerRules.operators,
+  symbols: painlessLexerRules.symbols,
+  digits: painlessLexerRules.digits,
+  octaldigits: painlessLexerRules.octaldigits,
+  binarydigits: painlessLexerRules.binarydigits,
+  hexdigits: painlessLexerRules.hexdigits,
+};
diff --git a/packages/kbn-monaco/src/console/lexer_rules/shared.ts b/packages/kbn-monaco/src/console/lexer_rules/shared.ts
index 62c8a28d31c65..b508d5954a3f7 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-monaco/src/console/lexer_rules/shared.ts
+++ b/packages/kbn-monaco/src/console/lexer_rules/shared.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
  */
 
 import { buildSqlRules, buildSqlStartRule, sqlLanguageAttributes } from './nested_sql';
+import {
+  buildPainlessRules,
+  buildPainlessStartRule,
+  painlessLanguageAttributes,
+} from './nested_painless';
 import { monaco } from '../../..';
 import { globals } from '../../common/lexer_rules';
 import { buildXjsonRules } from '../../xjson/lexer_rules/xjson';
@@ -16,11 +21,13 @@ export const consoleSharedLanguageConfiguration: monaco.languages.LanguageConfig
   brackets: [
     ['{', '}'],
     ['[', ']'],
+    ['(', ')'],
     ['"""', '"""\n'],
   ],
   autoClosingPairs: [
     { open: '{', close: '}' },
     { open: '[', close: ']' },
+    { open: '(', close: ')' },
     { open: '"', close: '"' },
     { open: '"""', close: '"""' },
   ],
@@ -100,10 +107,13 @@ xjsonRules.json_root = [
   matchToken('variable.template', /("\${\w+}")/),
   // @ts-expect-error include a rule to start sql highlighting
   buildSqlStartRule(),
+  // @ts-expect-error include a rule to start painless highlighting
+  buildPainlessStartRule(),
   ...xjsonRules.json_root,
 ];
 
 const sqlRules = buildSqlRules();
+const painlessRules = buildPainlessRules();
 /*
  Lexer rules that are shared between the Console editor and the Console output panel.
  */
@@ -111,6 +121,8 @@ export const consoleSharedLexerRules: monaco.languages.IMonarchLanguage = {
   ...(globals as any),
   defaultToken: 'invalid',
   ...sqlLanguageAttributes,
+  ...painlessLanguageAttributes,
+  keywords: [...sqlLanguageAttributes.keywords, ...painlessLanguageAttributes.keywords],
   tokenizer: {
     root: [
       // warning comment
@@ -138,5 +150,7 @@ export const consoleSharedLexerRules: monaco.languages.IMonarchLanguage = {
     ...xjsonRules,
     // include sql rules
     ...sqlRules,
+    // include painless rules
+    ...painlessRules,
   },
 };