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Comparison

Elastic APM vs Lumigo

No clear leader: Lumigo (53.0) and Elastic APM (49.6) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Elastic APM full profile →Lumigo full profile →
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Elastic APM50
Lumigo53
Score
Vioscale score
Elastic APM50 / 100medium · 60%
Lumigo53 / 100medium · 73%
Pricing
Free tier
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo✓
Model
Elastic APMcommercial
Lumigofreemium
Price level
Elastic APMlow
Lumigolow
Transparent
Elastic APM✗
Lumigo✗
Integrations
Count
Elastic APM28
Lumigo5
Security
Gdpr
Elastic APM–
Lumigo✓
Hipaa
Elastic APM–
Lumigo✓
Scorecard
Elastic APM6.9
Lumigo–
Soc2
Elastic APM–
Lumigo✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elastic APM6
Lumigo–
Github stars
Elastic APM1,272
Lumigo–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elastic APM29
Lumigo–
Release
History
Elastic APM20 items
Lumigo–
Language
Primary
Elastic APMGo
Lumigo–
Market
Availability
Elastic APMAvailable worldwide · HQ US
Lumigo–

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for apm tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo✓
Distributed tracing
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo✓
Insight
Service map
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo✓
Code / continuous profiling
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo-
Database monitoring
Elastic APM-
Lumigo-
Error analytics
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo✓
Real-user monitoring
Elastic APM-
Lumigo-
SLO / error-budget tracking
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
Elastic APMOTel-native
LumigoOTel-native
Core
Language agents
Elastic APMJava, .NET, Python, Node.js, PHP, iOS, Android
Lumigo-
Deployment
Hosting
Elastic APMCloud + self-hosted
LumigoCloud + self-hosted

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Elastic APM

Application performance monitoring solution built on OpenTelemetry that automatically instruments applications, visualizes service dependencies, and identifies performance issues through distributed tracing and root cause analysis.

Independently observed

Lumigo

Lumigo is an AI-powered observability platform providing root cause analysis, distributed tracing, and log management for microservice environments across AWS, Kubernetes, and OpenTelemetry.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Elastic APM

HybridFree tier14-day trial

Free open source self-managed. Platinum and Enterprise tiers available via contact sales. 14-day free trial for Elastic Cloud.

  • Open SourceFree
    • Elasticsearch search engine and vector database
    • Kibana visualization and analytics interface
    • Data ingestion with OTel, Logstash, and Beats
    • Basic authentication and RBAC
    • TLS encryption
    • +2 more
  • PlatinumContact sales
    • SSO, LDAP/Active Directory, field/document-level security
    • Automated anomaly detection for logs and metrics
    • ELSER semantic search models
    • Cross-cluster replication for high availability
    • Service maps from APM data
    • +4 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Searchable snapshots for long-term low-cost storage
    • Attack Discovery automated alert triage
    • Universal Profiling for code-level performance data
    • Cross-cluster search with advanced security
    • Elastic Agent Builder for RAG and search development
    • +6 more
as of verify ↗

Lumigo

from $119/moSubscriptionFree tier14-day trial

From $99/mo (annual). Free tier with 150k traces/mo. 14-day free trial.

  • BasicFree
    • 150k Traces/mo
    • 14 Day Trace Retention
    • 5GB/mo Logs
    • 3 Days Log Retention
    • 5GB/mo Metrics
    • +3 more
  • Standard$99/mo annual, $119/mo monthly
    • 1M Traces/mo
    • 14 Day Trace Retention
    • 40GB/mo Logs
    • 7 Days Log Retention
    • 40GB/mo Metrics
    • +4 more
  • Plus$299/mo annual, $359/mo monthly
    • 5M Traces/mo
    • 14 Day Trace Retention
    • 100GB/mo Logs
    • 30 Days Log Retention
    • 100GB/mo Metrics
    • +4 more
  • CustomContact sales
    • Custom Traces
    • Custom Trace Retention
    • Custom Log Volume
    • Custom Log Retention
    • Custom Metrics
    • +9 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo✓
CLI
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo✓
Self-hosted
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo✓
On-premise
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo✗
Air-gapped
Elastic APM✓
Lumigo✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Elastic APM

28 total
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Jina AI
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Aryn
  • LlamaIndex
  • Red Hat
  • Microsoft Azure AI
  • Hugging Face
  • Mistral
  • Cohere
  • Google Vertex AI
  • NVIDIA
  • Alibaba Cloud
  • IBM watsonx
  • Unstructured.io
  • LangChain
  • Apache Spark
  • Apache Hive
  • Slack
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • PagerDuty
  • Microsoft Teams
  • +4 more
Independently observed

Lumigo

5 total
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Serverless Framework
  • CircleCI
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.