Elastic (ELK Stack) vs Loggly
On the evidence we track, Elastic (ELK Stack) leads this comparison with a composite score of 64/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for log management software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Elastic (ELK Stack)
LeaderOpen-source system for collecting logs and application data, indexing them for searchability, and providing interactive dashboards for analysis. Supports both cloud-hosted and self-managed deployments.
Loggly
A cloud service that aggregates logs from multiple sources and provides searching, analysis, visualization, and alerting capabilities for application monitoring and troubleshooting.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Elastic (ELK Stack)
LeaderFrom $99/month. Subscription model with free 14-day trial. Usage-based pricing for cloud resources (120 GB storage / 2 zones baseline).
- StandardFrom $99/month. Free 14-day trial.
- Distributed Elasticsearch Platform on AWS, Azure, GCP
- Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL)
- AutoOps monitoring
- Hundreds of out-of-the-box integrations
- Discover, dashboards, alerting
- +4 more
- GoldFrom $114/month. Includes reporting and third-party integrations.
- Everything in Standard
- Reporting
- Third-party alerting actions
- Watcher
- Enterprise Search
- +2 more
- PlatinumFrom $131/month. ML and advanced security included.
- Everything in Gold
- Advanced security features
- Machine learning: anomaly detection, supervised learning
- Cross-cluster replication
- Semantic and vector search with ML models (ELSER, e5)
- +5 more
- EnterpriseFrom $184/month. Full AI suite and advanced automation.
- Everything in Platinum
- Searchable snapshots in cold/frozen tiers
- Elastic Maps Server
- Cross-cluster search and ES|QL Data Federation
- GPU inference with Elastic Inference Service
- +10 more
Loggly
From $79/month (annual billing), with free tier
- LiteFree
- Centralized log management
- Automated log summaries
- Search & filters
- Standard$79/month billed annually
- All Lite features
- Unlimited users
- Up to 3 source groups
- Email alerting
- Charts and dashboards
- +1 more
- Pro$159/month billed annually
- All Standard features
- Up to 5 source groups
- Email and webhook alerts
- Custom derived fields (up to 10 rules)
- API access
- +2 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- All Pro features
- Unlimited source groups
- Unlimited derived field rules
- Custom retention periods
- Technical success management
- +4 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Slack
- PagerDuty
- Microsoft Teams
- Logstash
Elastic (ELK Stack)
Leader- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Jina AI
- Amazon Bedrock
- Google Vertex AI
- Microsoft Azure AI
- Mistral
- Cohere
- Hugging Face
- NVIDIA
- IBM watsonx
- LlamaIndex
- LangChain
- Vectorize.io
- Jira
- ServiceNow
- xMatters
- IBM Resilient
- Filebeat
- Metricbeat
- Heartbeat
- Elastic Agent
- Osquery
- AWS S3
- +4 more
Loggly
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon ELB
- Amazon S3
- AWS Lambda
- Docker
- Elasticsearch
- Flowdock
- GitHub
- Graylog
- HipChat
- JIRA Software
- Mandrill
- Monolog
- New Relic
- Pushover
- Rollbar
- Sentry
- VictorOps
- Webhooks
Elastic (ELK Stack) or Loggly: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
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