# Elastic (ELK Stack) vs OpenObserve

| Attribute | Elastic (ELK Stack) | OpenObserve |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 64.4 (65% (medium)) | 65.2 (68% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 18,551 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 78,270 | 22,343 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 479 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A cloud-based observability and search platform that ingests logs from multiple sources, automatically structures them with AI, and enables full-text search, alerting, dashboards, and machine learning analysis on unstructured data. It is indexed under Log Management Software.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What is Elastic (ELK Stack)?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic (ELK Stack) offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $99 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Is Elastic (ELK Stack) free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic (ELK Stack) supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What platforms does Elastic (ELK Stack) support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Elastic (ELK Stack) can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Can Elastic (ELK Stack) be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 31 integrations for Elastic (ELK Stack), including OpenAI, Anthropic, Jina AI, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, Mistral and Cohere, plus 23 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What does Elastic (ELK Stack) integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed ISO 27001 and GDPR for Elastic (ELK Stack). Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elastic (ELK Stack) not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/trust/faq","question":"What security certifications does Elastic (ELK Stack) have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Elastic (ELK Stack) is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the United Kingdom. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Where is Elastic (ELK Stack) available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"A cost-effective, full-stack observability solution that ingests and monitors logs, traces, metrics, and real-user monitoring data with native OpenTelemetry support. Available as a managed cloud service or self-hosted open-source deployment, using compression and columnar storage to dramatically reduce infrastructure costs. It is indexed under Log Management Software.","source":"https://openobserve.ai/dynatrace_pricing_comparison/","question":"What is OpenObserve?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"OpenObserve is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $0.01. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://openobserve.ai/dynatrace_pricing_comparison/","question":"Is OpenObserve free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"OpenObserve supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://openobserve.ai/dynatrace_pricing_comparison/","question":"What platforms does OpenObserve support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. OpenObserve can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://openobserve.ai/dynatrace_pricing_comparison/","question":"Can OpenObserve be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 9 integrations for OpenObserve, including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, SQL, PromQL, Apache Parquet, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage, plus 1 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://openobserve.ai/dynatrace_pricing_comparison/","question":"What does OpenObserve integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for OpenObserve. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as OpenObserve not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://openobserve.ai","question":"What security certifications does OpenObserve have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. OpenObserve is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve","question":"Is OpenObserve open source?","confidence":0.67}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Open-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. | OpenObserve is a cloud-native observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, real user monitoring, and AI/LLM observability in a single system. Using Parquet columnar storage on object storage backends, it achieves significantly lower infrastructure costs than traditional platforms while supporting flexible deployment across cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"log_role":"platform","live_tail":true,"dashboards":true,"query_language":"ES|QL (with native PromQL support)","full_text_search":true,"retention_tiering":true,"structured_parsing":true,"object_store_backed":false}` | `{"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"log_role":"backend","dashboards":true,"otel_support":"native","pii_redaction":true,"query_language":"SQL, PromQL, VRL","full_text_search":true,"retention_tiering":true,"structured_parsing":true,"object_store_backed":true}` |
| integrations.count | 6 | 18 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Jina AI"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Google Vertex AI"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure AI"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"IBM watsonx"},{"name":"LlamaIndex"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"Vectorize.io"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"Filebeat"},{"name":"Metricbeat"},{"name":"Heartbeat"},{"name":"Elastic Agent"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Osquery"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"Red Hat"},{"name":"Unstructured.io"},{"name":"Aryn"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"SQL"},{"name":"PromQL"},{"name":"Apache Parquet"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage"},{"name":"MinIO"},{"name":"Fluent Bit","native":true,"category":"log_collection","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Vector","native":true,"category":"log_collection","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"notifications","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"PagerDuty","native":true,"category":"incident_management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Okta","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Microsoft Entra","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Workspace","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"container_orchestration","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Docker","native":true,"category":"containerization","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Azure AD","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Syslog","native":true,"category":"log_collection","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"bidirectional"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | TypeScript |
| license.spdx | - | AGPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":["US","EU","IN"],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"From $99/month. Free 14-day trial.","features":["Distributed Elasticsearch Platform on AWS, Azure, GCP","Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL)","AutoOps monitoring","Hundreds of out-of-the-box integrations","Discover, dashboards, alerting","Security: detection engine, centralized agent management","Observability: APM, logging, metrics apps","Synthetic monitoring","Limited web support (2 contacts, 3-business day response)"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Foundation plan with Elasticsearch datastore, integrations, monitoring, security basics, and observability.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Gold","summary":"From $114/month. Includes reporting and third-party integrations.","features":["Everything in Standard","Reporting","Third-party alerting actions","Watcher","Enterprise Search","Advanced workflows","Base support (business hours, phone/web, 6 contacts)"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":114,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Standard plan plus reporting, advanced alerting, third-party actions, enterprise search, and business hours support.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Platinum","summary":"From $131/month. ML and advanced security included.","features":["Everything in Gold","Advanced security features","Machine learning: anomaly detection, supervised learning","Cross-cluster replication","Semantic and vector search with ML models (ELSER, e5)","AI-assisted pipelines with Streams","Log categorization, service maps","Service Level Objectives","24/7/365 support (1-hour urgent response, 8 contacts)","99.95% monthly uptime SLA"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":131,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Gold plan plus advanced security, machine learning, cross-cluster replication, and 24/7 support with 1-hour urgent response.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"From $184/month. Full AI suite and advanced automation.","features":["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","Elastic Agent Builder powered by LLM","AI-assisted dashboard creation","Elastic Workflows (automation)","SAML SSO","Inference Service management","Hybrid search and RAG","Semantic reranking","Attack Discovery (agentic investigation)","Premium support (30-minute urgent response, 8 contacts)","99.95% monthly uptime SLA"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":184,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Platinum plan plus advanced AI features, searchable snapshots, GPU inference, workflow automation, SAML SSO, and premium 30-minute support.","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"test_run"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0123,"currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":28,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $99/month. Subscription model with free 14-day trial. Usage-based pricing for cloud resources (120 GB storage / 2 zones baseline).","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T11:07:35.066Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Cloud Professional","summary":"$0.50/GB ingested + $0.01/GB queried, billed monthly. 30% discount with annual commitment.","features":["Logs, Metrics, Traces, RUM, Session Replay, Error tracking","Unlimited users","Single Sign-On (SSO)","Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)","19+ dashboard chart types","Real-time and scheduled alerts","Natural language query assistant","Pipelines with data transformation"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gb"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gb"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Pay-as-you-go fully managed cloud","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"metrics_retention_months":"15","non_metrics_retention_days":"30"}},{"free":true,"name":"Self-Hosted Enterprise Free","summary":"Free up to 50 GB/day ingestion","features":["All observability features","Single Sign-On (SSO)","Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)","Audit trail with 365-day immutable logs","Sensitive data redaction","Federated search","Query management"],"description":"Self-hosted with enterprise features, free tier","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"max_daily_ingestion_gb":"50"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["Custom volume discounts","Bring Your Own Bucket (BYOB) - infinite retention","All observability features","AI-Powered Observability with incident management and AI SRE agent","Premium support","Deployment flexibility (cloud, on-prem, air-gapped)","HIPAA compliance support","PCI-DSS compliance support","Architecture reviews","SLAs"],"description":"Custom-scale deployment with compliance and flexible storage","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Additional retention for non-metrics data","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gb"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.02,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $0.50/GB ingested + $0.01/GB queried. 14-day free trial (no card required). Self-hosted free up to 50 GB/day.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://openobserve.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T13:50:57.219Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"unit":"gb","amount":0.01,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | high | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 5 |
| release.history | 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|
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.95 | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 5.6 | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.elastic.co/legal/ethics-and-compliance | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":45,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100","last_12m":2,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=nixpkgs&package_name=openobserve&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Log Management Software)

| Capability | Elastic (ELK Stack) | OpenObserve |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Pipeline role | End-to-end platform | Backend |
| **Search** |  |  |
| Full-text log search | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live tail / stream | ✓ | - |
| **Processing** |  |  |
| Structured parsing | ✓ | ✓ |
| PII redaction at ingest | - | ✓ |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Log-based alerting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dashboards / visualisation | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Retention tiering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Object-store columnar backend | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Interop** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry logs | - | Native |
| Query language | ES|QL (with native PromQL support) | SQL, PromQL, VRL |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:18:18.050Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*