Comparison

Elastic Observability vs Grafana

No clear leader: Elastic Observability (64.6) and Grafana (63.8) 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 Observability full profile →Grafana full profile →

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Elastic Observability65

Grafana64

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Elastic Observability	Grafana
Vioscale score	65 / 100medium · 60%	64 / 100high · 76%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	commercial	freemium
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	low
Transparentpricing.transparent	✗	✗
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	450	7
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	-	✓
Fedrampsecurity.fedramp	-	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	✓
Iso27001security.iso27001	-	✓
Pcisecurity.pci	-	✓
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	6.9	6.8
Soc2security.soc2	-	✓
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.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: 1 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=%40grafana%2Fdata&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 · Max severity: MODERATE
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	18,551	1,048
Github starsadoption.github_stars	77,862	76,431
Package downloads weeklyadoption.package_downloads_weekly	-	100,948
Stackoverflow questionsadoption.stackoverflow_questions	-	14,000
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	100	100
Release
Historyrelease.history	20 items	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	-	AGPL-3.0
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Java	TypeScript
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · Popular in US, GB · HQ US	Available worldwide · Popular in US
Content
Faqcontent.faq	-	7 items

Score

Vioscale score

Elastic Observability65 / 100medium · 60%

Grafana64 / 100high · 76%

Pricing

Free tier

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

Model

Elastic Observabilitycommercial

Grafanafreemium

Price level

Elastic Observabilitylow

Grafanalow

Transparent

Elastic Observability✗

Grafana✗

Integrations

Count

Elastic Observability450

Grafana7

Security

Disclosure policy

Elastic Observability–

Grafana✓

Fedramp

Elastic Observability–

Grafana✓

Gdpr

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

Iso27001

Elastic Observability–

Grafana✓

Pci

Elastic Observability–

Grafana✓

Scorecard

Elastic Observability6.9

Grafana6.8

Soc2

Elastic Observability–

Grafana✓

Vulnerabilities

Elastic ObservabilityCount: 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

GrafanaCount: 1 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=%40grafana%2Fdata&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 · Max severity: MODERATE

Reliability

Status page

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

Elastic Observability18,551

Grafana1,048

Github stars

Elastic Observability77,862

Grafana76,431

Package downloads weekly

Elastic Observability–

Grafana100,948

Stackoverflow questions

Elastic Observability–

Grafana14,000

Activity

Commits last 30d

Elastic Observability100

Grafana100

Release

History

Elastic Observability20 items

Grafana20 items

License

Spdx

Elastic Observability–

GrafanaAGPL-3.0

Language

Primary

Elastic ObservabilityJava

GrafanaTypeScript

Market

Availability

Elastic ObservabilityAvailable worldwide · Popular in US, GB · HQ US

GrafanaAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

Content

Faq

Elastic Observability–

Grafana7 items

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for Observability Tools
Capability	Elastic Observability	Grafana
Signals
Metrics	✓	✓
Log management	✓	✓
Distributed tracing	✓	✓
Application performance monitoring	✓	✓
Real-user monitoring	✓	✓
Response
Alerting	✓	✓
On-call / incident management	✓	✓
Insight
Dashboards	✓	✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry-native	✓	✓
Deployment
Hosting	Cloud + self-hosted	Cloud + self-hosted

Signals

Metrics

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

Log management

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

Distributed tracing

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

Application performance monitoring

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

Real-user monitoring

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

Response

Alerting

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

On-call / incident management

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

Insight

Dashboards

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

Standards

OpenTelemetry-native

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

Deployment

Hosting

Elastic ObservabilityCloud + self-hosted

GrafanaCloud + self-hosted

What each one is

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

Elastic Observability

A unified observability platform that ingests logs, metrics, and traces to provide real-time system insights powered by AI agents. Elastic Observability automates root cause analysis and incident response while maintaining operator visibility and control, with support for open standards and multi-cloud deployment.

Independently observed

Grafana

A full-stack observability platform that ingests telemetry data from multiple sources and provides dashboards, alerting, incident management, and AI-assisted troubleshooting. Supports open standards including OpenTelemetry and can be deployed as a cloud service or self-hosted.

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 Observability

Quote-basedFree tier14-day trial

Free tier available. Platinum and Enterprise require contacting sales.

FreeFree
- Elasticsearch
- Kibana
- Data ingestion via OTel, Logstash, Beats
- Native authentication and TLS encryption
- Basic monitoring
- +3 more
PlatinumContact sales
- Everything in Free
- Single sign-on (SSO), LDAP/Active Directory
- Field/document-level security
- Audit logging
- Anomaly detection for logs/metrics
- +10 more
EnterpriseContact sales
- Everything in Platinum
- Searchable snapshots on S3
- Attack Discovery (GenAI security)
- Universal Profiling
- Cross-cluster search
- +13 more

as of 2026-08-14verify ↗

Grafana

from $0.05/moHybridFree tier

Free forever tier always available. Pro plans from $19/month + usage with volume discounts. Enterprise from $25,000/year with custom terms.

FreeFree
- All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage
- Community support
- 14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and k6 performance tests
ProFrom $19/month + usage with automatic volume discounts
- Everything in Free plan
- Pay as you go above free tier with volume discounts
- 8×5 email support
- 13 months retention for metrics; 30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, k6 performance tests
- Adaptive Logs and Metrics cost optimization
EnterpriseContact sales
- Premium support
- Custom retention policies
- Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)
- As low as $3 per 1k series for metrics at scale
- Custom pricing based on annual commit and volume

as of 2026-08-05verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Elastic Observability	Grafana
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
iOSPlatforms	✗	✓
AndroidPlatforms	✗	✓
macOSPlatforms	✓	✗
WindowsPlatforms	✓	✗
LinuxPlatforms	✓	✗
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓
On-premiseDeployment	✓	✗
HybridDeployment	✓	✗
Air-gappedDeployment	✓	✗

Platforms

Web

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

iOS

Elastic Observability✗

Grafana✓

Android

Elastic Observability✗

Grafana✓

macOS

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✗

Windows

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✗

Linux

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✗

CLI

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

Self-hosted

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✓

On-premise

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✗

Hybrid

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✗

Air-gapped

Elastic Observability✓

Grafana✗

Integrations

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

In common (1)

Kubernetes

Elastic Observability

36 total - 35 not shared

OpenAI
Anthropic
Jina AI
Amazon Bedrock
Azure OpenAI Service
Google Vertex AI
Mistral
Cohere
Meta
NVIDIA
Hugging Face
IBM watsonx
Alibaba Cloud
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Unstructured.io
Aryn
Vectorize.io
Slack
Jira
ServiceNow
PagerDuty
Microsoft Teams
xMatters
+11 more

Independently observed

Grafana

7 total - 6 not shared

Prometheus
Loki
Elasticsearch
InfluxDB
Postgres
AWS

Independently observed

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