Comparison

Elastic Observability vs Last9

On the evidence we track, Elastic Observability leads this comparison with a composite score of 65/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Elastic Observability full profile →Last9 full profile →

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★Elastic Observability65

Last948

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Elastic ObservabilityLeader	Last9
Vioscale score	65 / 100medium · 60%updating	48 / 100medium · 73%updating
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	commercial	free
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	free
Transparentpricing.transparent	✗	✗
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	450	100
Security
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	-	✓
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	6.9	-
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	-
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	18,551	-
Github starsadoption.github_stars	77,862	-
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	100	-
Release
Historyrelease.history	20 items	-
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Java	-
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · Popular in US, GB · HQ US	Available worldwide · Popular in US, GB · HQ US

Score

Vioscale score

Elastic Observability65 / 100medium · 60%updating

Last948 / 100medium · 73%updating

Pricing

Free tier

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

Model

Elastic Observabilitycommercial

Last9free

Price level

Elastic Observabilitylow

Last9free

Transparent

Elastic Observability✗

Last9✗

Integrations

Count

Elastic Observability450

Last9100

Security

Gdpr

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

Hipaa

Elastic Observability–

Last9✓

Scorecard

Elastic Observability6.9

Last9–

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

Last9–

Reliability

Status page

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

Elastic Observability18,551

Last9–

Github stars

Elastic Observability77,862

Last9–

Activity

Commits last 30d

Elastic Observability100

Last9–

Release

History

Elastic Observability20 items

Last9–

Language

Primary

Elastic ObservabilityJava

Last9–

Market

Availability

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

Last9Available worldwide · Popular in US, GB · HQ US

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for Observability Tools
Capability	Elastic Observability	Last9
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 only

Signals

Metrics

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

Log management

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

Distributed tracing

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

Application performance monitoring

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

Real-user monitoring

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

Response

Alerting

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

On-call / incident management

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

Insight

Dashboards

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

Standards

OpenTelemetry-native

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

Deployment

Hosting

Elastic ObservabilityCloud + self-hosted

Last9Cloud only

What each one is

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

Elastic Observability

Leader

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

Last9

A unified observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and Prometheus that manages logs, metrics, and traces with high-cardinality storage. It includes AI-assisted incident investigation, real-time alerting, and user monitoring capabilities.

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

Leader

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 ↗

Last9

FreeFree tier

as of 2026-08-13verify ↗

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	Last9
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
iOSPlatforms	✗	✓
AndroidPlatforms	✗	✓
macOSPlatforms	✓	✗
WindowsPlatforms	✓	✗
LinuxPlatforms	✓	✗
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✗
On-premiseDeployment	✓	✗
HybridDeployment	✓	✗
Air-gappedDeployment	✓	✗

Platforms

Web

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

iOS

Elastic Observability✗

Last9✓

Android

Elastic Observability✗

Last9✓

macOS

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✗

Windows

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✗

Linux

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✗

CLI

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✓

Self-hosted

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✗

On-premise

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✗

Hybrid

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✗

Air-gapped

Elastic Observability✓

Last9✗

Integrations

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

In common (8)

Slack
Jira
PagerDuty
Microsoft Teams
Webhook
Logstash
Kubernetes
Docker

Elastic Observability

Leader

36 total - 28 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
ServiceNow
xMatters
IBM Resilient
AWS S3
Beats
Filebeat
+4 more

Independently observed

Last9

50 total - 42 not shared

Opsgenie
Telegram
Zenduty
Google Chat
Flock
GitHub Actions
ArgoCD
Buildkite
Jenkins
AWS
Azure
GCP
ECS
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Redis
Oracle
DynamoDB
RDS
S3
Cassandra
Neo4j
Flask
+18 more

Independently observed

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