Comparison

Elastic Observability vs Last9

On the evidence we track, Elastic Observability leads this comparison with a composite score of 58/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Elastic Observability58
Last948
Score
vioscaleAI score
Elastic Observability58 / 100medium · 53%
Last948 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tier
Elastic Observability✗
Last9✓
Model
Elastic Observabilitycommercial
Last9free
Price level
Elastic Observabilityunknown
Last9free
Transparent
Elastic Observability✗
Last9✗
Integrations
Count
Elastic Observability450
Last9100
Security
Gdpr
Elastic Observability✓
Last9✓
Hipaa
Elastic Observability–
Last9✓
Scorecard
Elastic Observability5.6
Last9–
Trust center
Reliability
Status page
Elastic Observability✓
Last9✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elastic Observability18,551
Last9–
Github stars
Elastic Observability78,270
Last9–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elastic Observability100
Last9–
Release
History
Elastic Observability20 items
Last9–
Language
Primary
Elastic ObservabilityJava
Last9–
Content
Faq
Elastic Observability7 items
Last97 items

Capabilities

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

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 cloud monitoring platform that consolidates logs, metrics, and distributed traces from applications and infrastructure, using AI to help teams identify root causes and resolve incidents faster.

Independently observed

Last9

Last9 enables teams to monitor applications and infrastructure through metrics, logs, and traces collected via OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. It offers service discovery, real-user performance monitoring, threshold-based and anomaly detection alerting, service-level objective tracking, and dashboarding for visibility across cloud infrastructure and applications.

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
Subscription

Subscription-based with Gold, Platinum, and Enterprise tiers available.

  • Gold-
  • Platinum-
  • Enterprise-
as of verify ↗

Last9

FreeFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Elastic Observability✓
Last9✓
iOS
Elastic Observability✗
Last9✓
Android
Elastic Observability✗
Last9✓
CLI
Elastic Observability✓
Last9✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elastic Observability✓
Last9✓

Integrations

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

In common (10)
  • Slack
  • Jira
  • PagerDuty
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Webhook
  • Logstash
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Claude
  • Terraform

Elastic Observability

Leader
40 total - 30 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
  • +6 more
Independently observed

Last9

76 total - 66 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
  • +42 more
Independently observed
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