# Elastic Observability vs Last9

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Elastic Observability

| Attribute | Elastic Observability | Last9 |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 57.8 (53% (medium)) | 48.4 (72% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 18,551 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 78,270 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"What is Elastic Observability?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic Observability does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 3 plans (Free, Platinum and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"How much does Elastic Observability cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic Observability supports the web, Windows, macOS, Linux 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/self-managed","question":"What platforms does Elastic Observability support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Elastic Observability can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"Can Elastic Observability be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 35 integrations for Elastic Observability, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Jina AI, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Mistral, Cohere and Meta, plus 27 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/self-managed","question":"What does Elastic Observability integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Elastic Observability. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elastic Observability not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/trust/ai-data-faq","question":"What security certifications does Elastic Observability have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Elastic Observability 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/self-managed","question":"Where is Elastic Observability available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What is Last9?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Is Last9 free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 supports the web, iOS, Android and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What platforms does Last9 support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Last9, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Can Last9 be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 54 integrations for Last9, including Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Zenduty and Google Chat, plus 46 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What does Last9 integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Last9. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Last9 not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What security certifications does Last9 have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the United Kingdom. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Where is Last9 available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"both","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` |
| integrations.count | 450 | 100 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Jina AI"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI Service"},{"name":"Google Vertex AI"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Meta"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"IBM watsonx"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"LlamaIndex"},{"name":"Unstructured.io"},{"name":"Aryn"},{"name":"Vectorize.io"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Beats"},{"name":"Filebeat"},{"name":"Metricbeat"},{"name":"Heartbeat"},{"name":"Elastic Agent"},{"name":"Red Hat"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker JumpStart","category":"ai"},{"name":"Claude","category":"ai"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot CLI","category":"ai"},{"name":"Terraform","category":"infrastructure"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"Zenduty"},{"name":"Google Chat"},{"name":"Flock"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"ArgoCD"},{"name":"Buildkite"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"ECS"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"DynamoDB"},{"name":"RDS"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"Neo4j"},{"name":"Flask"},{"name":"Django"},{"name":"FastAPI"},{"name":"Express.js"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"Spring Boot"},{"name":"Laravel"},{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"CloudWatch"},{"name":"Loki"},{"name":"Fluent Bit"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"iOS"},{"name":"Android"},{"name":"Flutter"},{"name":"React Native"},{"name":"Grafana Loki","category":"logs"},{"name":"Grafana Tempo","category":"tracing"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch","category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS Lambda","category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS ECS","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Azure Monitor","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Google Cloud","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Datadog Agent","category":"observability"},{"name":"Elastic Logstash","category":"logs"},{"name":"n8n","category":"workflow"},{"name":"Spinnaker","category":"ci_cd"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","category":"ai"},{"name":"Claude Cowork","category":"ai"},{"name":"Grafana","native":true,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"iac","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Argo Rollouts","native":true,"category":"deployment","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS CloudFront","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Fastly","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Akamai","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Cloud Functions","native":true,"category":"compute","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Apache","native":true,"category":"web_server","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Nginx","native":true,"category":"web_server","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"MariaDB","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Cloudflare","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | - |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Gold","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Platinum","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Subscription-based with Gold, Platinum, and Enterprise tiers available.","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/observability","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T09:20:44.575Z"}` | `{"type":"free","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://last9.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:06:22.032Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | free |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | free |
| pricing.transparent | no | no |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.5","date":"2026-10-06T14:01:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.8","date":"2026-10-06T14:01:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.23","date":"2026-10-06T14:01:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.23"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.22","date":"2026-09-23T15:20:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.22"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.4","date":"2026-09-15T18:19:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.7","date":"2026-09-15T18:19:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.3","date":"2026-09-03T10:08:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.6","date":"2026-09-01T12:51:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.21","date":"2026-09-01T12:53:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.21"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.2","date":"2026-08-20T16:44:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.1","date":"2026-08-11T17:58:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.5","date":"2026-08-11T17:57:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.20","date":"2026-08-11T18:24:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.20"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.0","date":"2026-08-04T11:46:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.4","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.8","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.19","date":"2026-07-21T13:28:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.18","date":"2026-06-30T16:43:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.7","date":"2026-06-30T16:47:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.3","date":"2026-06-30T14:30:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.3"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 5.6 | - |
| security.trust_center | https://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-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"}` | - |

## Capabilities (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 |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:59:28.607Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*