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Comparison

Elastic Observability vs Sematext

No clear leader: Sematext (69.1) and Elastic Observability (64.6) 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 →Sematext full profile →
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Elastic Observability65
Sematext69
Score
Vioscale score
Elastic Observability65 / 100medium · 60%
Sematext69 / 100low · 49%
Pricing
Free tier
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
Model
Elastic Observabilitycommercial
Sematextfreemium
Price level
Elastic Observabilitylow
Sematextlow
Transparent
Elastic Observability✗
Sematext✓
Integrations
Count
Elastic Observability450
Sematext100
Security
Gdpr
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext–
Scorecard
Elastic Observability6.9
Sematext–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elastic Observability18,551
Sematext–
Github stars
Elastic Observability77,862
Sematext–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elastic Observability100
Sematext–
Release
History
Elastic Observability20 items
Sematext–
Language
Primary
Elastic ObservabilityJava
Sematext–
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

Signals
Metrics
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
Log management
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
Distributed tracing
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
Application performance monitoring
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
Real-user monitoring
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
Response
Alerting
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
On-call / incident management
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
Insight
Dashboards
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry-native
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✗
Deployment
Hosting
Elastic ObservabilityCloud + self-hosted
SematextCloud + 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

Sematext

Cloud-based and self-hosted observability solution that integrates infrastructure monitoring, log management, distributed tracing, and synthetic monitoring in a unified interface. Offers per-product, per-host, or per-monitor billing with no hidden overage charges.

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 verify ↗

Sematext

from $2/moUsage-basedFree tier14-day trial

From $2.8/host/month for infrastructure monitoring. 14-day free trial, no commitment. Metered pricing with no overage charges.

  • LogsFrom $5/month
    • Log ingestion
    • Log analytics
    • Searching and filtering
  • Infra MonitoringFrom $2.8/host/month
    • Host metrics
    • Container monitoring
    • System performance
  • Service MonitoringFrom $8.64/month
  • TracingFrom $19/month
  • SyntheticsFrom $2/monitor/month
    • API monitoring
    • Uptime monitoring
    • Performance monitoring
  • Synthetics Standard$29/month
  • Synthetics Pro$99/month
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✓
Sematext✓
macOS
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✗
Windows
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✗
Linux
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✗
CLI
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
Self-hosted
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
On-premise
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✗
Hybrid
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✗
Air-gapped
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✗

Integrations

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

In common (3)
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Logstash
  • Kubernetes

Elastic Observability

36 total - 33 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
  • xMatters
  • IBM Resilient
  • +9 more
Independently observed

Sematext

14 total - 11 not shared
  • Syslog
  • Angular
  • Custom Webhooks
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Akka
  • Ember
  • Next.js
  • Elasticsearch
  • Kibana
  • Apache Solr
  • OpenSearch
Independently observed

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