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Comparison

Elastic Observability vs Sematext

On the evidence we track, Sematext 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.

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Elastic Observability58
★Sematext65
Score
vioscaleAI score
Elastic Observability58 / 100medium · 53%
Sematext65 / 100low · 49%
Pricing
Free tier
Elastic Observability✗
Sematext✓
Model
Elastic Observabilitycommercial
Sematextfreemium
Price level
Elastic Observabilityunknown
Sematextlow
Starting price
Elastic Observability–
Sematext$5
Transparent
Elastic Observability✗
Sematext✓
Integrations
Count
Elastic Observability450
Sematext100
Security
Gdpr
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext–
Scorecard
Elastic Observability5.6
Sematext–
Trust center
Elastic Observabilityhttps://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance
Sematext–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elastic Observability18,551
Sematext–
Github stars
Elastic Observability78,270
Sematext–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elastic Observability100
Sematext–
Release
History
Elastic Observability20 items
Sematext–
Language
Primary
Elastic ObservabilityJava
Sematext–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Elastic Observability7 items
Sematext6 items

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 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

Sematext

Leader

Comprehensive platform that provides visibility into application and API performance, logs, metrics, and end-user experience. Uses synthetic monitoring and real-time alerting to detect performance degradation and downtime before they impact users.

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

Subscription

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

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

Sematext

Leader
from $5/moHybridFree tier

From $5/month for infrastructure monitoring. Metered pricing for logs and traces based on volume and retention. 14-day free trial available for Status Pages.

  • Infrastructure Monitoring$5/mo
  • Network Map$1.68/host/mo
  • AI Agent Watch$1.68/host/mo
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✓
CLI
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elastic Observability✓
Sematext✓

Integrations

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

In common (6)
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Logstash
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker

Elastic Observability

40 total - 34 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
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • xMatters
  • IBM Resilient
  • Webhook
  • AWS S3
  • +10 more
Independently observed

Sematext

Leader
27 total - 21 not shared
  • Syslog
  • Angular
  • Custom Webhooks
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Akka
  • Ember
  • Next.js
  • Elasticsearch
  • Kibana
  • Apache Solr
  • OpenSearch
  • AWS
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • AWS ECS
  • AlertOps
  • Postman
  • Solr
  • SolrCloud
  • OpsGenie
  • Zapier
  • VictorOps
Independently observed
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Elastic Observability or Sematext: which one depends on you

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