# Elastic Observability vs Sematext

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Sematext

| Attribute | Elastic Observability | Sematext |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 57.8 (53% (medium)) | 65 (49% (low)) |
| 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 managed cloud platform providing monitoring of infrastructure metrics, application performance, logs, traces, and user interactions designed for DevOps teams. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"What is Sematext?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Sematext offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $1.68 per host per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"Is Sematext free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Sematext supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Sematext support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Sematext, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"Can Sematext be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 21 integrations for Sematext, including Syslog, Angular, Custom Webhooks, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Microsoft Teams, Akka and Ember, plus 13 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"What does Sematext integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Sematext is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"Where is Sematext available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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":"both","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":"Syslog"},{"name":"Angular"},{"name":"Custom Webhooks"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"GitLab CI/CD"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Akka"},{"name":"Ember"},{"name":"Next.js"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Kibana"},{"name":"Apache Solr"},{"name":"OpenSearch"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS ECS","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"chat"},{"name":"AlertOps","native":true,"category":"alerting"},{"name":"PagerDuty","native":true,"category":"incident_management"},{"name":"Docker","native":true,"category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"Postman","native":true,"category":"api"},{"name":"Solr","native":true,"category":"search"},{"name":"SolrCloud","native":true,"category":"search"},{"name":"OpsGenie","category":"incident_management"},{"name":"Zapier","category":"automation"},{"name":"VictorOps","category":"incident_management"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | - |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":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":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Infrastructure Monitoring","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Network Map","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"host","amount":1.68,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"AI Agent Watch","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"host","amount":1.68,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false}],"summary":"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.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-04T15:53:45.118Z","startingPrice":{"amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":5,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | Sematext |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:27:18.619Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*