# Elastic (ELK Stack) vs OpenObserve

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Elastic (ELK Stack)

| Attribute | Elastic (ELK Stack) | OpenObserve |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 68.4 (68% (medium)) | 60.8 (72% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 18,551 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 77,862 | 21,485 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 187 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud-based observability and search platform that ingests logs from multiple sources, automatically structures them with AI, and enables full-text search, alerting, dashboards, and machine learning analysis on unstructured data. | A cost-effective, full-stack observability solution that ingests and monitors logs, traces, metrics, and real-user monitoring data with native OpenTelemetry support. Available as a managed cloud service or self-hosted open-source deployment, using compression and columnar storage to dramatically reduce infrastructure costs. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"log_role":"platform","live_tail":true,"dashboards":true,"query_language":"ES|QL (with native PromQL support)","full_text_search":true,"retention_tiering":true,"structured_parsing":true,"object_store_backed":false}` | `{"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"log_role":"backend","dashboards":true,"otel_support":"native","query_language":"SQL, PromQL, VRL","full_text_search":true,"retention_tiering":true,"structured_parsing":true,"object_store_backed":true}` |
| integrations.count | 35 | 9 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Jina AI"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Google Vertex AI"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure AI"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"IBM watsonx"},{"name":"LlamaIndex"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"Vectorize.io"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"Filebeat"},{"name":"Metricbeat"},{"name":"Heartbeat"},{"name":"Elastic Agent"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Osquery"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"Red Hat"},{"name":"Unstructured.io"},{"name":"Aryn"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"SQL"},{"name":"PromQL"},{"name":"Apache Parquet"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage"},{"name":"MinIO"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | TypeScript |
| license.spdx | - | AGPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"From $99/month. Free 14-day trial.","features":["Distributed Elasticsearch Platform on AWS, Azure, GCP","Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL)","AutoOps monitoring","Hundreds of out-of-the-box integrations","Discover, dashboards, alerting","Security: detection engine, centralized agent management","Observability: APM, logging, metrics apps","Synthetic monitoring","Limited web support (2 contacts, 3-business day response)"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Foundation plan with Elasticsearch datastore, integrations, monitoring, security basics, and observability.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Gold","summary":"From $114/month. Includes reporting and third-party integrations.","features":["Everything in Standard","Reporting","Third-party alerting actions","Watcher","Enterprise Search","Advanced workflows","Base support (business hours, phone/web, 6 contacts)"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":114,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Standard plan plus reporting, advanced alerting, third-party actions, enterprise search, and business hours support.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Platinum","summary":"From $131/month. ML and advanced security included.","features":["Everything in Gold","Advanced security features","Machine learning: anomaly detection, supervised learning","Cross-cluster replication","Semantic and vector search with ML models (ELSER, e5)","AI-assisted pipelines with Streams","Log categorization, service maps","Service Level Objectives","24/7/365 support (1-hour urgent response, 8 contacts)","99.95% monthly uptime SLA"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":131,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Gold plan plus advanced security, machine learning, cross-cluster replication, and 24/7 support with 1-hour urgent response.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"From $184/month. Full AI suite and advanced automation.","features":["Everything in Platinum","Searchable snapshots in cold/frozen tiers","Elastic Maps Server","Cross-cluster search and ES|QL Data Federation","GPU inference with Elastic Inference Service","Elastic Agent Builder powered by LLM","AI-assisted dashboard creation","Elastic Workflows (automation)","SAML SSO","Inference Service management","Hybrid search and RAG","Semantic reranking","Attack Discovery (agentic investigation)","Premium support (30-minute urgent response, 8 contacts)","99.95% monthly uptime SLA"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":184,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Platinum plan plus advanced AI features, searchable snapshots, GPU inference, workflow automation, SAML SSO, and premium 30-minute support.","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"test_run"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0123,"currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":28,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $99/month. Subscription model with free 14-day trial. Usage-based pricing for cloud resources (120 GB storage / 2 zones baseline).","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T11:07:35.066Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Cloud","summary":"$0.50/GB ingestion, $0.01/GB query scan","features":["Full-stack observability","Logs, metrics, traces, RUM","SQL and PromQL query support","Retention included","Multi-tenancy","High availability clustering"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.5,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Fully managed cloud observability","contactSales":false},{"free":true,"name":"Self-Hosted Open Source","summary":"Free and open source","features":["Unlimited ingestion","OpenTelemetry native","Full platform access","Community support"],"description":"Community edition under AGPL-3.0 license","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Self-Hosted Enterprise","summary":"Contact sales for pricing","features":["SSO with custom auth providers","Role-based access control","Higher performance","Commercial support"],"description":"Enterprise edition with commercial features and support","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free open-source tier; cloud at $0.50/GB ingestion with flat-rate model (no per-host, per-pod, or per-session meters).","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://openobserve.ai/dynatrace_pricing_comparison/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:01:31.048Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.01,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | high | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 4 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.95 | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 6.9 | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| 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"}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fopenobserve%2Fopenobserve&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Log Management Software)

| Capability | Elastic (ELK Stack) | OpenObserve |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Pipeline role | End-to-end platform | Backend |
| **Search** |  |  |
| Full-text log search | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live tail / stream | ✓ | - |
| **Processing** |  |  |
| Structured parsing | ✓ | ✓ |
| PII redaction at ingest | - | - |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Log-based alerting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dashboards / visualisation | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Retention tiering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Object-store columnar backend | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Interop** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry logs | - | Native |
| Query language | ES|QL (with native PromQL support) | SQL, PromQL, VRL |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:32:52.312Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*