# Elastic Observability vs Grafana

| Attribute | Elastic Observability | Grafana |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 62.4 (60% (medium)) | 63.8 (75% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 18,551 | 1,048 |
| adoption.github_stars | 77,862 | 76,431 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 100,948 |
| adoption.stackoverflow_questions | - | 14,000 |
| content.faq | - | `[{"answer":"Grafana is an open-source observability and visualization platform that enables teams to monitor, visualize, and explore metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from various data sources. It is widely used for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, and real-time dashboarding across DevOps and engineering teams.","source":"https://grafana.com/grafana/","question":"What is Grafana and what is it used for?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Yes, Grafana is open source and distributed under the AGPL-3.0 license, with some components available under Apache 2.0 exceptions. The source code is publicly available on GitHub and can be freely downloaded, modified, and deployed in self-hosted environments.","source":"https://github.com/grafana/grafana","question":"Is Grafana open source and what license does it use?","confidence":0.98},{"answer":"Grafana supports integration with a wide range of data sources including time-series databases like Prometheus and CloudWatch, logging platforms like Loki and Elasticsearch, relational and NoSQL databases, and hundreds of third-party tools through its extensible plugin ecosystem. This allows users to consolidate data from multiple systems into unified dashboards without migrating data.","source":"https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/","question":"What data sources can Grafana integrate with?","confidence":0.96},{"answer":"Grafana offers a tiered pricing model consisting of a free tier with no credit card required, a Pro tier with a base monthly platform fee plus usage-based charges, and an Enterprise tier with custom pricing starting at a minimum annual commitment. The pricing is based on resource consumption such as active series, data volume, and host hours depending on the service used.","source":"https://grafana.com/pricing/","question":"What is Grafana's pricing model?","confidence":0.94},{"answer":"Grafana offers both deployment options: Grafana Cloud is a managed cloud service, while Grafana also provides self-managed options that organizations can deploy and maintain on their own infrastructure. This flexibility allows teams to choose deployment models based on their infrastructure preferences and compliance requirements.","source":"https://grafana.com/oss/grafana/","question":"Can Grafana be self-hosted or is it cloud-only?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Grafana OSS provides core monitoring and visualization capabilities suitable for individuals and smaller teams. Grafana Enterprise adds advanced features such as team-based access management with automatic permission mapping, granular data source-level permissions, and premium support, making it designed for larger organizations with complex access control requirements.","source":"https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/introduction/","question":"What are the main differences between Grafana OSS and Grafana Enterprise?","confidence":0.93},{"answer":"Grafana includes extensive visualization options such as time-series graphs, heatmaps, histograms, tables, gauges, geomaps, and custom panels through plugins. It also supports data transformations allowing users to rename, summarize, combine, and perform calculations across queries, along with features like annotations for event markup and centralized alerting.","source":"https://grafana.com/grafana/","question":"What dashboarding and visualization capabilities does Grafana provide?","confidence":0.94}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | A full-stack observability platform that ingests telemetry data from multiple sources and provides dashboards, alerting, incident management, and AI-assisted troubleshooting. Supports open standards including OpenTelemetry and can be deployed as a cloud service or self-hosted. |
| 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 | 7 |
| 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":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Loki"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"InfluxDB"},{"name":"Postgres"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"AWS"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | TypeScript |
| license.spdx | - | AGPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"quote","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free and open source","features":["Elasticsearch","Kibana","Data ingestion via OTel, Logstash, Beats","Native authentication and TLS encryption","Basic monitoring","APM, logging, metrics","Alerting","Community support"],"description":"Open source Elasticsearch and Kibana stack","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Platinum","summary":"Contact sales","features":["Everything in Free","Single sign-on (SSO), LDAP/Active Directory","Field/document-level security","Audit logging","Anomaly detection for logs/metrics","ELSER semantic search","Cross-cluster replication","Automated threat discovery with ML","Behavioral ransomware protection","Log categorization","Service maps","Tail-based sampling","Service Level Objectives","APM correlations","24/7/365 premium support"],"description":"Advanced security, machine learning, and high availability","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Contact sales","features":["Everything in Platinum","Searchable snapshots on S3","Attack Discovery (GenAI security)","Universal Profiling","Cross-cluster search","Elastic Agent Builder for RAG","Jina AI models for semantic search","Inference Service Management","Hybrid search and RAG","Semantic reranking","Learn-to-Rank personalization","DiskBBQ for vector optimization","Elastic Workflows","Endpoint response actions","Elastic AI Assistant for Observability","AI-assisted log parsing","Reduced storage for logs/metrics/traces","Central as-code configuration"],"description":"Advanced AI, searchable snapshots, and comprehensive orchestration","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier available. Platinum and Enterprise require contacting sales.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T11:09:40.919Z","freeTrialDays":14}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Always free, no credit card required","features":["All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage","Community support","14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and k6 performance tests"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Always free tier with access to all Grafana Cloud services at limited usage.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"logs_ingested":"50 GB/month","retention_logs":"14 days","retention_metrics":"14 days","metrics_active_series":"10k/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"From $19/month + usage with automatic volume discounts","features":["Everything in Free plan","Pay as you go above free tier with volume discounts","8×5 email support","13 months retention for metrics; 30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, k6 performance tests","Adaptive Logs and Metrics cost optimization"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":19,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"series"},"kind":"metered","amount":6.5,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.05,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Self-serve plan with pay-as-you-go usage billing and volume discounts.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"logs_ingested":"50 GB/month","retention_logs":"30 days","retention_metrics":"13 months","metrics_active_series":"10k/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Starts at $25,000/year spend commit. Custom pricing and deployment options.","features":["Premium support","Custom retention policies","Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)","As low as $3 per 1k series for metrics at scale","Custom pricing based on annual commit and volume"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25000,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Full-service offering with custom terms, premium support, and deployment flexibility.","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free forever tier always available. Pro plans from $19/month + usage with volume discounts. Enterprise from $25,000/year with custom terms.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-05T13:24:07.448Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.05,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | no | no |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.fedramp | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.9 | 6.8 |
| 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":1,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=%40grafana%2Fdata&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"MODERATE"}` |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Elastic Observability | Grafana |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:40:43.220Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*