Available worldwide
What is Elastic APM?
Application performance monitoring solution built on OpenTelemetry that automatically instruments applications, visualizes service dependencies, and identifies performance issues through distributed tracing and root cause analysis.
Elastic APM pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free open source self-managed. Platinum and Enterprise tiers available via contact sales. 14-day free trial for Elastic Cloud.
Open Source
FreeFree, self-managed Elasticsearch Stack including core APM, logging, and security features
- Elasticsearch search engine and vector database
- Kibana visualization and analytics interface
- Data ingestion with OTel, Logstash, and Beats
- Basic authentication and RBAC
- TLS encryption
- APM, logging, and metrics
- Community support and documentation
Platinum
Contact salesAdvanced security, machine learning anomaly detection, and high availability features
- SSO, LDAP/Active Directory, field/document-level security
- Automated anomaly detection for logs and metrics
- ELSER semantic search models
- Cross-cluster replication for high availability
- Service maps from APM data
- Tail-based trace sampling
- Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- APM root cause correlation
- Premium support (24/7/365)
Enterprise
Contact salesFull-stack capabilities including searchable snapshots, AI-assisted investigation, universal profiling, and advanced orchestration
- Searchable snapshots for long-term low-cost storage
- Attack Discovery automated alert triage
- Universal Profiling for code-level performance data
- Cross-cluster search with advanced security
- Elastic Agent Builder for RAG and search development
- Jina AI models for semantic search and reranking
- Inference Service Management for third-party LLMs
- Hybrid search capabilities
- Elastic Workflows for incident response automation
- AI Assistant for Observability guidance
- Endpoint detection and response actions
What Elastic APM does
The capabilities that matter for apm tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Auto-instrumentation
- ✓
- Distributed tracing
- ✓
- Service map
- ✓
- Code / continuous profiling
- ✓
- Database monitoring
- -
- Error analytics
- ✓
- Real-user monitoring
- -
- SLO / error-budget tracking
- ✓
- Anomaly / root-cause AI
- ✓
- OpenTelemetry support
- OTel-native
- Language agents
- Java, .NET, Python, Node.js, PHP, iOS, Android
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
- Air-gapped
- Self-hosted
Integrations (29)
Independently observed- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Jina AI
- Amazon Bedrock
- Aryn
- LlamaIndex
- Red Hat
- Microsoft Azure AI
- Hugging Face
- Mistral
- Cohere
- Google Vertex AI
- NVIDIA
- Alibaba Cloud
- IBM watsonx
- Unstructured.io
- LangChain
- Apache Spark
- Apache Hive
- Slack
- Jira
- ServiceNow
- PagerDuty
- Microsoft Teams
- IBM Resilient
- xMatters
- Tableau
- Elasticsearch-Hadoop
- Vectorize.io•
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Elastic APM FAQ
Common questions about Elastic APM, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Elastic APM?
Application performance monitoring solution built on OpenTelemetry that automatically instruments applications, visualizes service dependencies, and identifies performance issues through distributed tracing and root cause analysis. It is indexed under APM Tools.
How much does Elastic APM cost?
Elastic APM does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 3 plans (Open Source, 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.
What platforms does Elastic APM support?
Elastic APM supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can Elastic APM be self-hosted?
Yes. Elastic APM can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
What does Elastic APM integrate with?
We have confirmed 28 integrations for Elastic APM, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Jina AI, Amazon Bedrock, Aryn, LlamaIndex, Red Hat and Microsoft Azure AI, plus 20 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Where is Elastic APM available?
Elastic APM is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.
Elastic APM alternatives
Other apm tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- BlackfireWeb crawling, testing, and data extraction toolmedium · 70%
- PyroscopeCloud platform combining infrastructure monitoring with cost and AI usage analyticsmedium · 63%
- Datadog APMMonitor and troubleshoot cloud applications by unifying traces, logs, metrics, and user telemetry.low · 48%
- Azure Application InsightsEnd-to-end visibility into applications, infrastructure, and network systemslow · 41%
- DynatraceAI-powered platform for monitoring applications and infrastructure in real-timelow · 40%
- InstanaAutomatic observability with AI-powered root cause analysislow · 40%
Compare Elastic APM
Side by side against other apm tools, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Elastic APM, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 87 | 0.06 | 5.5 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 50 | 0.09 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 42 | 0.08 | 3.5 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Security score | 69 | 0.04 | 2.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.06 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Stars | 59 | 0.03 | 1.5 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 14 | 0.06 | 0.9 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.12 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 39 | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 63% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Hosting: both · Languages: Java, .NET, Python, Node.js, PHP, iOS, Android · Service map: Yes · Otel support: native · Slo tracking: Yes · Code profiling: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 28 | mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-14 · 75% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| History | 20 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 70% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Scorecard | 6.9 | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90% |
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Felastic%2Fapm-server%2Fapprovaltest&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90% |
| Trust center | https://www.elastic.co/legal/ethics-and-compliance | mediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 60% |
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