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Elastic N.V.
Also known as
elastic-elk-stack

Available worldwide · Popular in: US, GB

What is Elastic (ELK Stack)?

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.

Independently observed

Elastic (ELK Stack) 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.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $99/moSubscriptionFree tier14-day trial

From $99/month. Subscription model with free 14-day trial. Usage-based pricing for cloud resources (120 GB storage / 2 zones baseline).

Standard

From $99/month. Free 14-day trial.
monthly

Foundation plan with Elasticsearch datastore, integrations, monitoring, security basics, and observability.

  • 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)

Gold

From $114/month. Includes reporting and third-party integrations.
monthly

Standard plan plus reporting, advanced alerting, third-party actions, enterprise search, and business hours support.

  • Everything in Standard
  • Reporting
  • Third-party alerting actions
  • Watcher
  • Enterprise Search
  • Advanced workflows
  • Base support (business hours, phone/web, 6 contacts)

Platinum

From $131/month. ML and advanced security included.
monthly

Gold plan plus advanced security, machine learning, cross-cluster replication, and 24/7 support with 1-hour urgent response.

  • 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

Enterprise

From $184/month. Full AI suite and advanced automation.
monthly

Platinum plan plus advanced AI features, searchable snapshots, GPU inference, workflow automation, SAML SSO, and premium 30-minute support.

  • 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

Add-ons

  • Synthetic Monitoring$0.01 per test_run + $28/mo

What Elastic (ELK Stack) does

The capabilities that matter for log management software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Core
Pipeline role
End-to-end platform
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
-
Query language
ES|QL (with native PromQL support)
Deployment
Hosting
Cloud + self-hosted
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (32)

Independently observed
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Jina AI
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Microsoft Azure AI
  • Mistral
  • Cohere
  • Hugging Face
  • NVIDIA
  • IBM watsonx
  • LlamaIndex
  • LangChain
  • Vectorize.io
  • Slack
  • Jira
  • PagerDuty
  • ServiceNow
  • Microsoft Teams
  • xMatters
  • IBM Resilient
  • Filebeat
  • Metricbeat
  • Heartbeat
  • Elastic Agent
  • Logstash
  • Osquery
  • AWS S3
  • Red Hat
  • Unstructured.io
  • Aryn
  • Alibaba Cloud

Security & compliance

Known vulnerabilities: 45 (2 in the last 12 months), max severity HIGH sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality

Elastic (ELK Stack) FAQ

Common questions about Elastic (ELK Stack), answered from independent, dated evidence.

What is Elastic (ELK Stack)?

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. It is indexed under Log Management Software.

Source: https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted

Is Elastic (ELK Stack) free?

Elastic (ELK Stack) offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $99 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://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted

What platforms does Elastic (ELK Stack) support?

Elastic (ELK Stack) supports the web 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/cloud-hosted

Can Elastic (ELK Stack) be self-hosted?

Yes. Elastic (ELK Stack) can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.

Source: https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted

What does Elastic (ELK Stack) integrate with?

We have confirmed 31 integrations for Elastic (ELK Stack), including OpenAI, Anthropic, Jina AI, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, Mistral and Cohere, plus 23 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/cloud-hosted

What security certifications does Elastic (ELK Stack) have?

We have independently confirmed ISO 27001 and GDPR for Elastic (ELK Stack). Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elastic (ELK Stack) not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.

Source: https://www.elastic.co/trust/faq

Where is Elastic (ELK Stack) available?

Elastic (ELK Stack) 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/cloud-hosted

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Balanced composite 67 / 100
medium · 67%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability980.1615.3✓
Pricing transparency1000.066.3✓
Development activity630.095.9✓
Capabilities810.065.1✓
Dependent projects710.064.5✓
Security posture350.124.0✓
Integrations450.083.8✓
Security score640.042.7✓
Stars920.032.4✓
Price level250.041.1✓
Release cadence00.050.0-
Package downloads00.140.0-
Developer Q&A activity00.060.0-

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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

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d100mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars77,901highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90%
Dependent repos18,551highsource · 2026-08-26 · 85%

Content

AttributeValueEvidence
Faq7 itemsmediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
CapabilitiesHosting: both · Alerting: Yes · Log role: platform · Live tail: Yes · Dashboards: Yes · Query language: ES|QL (with native PromQL support)mediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count35mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryJavahighsource · 2026-09-10 · 90%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
AvailabilityHqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: …highsource · 2026-09-14 · 75%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 70%
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%
Price levelhighmediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
History20 itemsmediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 70%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
Sla pct99.95mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-08-05 · 75%
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%
Iso27001Yeshighsource · 2026-08-14 · 75%
Scorecard6.4highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90%
VulnerabilitiesCount: 45 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 2 · Max severity: HIGHhighsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%
Trust centerhttps://www.elastic.co/legal/ethics-and-compliancemediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 60%
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