Elastic Observability

Vendor
Elastic
Also known as
elastic-observability

Available worldwide · Popular in: US, GB

What is Elastic Observability?

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.

Independently observed

Elastic Observability 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
Quote-basedFree tier14-day trial

Free tier available. Platinum and Enterprise require contacting sales.

Free

Free
Free

Open source Elasticsearch and Kibana stack

  • Elasticsearch
  • Kibana
  • Data ingestion via OTel, Logstash, Beats
  • Native authentication and TLS encryption
  • Basic monitoring
  • APM, logging, metrics
  • Alerting
  • Community support

Platinum

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Advanced security, machine learning, and high availability

  • 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

Enterprise

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Advanced AI, searchable snapshots, and comprehensive orchestration

  • 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

What Elastic Observability does

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

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
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • macOS
  • Web
  • Linux
  • Windows
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Hybrid
  • On-premise
  • Air-gapped
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (36)

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

Security & compliance

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

Elastic Observability FAQ

Common questions about Elastic Observability, answered from independent, dated evidence.

What is Elastic Observability?

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

How much does Elastic Observability cost?

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

What platforms does Elastic Observability support?

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

Can Elastic Observability be self-hosted?

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

What does Elastic Observability integrate with?

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

What security certifications does Elastic Observability have?

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

Where is Elastic Observability available?

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

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Balanced composite 62 / 100
medium · 58%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability500.167.9
Integrations760.086.4
Capabilities960.066.0
Development activity630.095.9
Dependent projects710.064.5
Price level800.043.4
Security score640.042.7
Stars920.032.4
Pricing transparency250.061.6
Release cadence00.050.0-
Security posture50.120.0-
Package downloads00.140.0-
Developer Q&A activity00.060.0-

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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

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
CapabilitiesApm: Yes · Rum: Yes · Logs: Yes · Hosting: both · Metrics: Yes · On call: Yesmediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count450mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryJavahighsource · 2026-09-10 · 90%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
AvailabilityHqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: …highsource · 2026-08-14 · 75%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 70%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%
TransparentNomediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%

Release

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

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
GdprYeshighsource · 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/trade-compliancemediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 60%
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