Elastic Observability 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Elastic Observability

4.3

(25)

Pricing

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About Elastic Observability

Elastic Observability is a software that helps businesses build, run and monitor their applications. It helps users understand application's performance and how it works.

It does this by tracking metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, network traffic and other data points about the application's performance.

The software also includes tools for watching the logs of app's processes and sending notifications when something goes wrong or something important happens.

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Elastic Observability Features

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Activity Dashboard
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Customer Database
Data Connectors
Data Import/Export
Data Migration
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Data Synchronization
Data Visualization
Multiple Data Sources
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Activity Tracking
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Dashboard
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Incident Management
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Issue Tracking
IT Monitoring
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Multi-Cloud Management
Performance Analysis
Performance Management
Performance Metrics
Performance Monitoring
Predictive Analytics
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Reporting
Real-Time Updates
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Root Cause Analysis
Search/Filter
Server Monitoring
Single Sign On
SSL Security
Status Tracking
Third-Party Integrations
Transaction Monitoring
Trend Analysis
Troubleshooting
Uptime Reporting
User Management
Virtualization
Visual Analytics
Workflow Management

Elastic Observability User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

36%

60%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.4

Animesh S.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Elastic search’s observability provides a powerful tool for transforming IT processes.

It's a useful tool for troubleshooting the problem. We can also monitor all of the servers from a single location, and the best part is that we can use a watcher to alert us to any issues.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The product is always evolving and producing new tools to ensure that various technologies are monitored and integrated. Furthermore, the open community allows users to find and share solutions for a variety of use cases. Open source code, community support, frequent iterations, and new feature releases are all part of the package. Application call water flow, Drilldown Bundling capabilities with rest of the Elastic Search Stack Open Source providing availability is the best feature of this product.

Cons:

Constant advancements necessitate regular configuration changes/maintenance; however, the documentation's quality helps to mitigate this.

Guillermo B.

Verified reviewer

Information Services

201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2024

Handy boards

It was very useful in our daily operations

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The boards are handy and show all the required information at once

Cons:

The query language is proprietary and difficult to master

Reasons for switching to Elastic Observability

Cost and business relation with elastic providers

samson m.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Review for Elasticsearch

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Elastic Search is easy to install Easy to use as there are loads of documentations present online Easy to scale up when the need arises Uses REST FULL API which is light weight.

Cons:

monitoring of Elastic Search are complex like wise administration Installation of elastic search on windows OS is not straight forward

Verified

Reviewer

Research

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2022

Logstash works great with Elasticsearch and Kibana, making it easy to ingest data and transform it

It is a really good product and does what it intends to do well, as long as you are not intimidated by the terminal and configuration files.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Logstash does a great job of ingesting data, transforming it and then storing in a 'stash' like elasticsearch. It can virtually ingest any data as long as you have the time and patience to set it all up. We use it as part of the process of collecting all logs from a multitude of sources using filebeat (generally application and system logs) on different operating systems, shipping to logstash then transforming and storing that in elasticsearch and having Kibana for dashboards and analysis. It works great for this use case.

Cons:

It can be tricky to set up as it is mostly just a command line tool with configuration files. The recent log4j issues also make you think again about all this log shipping, transformation and ingesting in a different way. If there is similar vulnerabilities in the future, it could end up happening way down in your process in non-public components due to the way logs are shipped and processed down the line.

Filip T.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Essential tool for all my devops needs

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I've been using Elasticsearch since early days, with very different things in mind. I started with simple text search - with some additional tweaks, stemming and other cool features it helped us drive enormous traffic to our website. I can't imaging pulling it off so easily with any other tool. Every day I use it for web server log analytics. Search and great visualizations make it an absolute essential in work my toolset. We also run a lot of algorithm analytics on top of our Elasticsearch cluster. If you're looking for managed options check AWS Elasticsearch Service, or the recently introduced Elastic Cloud.

Cons:

My only concern with Elasticsearch is that it might get expensive to run pretty quickly. But with a certain amount of effort put into optimization it's gonna be worth it.

Verified

Reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2021

Elasticsearch super fast search billion log file in a second

before we use syslog with mysql, when mysql reach space to 500GB we can not search faster, we need to delete. but since we use graylog enterprise and also elastiflow to monitor the real time traffic we save alot of time, we can querry million message in a few second only, and space of data are up to 1TB can still search faster.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

well, i have been using elasticsearch more than 3 years already with the graylog, and also with elastiflow too, its very fast, i can search 20 million message in afews second only. i would say very very powerful. I love the real-time data processing that elastic produce to view the dashboard is so powerful and flexible. I recommend if you are using enterprise log system, please use with elasticsearch save your time.

Cons:

well, it working well already. but it a bit complicate if someone just new to elasticsearch.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Great for indexing a large amount of data

We're ElasticSearch mainly to index large amount of logs from several servers. Its makes it very easy for us to index and search logs. Logstash sends the logs and with Kibana we access to logs and create nice dashboards. But, you have to manage your indexes. For our log an index is created every day which we reindex monthly to a new index, then we do a forcemerge and after that we delete the daily indexes. This keeps the number of shards low. If we don't do this we run into problems because if to many shards. But, you can schedule this via curl and with every new version of Kibana/ElasticSearch you can do more and more via the GUI. For us this is the number one tool to index and search gigabytes of logs on a daily base and we're able to keep months of logs and still be able to search through it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Indexing large amount of data Searching data Very scalable Creating a cluster is very easy Ability to send commands via CURL to the API Creating snapshots of your data

Cons:

Managing indexes can be a bit of a pain Sometimes issues with indexes becoming read only

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2019

Using ELK stack for monitoring and logging

It has been really good. We only have JSON data and we stream it to the elastic search. We can search and index data as we need and it is really bast and performant.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This is the most awesome software stack for data analysis and searching. We stream data to the elastic search and index it so we can search it and analyse what we receive on the fly. It does the job extremely well. On top of that, the software comes as a managed service on cloud providers which means it comes with almost no maintenance overhead.

Cons:

Nothing really comes to mind. The only thing is Json is mandatory data format unlike the Apache Solr which is a competitor.

Chris L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Elasticsearch is wonderful free software. It is fast, scalable and easy to use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Free! API driven Scalable multi-node architecture. Easy to understand JSON Tight integration with logstash and the rest of their stack

Cons:

The steep initial learning curve Their own log format is often difficult to parse Some features are only available in the paid product.

Aditya S.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Searching made easy when you need it the most.

and look for log files and then find the issue. ELK sovles this problem efficiently.During troubleshooting, it is biggest pain to open servers

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

A consolidated UI to search and find the patterns in log file. Speed of search return is also very good. The way this product manages the files at the backend, it does conserve a lot of space considering the amound of data it stores.

Cons:

Search pattern bar could be more user friendly. When the load increases, serach bar is the first to show impact and starts to deviate from an efficient behaviour. Cursor keeps going away during such times making it difficult to tweak the attern.

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