Elastic Stack 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Elastic Stack

4.6

(70)

Pricing

Starting at $16.00 per month

About Elastic Stack

Built on a foundation of free and open, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats pave the way for diverse use cases that start with logging and span as far as your imagination takes you. Elastic features like machine learning, security, and reporting compound that value — and since they’re made for Elastic, you'll only find them from us.

Reliably and securely take data from any source, in any format, then search, analyze, and visualize it in real time.

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Elastic Stack Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $16.00 per month

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Free Version

Basic

$16.00

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Elastic Stack Features

Popular features found in Data Preparation
AI/Machine Learning
Big Data Analytics
Data Extraction
Data Integration
Data Mapping
Reporting/Analytics
More features of Elastic Stack
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Escalation
Alerts/Notifications
Analytics
API
Application Management
Application Security
Audit Management
Augmented Analytics
Authentication
Auto Extraction
Content Management
Customizable Dashboard
Customizable Reports
Dashboard
Data Aggregation
Data Aggregation and Publishing
Data Analysis Tools
Data Cleansing
Data Connectors
Data Discovery
Data Import/Export
Data Management
Data Storage Management
Data Visualization
Diagnostic Tools
Document Storage
Event Logs
File Management
File Transfer
Forecasting
For Websites
Full Text Search
High Volume Processing
Incident Management
Indexing
KPI Monitoring
Log Analysis
Log Collection
Machine Learning
Monitoring
Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Search
No-Code
Performance Metrics
Predictive Analytics
Real-Time Monitoring
Relational Display
Role-Based Permissions
Search/Filter
Single Page View
Single Sign On
Templates
Third-Party Integrations
Two-Factor Authentication
User Management
Visualization

Elastic Stack Integrations

PagerDuty

Slack

Elastic Stack User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

64%

33%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.1

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

3.9

Functionality

4.6

Chirag S.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

ElasticSearch - Modern NoSql datanbase

We are building a new and next generation product and we are using elastic in all search or autocomplete area of the application. Its really fast and powerful tool.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

ElasticSearch is one of the most popular and fastest growing NoSql data store. one of the best feature we are using is to search and return data quickly. Schema less is making its most powerful features and base of this entire product.

Cons:

Only cons we are facing right now is its major version Upgrades and breaking change.

Damon D.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Excellent Tool When Used Correctly

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Elasticsearch simplifies data queries and integration with user interfaces. Describing the records as JSON makes updates as simple as modifying your JSON format. The query builders make selecting complex data relationships easy to construct.

Cons:

As designed and by default, Elastcsearch does not immediately synchronize data between server nodes. Updates and inserts to records take time to reconcile which can cause some data integrity issues with frequent updates. ES is not the best tool to take bulk or rapid changes to the data. It is a great tool for retrieving data. The best combination is to use a SQL database for CRUD operations and replicate/synchronize the data to Elasticsearch for user interface/reporting.

Osman D.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

ElasticSearch_02-07-2022

I use it log search.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is good to store and monitor logs with Kibana.

Cons:

The elasticsearch version management is bad because next version could have critical changes from previous.

Wechuli P.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2020

Quality Search and Analytics Software

Elasticsearch has been a powerful search engine that caters to most of my search and analytics use cases.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Powerful and fast, near-real-time search capabilities that can handle massive amounts of data with a breeze. - Free, you can download the software and use it on your own infrastructure without any license concerns - Ability to enhance search speed and storage capacity by building clusters that store part of the data. Configuring of clusters is fairly straightforward and easy to do. - Machine learning capabilities - API clients available for popular programming languages such as PHP, Python, JavaScript, Java , GO and C#. - Convenient cloud offering that makes the deployment, security and configuration of an ES cluster super easy. - Free Kibana client to visualize data in ElasticSearch

Cons:

- A bit of a learning curve to get up to speed with the query language - There are some nuances and security pitfalls that you might run into if you try to configure an ElasticSearch cluster yourself.

Gabriel M. M.

Verified reviewer

Internet

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Significant upgrade to our search capabilities

We refactored our search engine and used ElasticSearch as a back-end.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The flexibility, it's free, large community and plenty of tools

Cons:

You have to use 3rd party tools in order to make the best of it (management mainly). It's JAVA, so GC could be an issue.

Dewmi R.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

One of the best data indexing software to look for

Very positive experience. Easy to learn and use. Highly recommended.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I have used Elasticsearch for one of the research projects - Visual Search and Autonomous Linkage Tool which would enable Autonomous Data Processing and to improve Big Data Analysis and Reporting, in my previous work place. It served the best in driving the product to it's success with it's great capability and accuracy of indexing data.

Cons:

No much negative experience to highlight but sometimes have to deep dive into documentation to learn about more features and their functionality.

Gilad F.

Verified reviewer

Internet

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Best out there, hard to master.

I'd definitely recommend to anyone. Just take your time to study it carefully as its powerful tools requires mastering.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

* It's free * Very powerful tools - can do almost anything with a single query * Works on any data

Cons:

There is quite a bit of a learning curve. Syntax could really mess the intentions up. There is a difference between 'filter' and 'filters', 'term' and 'terms' filters and that's the beginning. Even basic tasks like searching if a field exists are not as straightforward as key and value. Queries could be very long and not very declarative.

Danilo N.

Verified reviewer

Internet

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

A great option for in-memory database

A great option for an in-memory database. The documentation is very complete and concise.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

A great option for an in-memory database. The documentation is very complete and concise, making even some hard topics very easy to work with. It has SaaS/PaaS options if you have to migrate or don't want to grow up your development team.

Cons:

Sometimes the documentation is a little bit confusing, because they give you every version option, and you have to look carefully to not read other versions syntax and DSL.

Thamara D.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used other for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Perfect way to have search engine.

When considering the Elasticsearch platform, it a most efficient and effective platform which we have ever used to have powerful search engine.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Elasticsearch is a open source platform which we can use for multiple kind of projects.We have used the platform to have centralized log managing ability and as a replacement of our OLAP databases.We can have in-detailed analytics with the aid of Elasticsearch platform. Also, we can have highly performed powerful search engine with fast indexing ability.

Cons:

It would be great if we have more detailed documentations and learning materials to learn this kind of valuable technology.

Reasons for choosing Elastic Stack

We can have accurate analytics and easy to work if we have go through the learning materials carefully.

Ajay c.

Verified reviewer

Insurance

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Best Solution To Monitor Application Logs

Great features and functions have helped me a lot.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Managing application logs have become very easy with the help of Logstash, Elastic, and Kibana (ELK) since we can use the dashboard to visualize the performance and spot errors and performance issues. This has made my business move more faster and agile.

Cons:

The cost may not be suitable for very small-scale companies but otherwise, I would say all the features are amazing.

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