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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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

Mo F.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes for best scalability

Organizing chat data to be searchable and log management to proactively fix issues.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

One of the best features I like is that Elastic built their own kubernetes operator to extend the k8s orchestration and make it easy to deploy, scale, change, secure and configure hot-warm infrastructures. Their operator saves a ton of time during configuration. I have deployed stacks on different k8s architectures like Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service and small on prem clusters with microk8s without issues. When we reach performance thresholds we add more elastic nodes and ECK secures and joins it to the cluster and in minutes we can leverage the extra compute. A lot of changes that are done after going to PROD are non-disruptive since ECK is aware of the main node and makes sure to pass the master role before the main one is re-deployed. I have also migrated Elastic Cloud Enterprise deployments running on bare metal and the stability of ECK is unmatched.

Cons:

Currently it is not recommended or supported for a PROD cluster to do its own self monitoring so you have to deploy a monitoring cluster. In cloud scenarios this adds costs and extra complexity so it will be great to have this feature supported.

Phuc N.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2025

ELK - a good, free start for small team and not so many integrations required

Given what the open source version offer, I am happy and definitely recommend it for SME and small project. But when it comes to bigger company with lots of customization and integration, it might become challenging

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It has open source version so that anyone can start using without worrying about cost. It is also widely used, so once you are familiar with ELK, you are likely to have a good fundamental knowledge of how monitoring, logging... works

Cons:

To a certain extent, it gets complicated when it comes to set up, scale and manage infrastructure. Also, out of the box integration with popular tools are not as great as other alternatives.

Reasons for choosing Elastic Stack

We can use the open source version and it is free. For a start up, that is an important criterion for us.

Victor Luis G.

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

This powerful tool allows you to take data from any source and format to search and analyze.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

It is a super fast and efficient data extraction tool. Recommended for medium-sized projects. Handles large amounts of data, is scalable.

Cons:

Usable from any device, however these must be state-of-the-art and offer great calculation speeds and ram storage.

Vinicius L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

Fantastic Search Tool for logging

It's been a great experience, I was able to leverage it to extract useful information from an extensive mass of data.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's a fantastic tool for searching on the application tools.

Cons:

It's documentation could be a little bit more detailed in terms of examples.

Reasons for switching to Elastic Stack

Splunk wasn't too good for searching and filtering.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

A very good stack to store and visualize data.

Overall I am happy with my decision to choose Elastic Stack. It is completely fulfilling my requirements without any issues.Kibana works very well even with a lot of data.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I mostly like the Elastic Search queries. Those follow a certain standard and work very well. Data retrieval is very easy and fast in Elastic Search.Visualizing data thru Kibana is very smooth and straightforward. It supports a couple of inbuilt dashboards to represent the data nicely.

Cons:

Nothing to dislike about Elastic Stack. The only thing is configuration and setup should be correct. It could take some time for beginners.

Reasons for switching to Elastic Stack

Searching was complex in Datadog in comparison to Elastic Stack. Elastic Stack provides more features than Datadog.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Elastic Stack - A Complete Package for Big Data Visualizations and Fast Data Query!

Elastic Stack is a powerful platform which allows you to quickly search and query on the data even if the data is in huge volume, thanks to its distributed computing and storage. it has enabled me to develop an application which fetches results from TBs of data in seconds.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

1.Allows Faster searching and query operations 2.Provides with easy data visualization for analysis 3.Support for multiple data sources 4.Good SDK support for quick integration with application 5.Scalable as per the requirement with support of kubernetes

Cons:

1.UI is simple ,could be made more robust and dynamic 2.Calculations and processing speed can be further improved 3.Proper usage knowledge is required when using it on scalable platforms

Reasons for switching to Elastic Stack

Apart from data visualization capability Elastic Stack comes with seach and query functionality

Animesh S.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Best for Website Monitoring, Event Management and Log Analysis.

This lightweight, yet powerful, modern SIEM is well-suited for the modern security operations center as it can handle a wide range of activities with ease. elastic Stack is a powerful and flexible SIEM with feature-rich out-of-the-box tools that make it easy to get the job.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We are using ELK Stack SIEM, a scalable aggregation engine that helps us find patterns in our data as well as provides a wide array of customizable analytics and reports. With Elastic Stack, we have a better understanding of flaws and security issues, particularly memory tier support that ensures the security of our data and networks.

Cons:

It is very challenging and time-consuming to upgrade cluster node roles and data replication.

Gedson S.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

The perfect searching allied to a RDB

We've been pairing Elasticsearch with a traditional RDB in many projects with great results. This way we don't compromise our data reliability and searching speed is blazing fast.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Searching is where elasticsearch is second to none, either in terms, n-grams or full-text. Latest releases have greatly improved the aggregation performance, so it's also a great fit for analytics workloads. The customizable sharding and replica configurations make is very reliable too.

Cons:

Searching and joining different documents has room for improvement, it's usualy not as fast as we would like it to be, so most of the times we end up un-normalizing documents and en-richening their data to boost searching performance.