Elastic Observability vs. Grafana Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Elastic Observability
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Elastic Observability, from Elastic, the makers of Elasticsearch, is a solution that aims to bring logs, metrics, and APM based on the former Opbeat (acquired by Elastic in 2017) traces together at scale in a single stack so users can monitor and react to events happening anywhere in an IT environment. It's free and open to start, and adds the Logs, Metrics, APM (formerly Opbeat), and Uptime modules to the Elastic (ELK) Stack.N/A
Grafana Cloud
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Grafana Cloud is a fully managed Observability Platform designed to aggregate, visualize, and analyze telemetry data across distributed architectures. The platform provides a unified environment for Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Continuous Profiling, utilizing the LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) and Pyroscope stack to provide high-cardinality analysis of system state.
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Pricing
Elastic ObservabilityGrafana Cloud
Editions & Modules
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Grafana Cloud - Pro
$8
per month up to 1 active user
Grafana Cloud - Free
Free
10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
Grafana Cloud - Advanced
Volume Discounts
custom data usage custom active users
Grafana - Enterprise Stack
Custom Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Elastic ObservabilityGrafana Cloud
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Elastic ObservabilityGrafana Cloud
Considered Both Products
Elastic Observability
Chose Elastic Observability
Splunk is a very good product but the licensing costs are high; we utilise the best of both worlds by using both products for slightly different purposes. We put the voluminous data with simple use cases in Elastic where it doesn't cost too much and can be searched quickly …
Grafana Cloud

No answer on this topic

Features
Elastic ObservabilityGrafana Cloud
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Observability
-
Ratings
Grafana Cloud
8.3
7 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.17 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.37 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.47 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Observability
-
Ratings
Grafana Cloud
8.1
6 Ratings
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.16 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.96 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Observability
-
Ratings
Grafana Cloud
8.4
6 Ratings
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.26 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Observability
-
Ratings
Grafana Cloud
8.7
6 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
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User Ratings
Elastic ObservabilityGrafana Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(4 ratings)
9.4
(7 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Elastic ObservabilityGrafana Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Elastic
We can use this Elastic Observability in our business problems such as Creating internal/operational efficiencies issues, customer relations/service, and business process outcomes issues. This product has a lot of features for the above problems. But this product may be having some issues when charting purposes. But it can adjust for that purpose.
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Grafana Labs
Just about any organization with more than one server and more than one cluster as it scales very well. Configuration of the application takes time and finesse to fine tune to where the balance of load time and getting data quickly meets. The plugins add load time but fine tuning for the application to meet demand needs nailed down at implementation
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Pros
Elastic
  • Open source code base
  • Community support
  • Is fast in processing
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Grafana Labs
  • Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc
  • Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please
  • Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs
  • Microservices monitoring
  • Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere
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Cons
Elastic
  • Difficult to setup/maintain
  • Search pattern bar could be more user-friendly
  • Premium subscription features are very expensive
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Grafana Labs
  • There are some settings which we can't configure from UI (Web Console).
  • We've open[ed] up configuration files in command line text editors and manually do the settings e.g. LDAP/SSO configuration.
  • In terms of visualization, it's best, but it doesn't support log analysis otherwise it could destroy business of all other visualization tools.
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Usability
Elastic
No answers on this topic
Grafana Labs
It is infinitely flexible. If you can imagine it, Grafana can almost certainly do it. Usability may be in the eye of the beholder however, as there is time needed to curate the experience and get the dashboards customized to how it makes sense to you. I know one thing they are working on are more templates, based on data sources
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Alternatives Considered
Elastic
Splunk is a very good product but the licensing costs are high; we utilise the best of both worlds by using both products for slightly different purposes. We put the voluminous data with simple use cases in Elastic where it doesn't cost too much and can be searched quickly while putting the less voluminous data with more complex use cases in Splunk so we can take advantage of Splunk's very comprehensive but often much slower SPL search query language
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Grafana Labs
Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
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Return on Investment
Elastic
  • Cost management.
  • Good customer increment.
  • Time management.
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Grafana Labs
  • Grafana has replaced many higher priced tools
  • The integrations are seemless with multiple backends
  • Combining graphs and dashboards from multiple data sources is a game changer
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