What is Elastic Observability?
Elastic Observability uses the Elastic platform for logs, metrics, application performance and related operational investigation. It can be deployed through serverless, hosted or self-managed arrangements, with different service responsibilities and feature entitlements.
Who is Elastic Observability for?
Teams building an observability workflow around Elastic data collection, search and analysis.
Elastic Observability features
The core capabilities to consider for your workflow.
- Log search and investigation
- Application performance and tracing
- Infrastructure telemetry and dashboards
- Alerting and digital-experience capabilities by tier
Elastic Observability pricing
Free Basic features; paid tiers and hosting
Compare the deployment model, ingestion, retained data, queries and required feature tier. Include the operator’s infrastructure and support work for self-managed deployments.
Calculate the cost of your quote →Free access & evaluation
Free self-managed Basic capabilities are available. Cloud trials and paid subscriptions are separate; confirm the selected feature and deployment scope.
Before you choose Elastic Observability
Self-managed Basic features do not establish access to every paid capability.
Hosted, serverless and self-managed deployments have different pricing and operating boundaries.
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Elastic Observability FAQs
Does Elastic Observability have a free plan?
Free self-managed Basic capabilities are available. Cloud trials and paid subscriptions are separate; confirm the selected feature and deployment scope.
Who is Elastic Observability for?
Teams building an observability workflow around Elastic data collection, search and analysis.
What should I compare before buying?
Check the tier that contains your essential features, confirm plan limits and compare the total quote with your own expected usage.