--- description: Review of Elastic Observability Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Elastic Observability | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice AU --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Network Troubleshooting Software](/directory/4786/network-troubleshooting-software/software) > [Elastic Observability](/software/351847/logstash) # Elastic Observability Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/351847/logstash Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/351847/logstash?page=2) > 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. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 25 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 25 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Elastic - **Location**: Mountain View, US - **Founded**: 2012 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing Details**: Please contact Elastic for pricing details. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - AI/Machine Learning - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Activity Tracking - Alerts/Notifications - Analytics - Anomaly Detection - Application Security - Bottleneck Identification - Capacity Analytics - Charting - Container Monitoring - Customizable Reports - Dashboard - Dashboard Creation - Data Aggregation - Data Import/Export - Data Visualization - Database Monitoring ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Network Troubleshooting Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4786/network-troubleshooting-software/software) ## Related Categories - [Network Troubleshooting Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4786/network-troubleshooting-software/software) - [Data Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4230/data-management/software) - [Observability Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4534/observability/software) - [Cloud Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4676/cloud-management/software) - [Data Centre Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4179/data-center-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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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. > > 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. ----- ### "Handy boards" — 5.0/5 > **Guillermo** | *23 August 2024* | Information Services | Recommendation rating: 4.0/10 > > **Pros**: The boards are handy and show all the required information at once > > **Cons**: The query language is proprietary and difficult to master > > It was very useful in our daily operations ----- ### "Review for Elasticsearch" — 3.0/5 > **samson** | *24 April 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **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 ----- ### "Logstash works great with Elasticsearch and Kibana, making it easy to ingest data and transform it" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *4 January 2022* | Research | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "Essential tool for all my devops needs" — 5.0/5 > **Filip** | *5 September 2018* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **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. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/351847/logstash?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/351847/logstash) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data