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Elastic Stack vs Grafana: catalog facts
Elastic Stack	Grafana
Freemium Components can be downloaded for free; hosted service and advanced features are paid.	Free Grafana OSS is free and open source. Grafana Cloud and Enterprise are paid.
Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
Long-established standard for central log analytics Ingests data from many sources and formats	One dashboard can mix data from many different back ends Large library of ready-made community dashboards
Several separate services to deploy and maintain Some features are only available from Elastic's paid offerings	Enterprise data sources, reporting and role-based access are paid features Alerting has changed shape between major versions, so older guides mislead
Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted, Web application
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: AGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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