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

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