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Freemium

A free edition or tier is available. Additional features or hosted services require…

 Freemium

Components can be downloaded for free; hosted service and advanced features are paid.

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • Supports self-hosted observability workflows
  • Provides searchable collected telemetry
  • Long-established standard for central log analytics
  • Ingests data from many sources and formats
  • Hosted services and enterprise features have separate pricing.
  • Several separate services to deploy and maintain
  • Some features are only available from Elastic's paid offerings
Self-hosted 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

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked September 23, 2026

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