Compare Elastic Observability vs. Grafana

Leverage the most extensively utilized observability platform, founded on the reliable Elastic Stack (commonly referred to as the ELK Stack), to integrate disparate data sources, providing cohesive visibility and actionable insights. To truly monitor and extract insights from your distributed systems, it is essential to consolidate all your observability data within a single framework. Eliminate data silos by merging application, infrastructure, and user information into a holistic solution that facilitates comprehensive observability and alerting. By integrating limitless telemetry data collection with search-driven problem-solving capabilities, you can achieve superior operational and business outcomes. Unify your data silos by assimilating all telemetry data, including metrics, logs, and traces, from any source into a platform that is open, extensible, and scalable. Enhance the speed of problem resolution through automatic anomaly detection that leverages machine learning and sophisticated data analytics, ensuring you stay ahead in today's fast-paced environment. This integrated approach not only streamlines processes but also empowers teams to make informed decisions swiftly.

Grafana Labs provides an open and composable observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Observability Platforms and positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision, Grafana Labs supports over 25M users and 5,000+ customers. Grafana Cloud delivers the full power of Grafana’s open and composable observability stack—without the overhead of managing infrastructure. As a fully managed SaaS offering from Grafana Labs, it unifies metrics, logs, and traces in one place, giving engineering teams real-time visibility into systems and applications. Built around the LGTM Stack—Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics—Grafana Cloud provides a scalable foundation for modern observability. With built-in integrations for Kubernetes, cloud services, CI/CD pipelines, and OpenTelemetry, Grafana Cloud accelerates time to value while reducing operational complexity. Grafana Cloud also supports OLAP-style analytics through integrations with data warehouses and analytical engines like BigQuery, ClickHouse, and Druid—enabling multi-dimensional exploration across observability and business data. Teams gain access to powerful features like Adaptive Metrics for cost optimization, incident response workflows, and synthetic monitoring for performance testing—all within a secure, globally distributed platform. Whether you’re modernizing infrastructure, scaling observability, or driving SLO-based performance, Grafana Cloud delivers the insights you need—fast, flexible, and vendor-neutral.