Elastic Observability vs FirstWave opEvents
Elastic Observability
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| Figure | Elastic Observability | FirstWave opEvents |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Alert Management Software | 8.3 (#8) | 7.7 (#18) |
| Founded | 2012 | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands and Mountain View, California, United States | Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia |
| Integrations | Elastic says its Serverless offering includes over 350 integrations, and its infrastructure monitoring overview lists more than 400 out-of-the-box integrations. | The product page names opCharts and says opEvents can create or update ITSM tickets, send email, trigger webhooks, or execute command-line actions. |
| Purpose | Elastic Observability unifies application and infrastructure monitoring by bringing logs, metrics, application traces, user experience data, and other telemetry together for analysis. | opEvents ingests syslog, SNMP traps, and Windows events, then correlates and deduplicates them to surface actionable events. |
| Support | For Serverless, limited support is included with a Standard subscription; the listed Gold, Platinum, and Enterprise support charges are 5%, 10%, and 15% of consumption. | FirstWave’s product page links to Community Wiki support and offers a Book a Demo option. |
Plans
Elastic Observability
- Observability Serverless CompletePrice not published
- Observability Serverless Logs EssentialsPrice not published
In their own words
Elastic Observability
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FirstWave opEvents
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