Elastic Observability vs OpenNMS
Elastic Observability
elastic.coOpenNMS
opennms.comSide by side
| Figure | Elastic Observability | OpenNMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $500/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 6 |
| Spec score · Alert Management Software | 8.3 (#8) | 8.3 (#10) |
| Founded | 2012 | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands and Mountain View, California, United States | Lewisville, Texas, United States |
| 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 FAQ lists email, Slack, Mattermost, custom scripts or webhooks, Jira, Remedy, TSRM, Grafana, and a REST API among integrations. |
| Purpose | Elastic Observability unifies application and infrastructure monitoring by bringing logs, metrics, application traces, user experience data, and other telemetry together for analysis. | OpenNMS is an open-source network monitoring platform for fault, performance, traffic monitoring, and alarm generation across local and distributed networks. |
| 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. | Meridian subscriptions include support options and severity-based SLAs; the listed standard coverage is 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, with 24/7 emergency support as an add-on. |
Plans
Elastic Observability
- Observability Serverless CompletePrice not published
- Observability Serverless Logs EssentialsPrice not published
OpenNMS
- HorizonFree
- Basic$6,000 a year
- Standard$12,000 a year
- Essential$49,000 a year
- Premier$66,000 a year
- Premier+Priced on request
In their own words
Elastic Observability
Elastic Observability has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
OpenNMS
OpenNMS is an open-source platform for monitoring faults, performance, traffic, and alarms across local and distributed networks. Horizon is the free community distribution with the newest features; Meridian is the stable subscription version. Data collection supports SNMP, JSON, WinRM, XML, SQL, JMX, SFTP, FTP, JDBC, HTTP, HTTPS, VMware, WS-Management, and Prometheus. Traffic monitoring handles NetFlow v.5/9, IPFIX, and sFlow, with stated capacity above 300,000 flows per second. Minions extend monitoring to remote devices and services, including locations behind firewalls or NAT through ActiveMQ or Apache Kafka. Integrations include email, Slack, Mattermost, scripts or webhooks, Jira, Remedy, TSRM, Grafana, and a REST API. Grafana views can show alarms, outages, KPIs, NetFlow, and data from multiple instances. The software supports API, Linux, self-hosted, and web deployments. Horizon is free; Meridian plans range from $6,000 a year to $66,000 a year, with larger deployments priced on request.