Elastic Observability vs OpenZipkin
Elastic Observability
elastic.co
OpenZipkin
zipkin.ioSide by side
| Figure | Elastic Observability | OpenZipkin |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Monitoring Observability | 8.2 (#11) | 7.3 (#20) |
| Deployment | Elastic lists Serverless, Hosted, and self-managed deployment options for Observability; Serverless is fully managed, while self-managed deployments can run on customer infrastructure. | The quickstart describes running Zipkin with Docker, Java, Homebrew, or from source. |
| Purpose | Elastic Observability unifies application and infrastructure monitoring by bringing logs, metrics, application traces, user experience data, and other telemetry together for analysis. | Zipkin collects and looks up tracing data to help troubleshoot latency in service architectures. |
| 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. | The project directs users to its Gitter chat for questions and says the OpenZipkin organization is primarily volunteers. |
Plans
Elastic Observability
- Observability Serverless CompletePrice not published
- Observability Serverless Logs EssentialsPrice not published
In their own words
Elastic Observability
Elastic Observability has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.