ELK Stack vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging
ELK Stack
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| Figure | ELK Stack | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $0.05/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 12 | 4 |
| Spec score · Log Management Software | 9.5 (#1) | 9.0 (#12) |
| Archive export | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | Elastic Stack is available as hosted Elastic Cloud service or self-managed software for on-premises, public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid environments. | cloud |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | Elastic offers over 300 turn-key integrations for Search, Security, Observability, and cloud providers including AWS, Azure, and GCP. | Connector Hub can route logs to Monitoring, Notifications, Streaming, third-party destinations including Splunk, or Object Storage. |
| Log pipelines | Yes | Yes |
| Log retention | 30 | 30 |
| Security | Security capabilities include authentication integrations, role-based access control, SSL/TLS encryption, IP filtering, audit logging, and field- and document-level controls. | Log groups and Oracle Identity and Access Management policies control access to logs, and unauthorized requests are denied and audited. |
| Structured log parsing | Yes | Yes |
Plans
ELK Stack
- BasicPrice not published
- Logs EssentialsPriced on request
- Complete$0.09 a month
- Standard$99 a month
- Gold$114 a month
- Platinum$131 a month
- Enterprise$184 a month
- Basic (self-managed)Free
- Elastic Cloud hostedPriced on request
- Elastic Cloud ServerlessPriced on request
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging
- Free allowanceFree
- Usage$0.05 a month
- Free tierFree
- Pay as you go$0.05 a month
In their own words
ELK Stack
The Elastic Stack combines Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash to bring data from different sources into search, analysis and visualization workflows. Elasticsearch is a distributed, JSON-based search and analytics engine, while Kibana provides dashboards, visualizations, live presentations and deployment management. Elastic Agent, Beats and a web crawler can ingest information from applications, infrastructure and public content. Features include alerting, machine learning, vector search, graph analytics, clustering, high availability and data lifecycle management. Elastic positions the platform for Search, Observability and Security, including centralized logging, monitoring and security analytics. It is available as hosted Elastic Cloud or as self-managed software for on-premises, public cloud, private cloud and hybrid environments. Elasticsearch and Kibana have an open source foundation, and Elasticsearch can be downloaded and started free. Elastic Cloud offers a 14-day trial without a credit card. Hosted pricing depends on deployment components and can include snapshot storage and data transfer charges; listed hosted tiers start at $99 a month.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging is a cloud service for collecting and working with audit logs, OCI service logs, and custom application logs. It supports SQL-like searches, filtering, aggregation, and visualization across infrastructure, application, audit, and database logs, with structured parsing and log pipelines. Custom logs can come from OCI instances, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, on-premises environments, and other cloud providers. Listed service sources include Network Flow Logs, Load Balancer, Object Storage, Functions, API Gateway, and Events. You can use the OCI console, an SDK, command-line interface, REST API, or Terraform. Connector Hub can route logs to Monitoring, Notifications, Streaming, third-party destinations including Splunk, or Object Storage; exports to Object Storage can provide indefinite retention. Ingestion uses Fluentd, and events are normalized to CloudEvents 1.0. Access is managed through log groups and Oracle Identity and Access Management policies. The free tier includes 10 GB of log storage per month, with ingestion and search free. Pay-as-you-go storage is $0.05 per GB stored per month.