ELK Stack vs Oracle Log Analytics
ELK Stack
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| Figure | ELK Stack | Oracle Log Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| 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 | 3 |
| Spec score · Log Management Software | 9.5 (#1) | 8.7 (#16) |
| Archive export | Yes | Yes |
| Dashboards | Kibana provides visualizations, preconfigured dashboards, live presentations, and a UI for managing deployments. | Users can create and customize dashboards, and operators can use dashboards, email reports, and alarms to monitor systems. |
| 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. | Oracle identifies monitoring support for Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, OCI Kubernetes Engine, OCI audit logs, other OCI services, and Oracle Enterprise Manager integration. |
| Log pipelines | Yes | Yes |
| Purpose | The Elastic Stack combines Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash to take data from any source and format for search, analysis, and visualization. | Oracle Log Analytics is an OCI cloud service that indexes, enriches, searches, analyzes, correlates, visualizes, and monitors logs from applications and infrastructure on cloud or on premises. |
| Structured log parsing | Yes | Yes |
| Support | Elastic Cloud subscription tiers include varying levels of support, while paid self-managed Gold, Platinum, and Enterprise subscriptions include support. | Oracle directs customers with active support contracts to My Oracle Support for technical questions and service requests. |
| Trial | Elastic advertises a free 14-day Elastic Cloud trial with no credit card required. | Oracle Cloud Free Tier provides US$300 in credits for up to 30 days on eligible OCI services, and Oracle's Log Analytics page links to that free trial. |
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 Log Analytics
- First 10 gigabytes of log storageFree
- Active StoragePrice not published
- Archival StoragePrice not published
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 Log Analytics
Oracle Log Analytics is an OCI cloud service for collecting and working with logs from applications and infrastructure on cloud or on premises. It indexes, enriches, searches, analyzes, correlates, visualizes, and monitors log data. Machine-learning-based analytics can help narrow log data to possible causes during troubleshooting. Users can create and customize dashboards; operators can monitor systems through dashboards, email reports, and alarms. The service includes more than 250 prebuilt parsers, geolocation enrichment, data masking, and active and archival storage. Collection methods listed include agents, Fluentd, Fluent Bit, Management Agent, service connectors, streaming, SQL, Syslog, Object Storage, APIs, and SDKs. Oracle identifies integrations including Oracle Database, OCI Kubernetes Engine, OCI audit logs, and Oracle Enterprise Manager. Logs are encrypted in transit and at rest by default, and OCI IAM policies and compartments govern access. The pricing page lists the first 10 gigabytes of log storage as free; additional active and archival storage is metered by Log Analytics Storage Units. OCI Free Tier offers credits for up to 30 days on eligible services.