ELK Stack vs SolarWinds Log Analyzer
ELK Stack
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| Figure | ELK Stack | SolarWinds Log Analyzer |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $8/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 12 | 4 |
| Spec score · Log Management Software | 9.5 (#1) | 8.8 (#15) |
| 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. | self-hosted |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Live log tailing | Yes | Yes |
| 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. | Log Analyzer collects, searches, and correlates log and event data across IT infrastructure to help teams identify root causes and resolve issues. |
| 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. | SolarWinds offers technical support, documentation, training, and a user community with over 200,000 registered members. |
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
SolarWinds Log Analyzer
- Essentials$8 a month
- Advanced$14 a month
- Premier$17.50 a month
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (includes Log Analyzer)$8 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.
SolarWinds Log Analyzer
SolarWinds Log Analyzer has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.