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Freeboard vs Kibana

Freeboard

freeboard.github.io

Kibana

elastic.co

Side by side

FigureFreeboardKibana
Price fromFree$99/mo
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
WebYesYes
APIYes—
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published15
Spec score · Data Visualization Software7.7 (#62)8.9 (#9)
Dashboard typeinteractiveinteractive
Data sourcesJSON,Open Weather Map API,Dweet.io,Playback,Clock,OctobluElasticsearch,Elastic Agent,Logstash,Beats,OpenTelemetry,APIs,AWS,Microsoft Azure,Google Cloud,Amazon S3,Amazon ECS,web content,files,logs,metrics,traces,and events
Embedded dashboardsYesYes
Free planYesYes
Platformwebweb

Plans

Freeboard

  • Freeboard open-source softwareFree

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Kibana

  • Free and openFree
  • Standard$99 a month
  • Gold$114 a month
  • PlatinumPriced on request
  • EnterprisePriced on request

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In their own words

Freeboard

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Kibana

Kibana is an open-source web interface for querying, analyzing, visualizing, and managing Elasticsearch data. Its tools include Discover, Dashboards, Dev Tools Console, Maps, alerting, and developer console capabilities. Interactive dashboards can combine metrics, XY charts, graphs, maps, tables, live data, drilldowns, and reusable saved queries, and dashboards can be embedded. Data sources include Elasticsearch, Elastic Agent, Logstash, Beats, OpenTelemetry, APIs, cloud platforms, files, logs, metrics, traces, and events. Data can be ingested into Elasticsearch through OpenTelemetry, Logstash, and Beats. The self-managed Free and open tier includes Kibana and the full Elastic Stack, with native authentication, role-based access control, and TLS encryption; its support is community-based. Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless offer a free trial. Standard hosted pricing is listed from $99 per month, as low as, based on cloud production configuration. Kibana also offers no-code machine learning for anomalies, rare events, message patterns, and alerting, plus geospatial tools such as distance filters and shape overlays.

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