Google Charts vs Kibana
Google Charts
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Kibana
elastic.coSide by side
| Figure | Google Charts | Kibana |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $99/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 5 |
| Spec score · Data Visualization Software | 8.3 (#34) | 8.9 (#9) |
| Dashboard type | interactive | interactive |
| Data sources | The DataTable class supports sorting, modifying, and filtering data and can be populated from a webpage, database, or compatible data provider. | Elasticsearch,Elastic Agent,Logstash,Beats,OpenTelemetry,APIs,AWS,Microsoft Azure,Google Cloud,Amazon S3,Amazon ECS,web content,files,logs,metrics,traces,and events |
| Embedded dashboards | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | The Chart Tools Datasource protocol is implemented by Google Spreadsheets, Google Fusion Tables, and third-party providers such as Salesforce. | Alert workflows integrate with Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, and more than 100 additional systems. |
| Platform | web | web |
Plans
Kibana
- Free and openFree
- Standard$99 a month
- Gold$114 a month
- PlatinumPriced on request
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Google Charts
Google Charts has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
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.