Kibana vs Pentaho Embedded Analytics

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.

Pentaho Embedded Analytics has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.