Commercial
Elastic Observability
Search-first observability on Elasticsearch.
- signals
- Traces
- Metrics
- Logs
- Profiles
- otlp ingest
- native endpoint
- storage
- Elasticsearch
- website
- elastic.co/observability ↗
Elastic builds observability on top of Elasticsearch, so full-text log search is a natural strength. It accepts OTLP directly and publishes its own Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) for SDKs and the Collector.
Best for
Log-heavy organisations already using the Elastic Stack.
Strengths
- +Excellent full-text search over logs
- +Mature APM, alerting and ML features
- +Self-managed or Elastic Cloud
Consider
- −Elasticsearch clusters need careful sizing
- −Feature tiers depend on licence level
Also handles these signals