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ELK Stack vs Grafana

ELK Stack and Grafana are both listed under Observability in the DevPages directory. This page puts the details we hold for each of them side by side.

It does not score them and does not pick a winner. Fields the catalog has no value for say “Not recorded” rather than being filled in with a guess.

ELK Stack vs Grafana field by field

ELK Stack, Grafana compared field by field. Values are taken from the DevPages catalog; fields we hold no value for read “Not recorded”.
ELK Stack
Grafana
CategoryObservabilityObservability
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Open sourceYesYes
GitHub starsNot tracked77.6K
Key features
  • Real-time log ingestion and processing
  • Full-text search capabilities
  • Rich visualization and dashboards
  • Scalable and distributed architecture
  • Machine learning for anomaly detection
  • Security and access controls
  • Alerting and monitoring
  • Cloud and on-premises deployment
  • Rich visualization and dashboard creation
  • Support for multiple data sources
  • Advanced alerting and notification system
  • Templating and variables
  • User and team management
  • Plugin ecosystem and extensibility
  • Annotation and event correlation
  • Mobile-friendly responsive design
Use cases
  • Centralized log management
  • Application performance monitoring
  • Security information and event management
  • Business intelligence and analytics
  • Infrastructure monitoring
  • Compliance and audit logging
  • Troubleshooting and debugging
  • Real-time operational insights
  • Infrastructure and application monitoring
  • Business intelligence dashboards
  • IoT and sensor data visualization
  • DevOps metrics and KPIs
  • Real-time analytics
  • Log analysis and correlation
  • Performance monitoring
  • Custom metrics visualization
Integrations
  • Beats
  • APM
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Prometheus
  • InfluxDB
  • Elasticsearch
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS CloudWatch
Tags
  • log-analytics
  • search
  • visualization
  • real-time
  • elasticsearch
  • kibana
  • visualization
  • dashboards
  • metrics
  • monitoring
  • alerting
  • analytics
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What each one is

ELK Stack

Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana for log analytics

The ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) is a powerful combination of tools for searching, analyzing, and visualizing log data in real time. It provides a complete solution for log management, from collection and processing to storage and visualization.

Full ELK Stack listing

Grafana

Open-source analytics and interactive visualization platform

Grafana is the open-source analytics and monitoring solution for every database. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data-driven culture.

Full Grafana listing

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