ELK Stack and Prometheus 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.
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| Pricing model | Freemium | Open Source |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| GitHub stars | Not tracked | 65.7K |
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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 listingOpen-source monitoring system with time series database
Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. It collects and stores metrics as time series data, providing a multidimensional data model, flexible query language, and efficient storage.
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