Elastic Observability vs Grafana k6
| Elastic Observability | Grafana k6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | |
| Free trial | Yes | |
| Paid from | $19/mo | |
| Platforms | api, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, Web, Windows | Linux |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Log retention | 30 days | 30 days |
| Log pipelines | Yes | Yes |
| Archive export | Yes | Yes |
| Live log tailing | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment options | both | both |
| Structured log parsing | Yes | Yes |
| Distributed tracing | Yes | |
| Transaction tracing | Yes | |
| Dependency mapping | Yes | |
| Real user monitoring | Yes | |
| Log correlation | Yes | |
| Deployment model | hybrid | self_hosted |
| Paid from | 99 /mo | $19/mo |
| Deployment | hybrid | self_hosted |
| Language support | PHP, Python, Java/JVM, Go, Rust, C/C++, Node.js/V8, Ruby, Perl, Zig | |
| Profiling types | CPU profiling through stack sampling | |
| Data retention | 30 days | 30 days |
| Core Web Vitals | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile app monitoring | No | |
| Interaction tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Geographic breakdown | Yes | Yes |
| Error correlation | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing metric | custom | sessions |
| Fastest schedule | 1-minute | |
| Browser checks | Yes | |
| API checks | Yes | |
| Transaction checks | Yes | |
| Journey checks | Yes | |
| OpenTelemetry support | Yes | |
| Service map | Yes | |
| Tail-based sampling | Yes | |
| Kubernetes support | Yes | |
| Network visibility | Yes | |
| Application tracing | Yes | |
| Kernel profiling | No | |
| Supported operating systems | Linux | |
| Load testing | Yes | |
| Stress testing | Yes | |
| Browser-based testing | Yes | |
| Distributed load | Yes | |
| API testing | Yes | |
| Profiling modes | both | |
| Supported languages | C/C++, Go, Rust, Zig, Java, .NET, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.js, Perl | |
| CPU profiling | Yes | |
| Memory profiling | Yes | |
| Thread profiling | Yes | |
| Logs support | Yes | |
| Metrics support | Yes | |
| Traces support | Yes | |
| Transform rules | Yes | |
| Multi-destination routing | Yes | |
| Data enrichment | Yes | |
| SQL support | No | |
| Retention policies | Yes | |
| Horizontal scaling | Yes | |
| Query languages | PromQL | |
| Ingestion methods | Prometheus remote write; Grafana Agent; Prometheus Agent; OpenTelemetry; Influx; Graphite; Datadog |
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