Elastic Agent

7.3easy start · #5 of 27
in Telemetry Pipeline Software

Free to practise onnot on record
Free trialyes
Well documentedyes
Runs where you workyes

Runs on api, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web, Windows. Paid plans from $99/mo.

Elastic Agent is ranked #5 of 27 in telemetry pipeline software on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $99/mo.

Elastic Agent plans and pricing

All plans

Standard $99/mo As low as Distributed Elasticsearch across AWS, Azure, GCP · centralized ingest and agent management · limited web support elastic.co · 1 Oct 2026

Gold $114/mo As low as Everything in Standard · reporting · third-party alerting · business-hours phone and web support elastic.co · 1 Oct 2026

Platinum $131/mo As low as Everything in Gold · machine learning · cross-cluster replication · 24/7/365 support · 99.95% monthly uptime SLA elastic.co · 1 Oct 2026

Enterprise $184/mo As low as Everything in Platinum · Elastic Agent Builder · Elastic Workflows · premium 24/7/365 support · 99.95% monthly uptime SLA elastic.co · 1 Oct 2026

Compared on telemetry pipeline software

Free plan: Yes
Logs support: Yes
Metrics support: Yes
Traces support: Yes
Transform rules: Yes
Multi-destination routing: Yes
Data enrichment: Yes
Deployment model: both

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The record

Unified collection: Elastic Agent collects logs, metrics, traces, availability, security, and other data from each host through one unified agent.
Fleet management: Fleet provides a web-based UI to centrally add and manage agents and integrations at scale.
Runtime operations: Fleet can deploy upgrades and policies across thousands of agents at runtime and track agent status, configuration, overhead, processes, and versions.
Integrations: Elastic Agent and Fleet include out-of-the-box dashboards, visualizations, and ingest pipelines for popular services and platforms.
Integration catalog: Elastic offers over 300 turn-key integrations covering search, security, observability, AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Deployment platforms: The download page provides Elastic Agent packages for Linux, Windows, and macOS architectures.
OpenTelemetry package: The Elastic Agent package includes a separate otelcol binary that runs OpenTelemetry Collector components.
Pricing model: Elastic Agent's product page states that customers pay for the resources they need and are not charged by ingest.
Cloud trial: Elastic Cloud offers a free 14-day trial with one hosted deployment and three Serverless projects.
Trial limits: During the trial, hosted deployments are limited to one active deployment, 4 GB RAM per availability zone for Elasticsearch data nodes, and up to two availability zones.
Security and compliance: Elastic says its services are independently audited and certified for standards including FedRAMP High and Moderate, PCI DSS, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, SOC 3, and HIPAA.
Support resources: Elastic directs Elastic Agent users to its documentation and community forum for questions and help.
Target users: Elastic describes Elastic Agent use across search, observability, and security use cases for infrastructure, applications, and mobile-device telemetry.
Founded: 2012
Price from: $99/mo

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Telemetry Pipeline Software in 2026#5 of 27

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Sources

elastic.co/elastic-agent· checked 1 Oct 2026
elastic.co/docs/reference/integrations· checked 1 Oct 2026
elastic.co/docs/reference/edot-collector/download· checked 1 Oct 2026
elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud· checked 1 Oct 2026
elastic.co/trust/· checked 1 Oct 2026
elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted· checked 1 Oct 2026