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Overwhelmed by operational challenges in scaling the ELK Stack?

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ELK Stack: Operational Nightmare in Maintaining and Scaling

Complex set-up, time consuming maintenance, burdensome troubleshooting across multiple tools.

Operational challenges in tuning Elasticsearch clusters to handle large amounts of data.

Elasticsearch customers are responsible for managing infrastructure, data lifecycle, and data tiers, leading to an unnecessary burden on valuable engineering resources.

ELK Stack
Architecture
Cloud-native. Separates compute from storage
Traditional. Monolithic. Tightly coupled compute and storage
Scalability
Elastically scales as needed
Manual. Requires hardware provisioning, tuning Elasticsearch clusters.
Instrumentation and Collection
OpenTelemetry-Native
Data Retention

13 months by default for all data

Data Tiers
All data is always kept hot
Keeping all data hot is cost prohibitive. Users need to create, maintain, and migrate between data tiers – hot or archives and manually rehydrade and reindex data
Unified Observability
All telemetry data in one data lake with one query language and one consistent UI for faster correlations and troubleshooting
Multiple tools and components to manage.
Data Encryption
Included by default. All data is encrypted in-transit and at-rest
Log Derived Metrics
No additional charge. Unlimited log derived metrics are included with logs.
Manual processes of setting encryption can be complex and error-prone.
Overage Bill
No overages. Period.
Premium Support & Customer Success
Included
Available at an additional cost from Elastic

Cut your log management costs
70% or more

Observe provides modern log management and observability that optimizes the total cost of ownership. Enter your daily log ingestion volume below to estimate yearly savings when compared to using Splunk Cloud.

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Understanding the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the ELK Stack

The ELK Stack—comprising Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana—is a popular solution for log management and data analytics. However, as organizations scale, the complexities and costs of maintaining ELK also grow. Read our solution brief to learn the key reasons to replace the ELK stack, including both business and engineering perspectives.

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