Choose Elastic Observability if you need
No checked fact sets Elastic Observability apart from Grafana Cloud yet.
At a glance
- Grafana Cloud has a free plan. We haven't confirmed one for Elastic Observability.
- Elastic Observability offers a free trial (length not stated). We haven't confirmed one for Grafana Cloud.
- Grafana Cloud's lowest paid plan is Pro at $19 per month, plus usage, as of October 19, 2026.
- Both work with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
- Grafana Cloud lists SOC 2 and GDPR. We haven't confirmed any of these for Elastic Observability.
- Grafana Cloud has a public API. We haven't confirmed one for Elastic Observability.
From each tool's own website, checked on the dates below, and from published reviews.
Which to choose
From the facts checked for both tools, not from opinion. A fact we haven't confirmed for one of them is never counted.
Choose Grafana Cloud if you need
- Integration with Kubernetes, AWS or Azure. We haven't found them on Elastic Observability's website.
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Grafana Cloud
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Review Grafana CloudThe facts
- What it does
- Elastic ObservabilityUnify logs, metrics, and traces on one platform.
- Grafana CloudMonitor metrics, logs, traces and profiles on a fully managed observability platform
- Free plan
- Elastic ObservabilityNot confirmed
- Grafana CloudYes
- Pricing
- Elastic ObservabilityNot confirmed
- Grafana CloudFlat monthly plus usage
- Paid plans from
What they share
From the platforms and integrations each website lists.
Integrations
Both
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
Only Elastic ObservabilityNothing else listed
Only Grafana Cloud
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Slack
People who switched
Reviewers who say they used one of these before the other.
No reviewer has said they moved between Elastic Observability and Grafana Cloud yet.
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