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Elastic Beats vs. Grafana Loki

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Elastic Beats
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Elastic Beats is a free and open platform for single-purpose data shippers. They send data from hundreds or thousands of machines and systems to Logstash or Elasticsearch. Beats includes technology from the former Packetbeat, acquired by Elastic in 2015.N/A
Grafana Loki
Score 6.9 out of 10
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Grafana Logs (powered by Loki) brings together logs from applications and infrastructure in a single place. By using the exact same service discovery and label model as Prometheus, Grafana Logs can systematically guarantee logs have consistent metadata with metrics. Grafana Logs lets users send logs in any format, from any source so it’s easy to add to existing infrastructure and get up and running quickly. Leverage a wide array of clients for shipping logs like…N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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AWS integrations are easy, metrics are easily accesable Long term log insights need to be thought out and set up carefully
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Pros
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  • Integration with AWS
  • Notifications land where they should
  • Broad integration options
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Cons
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  • Offer log suggestions.
  • Offer basic query syntax check.
  • Offer data range controls.
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Usability
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I think it is very developer minded and has a very high learning curve
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Alternatives Considered
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Loki is an essential complement to Grafana and provides logging metrics for dashboards and other visual tools. Loki can handle the service logging, while other data source plugins can provide more specific quantifiable metrics to support the logging data. Different types of metrics make a robust data dashboard.
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Return on Investment
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  • Enable engineers to access logs quickly to distribute the workload.
  • Provide a possible standard for log access between multiple services.
  • Provide data metrics for customer use.
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Joshua Li
System Integration And Test Engineer
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