Elastic Stack Reviews

Name: Elastic Stack
Brand: Elastic
Rating: 4 (14 reviews)

4.0 out of 5

14 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is Elastic Stack?

It's comprised of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash (also known as the ELK Stack) and more. Reliably and securely take data from any source, in any format, then search, analyze, and visualize.
Built on a foundation of free and open, Elasticsearch and Kibana pave the way for diverse use cases that start with logging and span as far as your imagination takes you. Elastic features like machine learning, security, and reporting compound that value — and since they’re made for Elastic, you'll only find them.

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Elastic Stack is the #14 ranked solution in Log Management Software. PeerSpot users give Elastic Stack an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Elastic Stack is most commonly compared to Wazuh: Elastic Stack vs Wazuh. Elastic Stack is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 54% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 16% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Mahesh Ramichetty

Senior Solution Architect at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Elastic Stack provides all sorts of things, so it provides Elasticsearch for the transformations into a specific format, and pipelines can be defined for distributed applications along with the logs that come in the JSON format, which is clean. It's only the enhancements or the security that the product lacks and needs to be enhanced. I don't think further enhancement of the features needs to be added to the solution because it is already equivalent to a monitoring or alerting system, like Dynatrace and other tools. Some developments in the area of AI, which Elastic Stack is currently working on, should be fine in terms of the enhancements. Whenever some critical issue happens, there should be some kind of a co-pilot that helps resolve the issue. The tool should learn from its own previous issues. If you take Databricks, you see that it provides a co-pilot for Python, so a similar kind of development in Elastic Stack would be a real asset for it. AI would be considered a good way to enable the tool further for more in 2024, and even a beta launch would be helpful. If you take any sort of cloud-native monitoring product, like Azure Monitor or AWS CloudWatch, you see that such products don't provide much of the insights. If you go with Azure Monitor for any sort of ML models to be there, Sentinel needs to be used from Azure, which is very costly. AI-enablement would be a big improvement in Elastic Stack. Everyone in the monitoring space, including Dynatrace and New Relic, has lately been discussing AI, but it doesn't seem to be coming out. If there is room for an ML model in Elastic Stack, then it would be good.

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SRIDHAR KARRA

Chief Operating Officer at Integra Micro Software Services, Bangalore

Elastic Stack is used for advanced search and observability purposes. It is utilized for Application Performance Monitoring and log monitoring in daily operations. Elastic Stack is mainly used to monitor servers and APIs. It helps ensure the software's availability and sends notifications at the…

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Charan Teja Sana

Senior Consultant at HGS - Hinduja Global Solutions

We're using Elastic Stack for logging as part of our MDR solution within a SIEM system. We have developed our user interface on top of the Elastic Stack. We leverage Elastic for its storage and parsing capabilities It provides a faster response. It supports various integrations. It's open source…

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Elastic Stack mindshare

As of September 2024, the mindshare of Elastic Stack in the Log Management category stands at 2.7%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Last updated Aug 11, 2024

Valuable Features

"It supports various integrations. It's open source and has excellent community support."
"We can group a lot of alarms into one automation alarm supervision. The alarm supervision allows us to put the alarm under the same. It's quite helpful for us. We used that to suppress our alarms. Elastic already provides the agent. It is easy to integrate Elastic Stack with other devices and vendors."
"The detection rules in Elastic Stack are the most valuable feature. The search capabilities are excellent and fast. As we collect logs from workstations and devices, the detection rules run on top of the logs and detect any suspicious activity, raising alerts accordingly. Integration with Elastic Stack depends on the specific integration. Elastic provides some bridging integrations that make it easy, but require custom integration. Most integrations are simple, but customization can be challenging because we need to do some parsing. There's something called Elastic Common Schema, and we need to parse the source logs to match this schema, which can be a bit challenging."

Room for Improvement

"There could be better documentation."
"Support could be improved. The error code is not helpful. We have to ask for it or pass it on to community forums."
"Improving integration capabilities, especially with authentication systems, firewalls, and security controls, is a crucial area for improvement in Elastic Stack. Additionally, enhancing functionality to handle large Yara queries more efficiently would be beneficial, as many EDR solutions can run such queries faster than Elastic Stack's current limitations."

Pricing

"I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."
"If I compare Elastic Stack to the other products in the market, I would say that the tool is available at a competitive price."
"Ultimately, the pricing depends upon the capacity planning that the enterprise architect does."

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