Elastic Stack Reviews & Product Details

The Elastic Stack, commonly known as the ELK Stack, is a comprehensive suite of open-source tools designed for ingesting, storing, analyzing, and visualizing data in real-time. It comprises Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, enabling users to handle data from any source and in any format efficiently. Key Features and Functionality: - Elasticsearch: A distributed, JSON-based search and analytics engine that allows for rapid storage, search, and analysis of large volumes of data. - Kibana: An extensible user interface that provides powerful visualizations, dashboards, and management tools to interpret and present data effectively. - Beats and Logstash: Data ingestion tools that collect and process data from various sources, transforming and forwarding it to Elasticsearch for indexing. - Integrations: A multitude of pre-built integrations that facilitate seamless data collection and connection with the Elastic Stack, enabling quick insights. Primary Value and User Solutions: The Elastic Stack empowers organizations to harness the full potential of their data by providing a scalable and resilient platform for real-time search and analytics. It addresses challenges such as managing large datasets, ensuring high availability, and delivering relevant search results swiftly. By offering a unified solution for data ingestion, storage, analysis, and visualization, the Elastic Stack enables users to gain actionable insights, enhance operational efficiency, and make informed decisions based on their data.

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Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/28/2021

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"Great affordable solution"

4/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Super easy to visualize data and do basic analysis. The price point compared to similar tools is a massive plus. Handles large data well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Tableau is definitely the better product, but it's also more expensive. I think Kibana could improve some of its functionality by making pivoting easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/3/2022

"Good tool for data visualization"

4/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Like the best is its powerful features for data visualization like pie chart histogram line charts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

No such dislikes about this application as not used it advanced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bhawna P.

Technical Account Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/20/2021

"Great tool for managing daily transections"

5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Allows data visualization in terms of graphs, charts in real-time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

The graphical representation on the web can be improved. Query formation can be more simlpified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/7/2021

"Best tool for elastic search queries and making dashboards"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Writing queries and executing them on Kibana is very easy and user-friendly. Also, you can make pretty dashboards with your data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Display of errors is not up to the mark, they are very confusing sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Elastic Stack:

There are multiple ways of querying data on Kibana, read the documentation thoroughly and use stack overflow they have the best support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elastic Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Kibana to query my data stored in elastic search. Benefits are its easy to use and you can visualize the data at same place also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/9/2021

"Easy and Powerful Visualization/Dashboarding tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

The easy to use interface and integration with elasticsearch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

features like adding a custom HTML code as visualization or adding own custom metrics for visualizations are missing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abdelaziz I.

Integrity/Fraud, Senior Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/29/2021

"Stable reliable experience"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

What I like best about Kibana is how fast it is in fetching and visualizing data.

Also its ease of conversion of visualization and dashboard into reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Plugins addition does not always work right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shekhar P.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/4/2020

"Logstash is easy way to migrate data between two different sources."

5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Filter data without effect to original data and the speed of processing the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

The proper syntax is not available in some cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Elastic Stack:

I am using logstash from the last 4 years and it's very easy to use as compared to other migration application tools. I will recommend using at least one time to see the power of logstash. It's free and open-source under the license of Apache 2.0. Logstash best use in the market to data processing and data migration, so a lot of features are there. So you can start using this according to your requirements and explore its step by step. As this is also a part of the ELK stack, so there also support available on the Elasticsearch sites. We are using logstash for a lot of different purposes. And the best things about the logstash is that it is easy to write a script. And it's work best for both small datasets along with big data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elastic Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?

I migrate data from different input source files like storage, XML data, Kafka, Spark, etc. to other sources like Kafka, Elasticsearch, Spark, Hadoop, etc. We also used logstash to read weblogs and visualize that logs into the web through Kibana. We also used logstash to modify the data in between streaming before reached to the destination. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tmac .

Computer system analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/24/2020

"Elastic Search - A great Open Source Search Tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Its Open Source - Free to use

Its Independent and can be integrated to many analytics dashboards

the multiple filters that can be applied are really convenient

The visualization and the dashboard functionality are great

Alerting features are really nice to be used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Some of the Search methods are little complex to use initially. Not super user friendly in the initial days.

The plugins are good.

Maintenance is easy and the process is robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/29/2021

"Best all around data store which is easy and fast"

5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Best search engine. Easy to set up and being productive from the start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

if ES has transactions part of the indexing would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashish A.

RPA UiPath Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/11/2021

"Turning Data into Information and insight - Kibana"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

The data visualisation is great, It is easy to use and helps us picture the data of work to our clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Nothing as of now, But I am sure competitor products must be there doing well and kibana should match them for any shortcomings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.