Search-first core: logs, metrics, and traces live in one Elasticsearch store. You can query anything, at any scale, without knowing in advance what you're looking for. Add ES|QL, native OpenTelemetry support, and cheap long-term retention via tiered storage, and you get deep, flexible investigation on your own terms, whether SaaS or self-hosted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Self-managed clusters take real effort to tune, scale, and upgrade, and the learning curve (mappings, index lifecycle policies, query languages) is steep for new team members. Out-of-the-box dashboards and the APM interface feel less polished than competitors', and costs can climb quickly at high ingest volumes without careful tuning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.