Amazon MSK vs Coralogix comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Coralogix and Amazon MSK are competing in the data streaming and logging landscape. Coralogix appears to have the upper hand in analytics and user-friendly management, while Amazon MSK excels in integration and scalability.

Features: Coralogix provides advanced real-time logging analytics, customizable dashboards, and a seamless integration with multiple data sources. Its tools are focused on proactive monitoring and swift anomaly detection. Amazon MSK offers scalability and reliability with native compatibility for Apache Kafka, appealing to organizations invested in AWS infrastructure. It emphasizes integration capabilities and scalability.

Room for Improvement: Coralogix could enhance its scalability to cater to larger organizations and improve deeper integration with AWS services. It might also refine data source compatibility for more extensive data sets. Amazon MSK could simplify its deployment process to reduce complexity and enhance user-friendliness for less technically proficient users. Additionally, MSK could improve its analytics capabilities and customer support responsiveness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Coralogix offers a straightforward setup with customizable deployment models suited for diverse environments, accompanied by extensive support and personalized assistance. Amazon MSK’s deployment is complex due to its extensive feature set, but it benefits from comprehensive AWS documentation and support tools. Coralogix stands out for its simplicity and proactive support, while Amazon MSK relies on robust documentation for technically adept teams.

Pricing and ROI: Coralogix presents competitive pricing with potential savings through efficient data management and analytics, offering substantial ROI for businesses seeking visibility and reduced operational overhead. Amazon MSK requires a more significant upfront investment due to its feature-rich platform but delivers high ROI through a comprehensive suite of capabilities, especially for organizations leveraging AWS services. Coralogix emphasizes cost efficiency, while Amazon MSK provides value through integration and native AWS benefits.

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Amazon MSK vs. Coralogix

September 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon MSK

Ranking in Streaming Analytics

6th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Coralogix

Ranking in Streaming Analytics

14th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (20th), Log Management (21st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (23rd), API Management (15th), Anomaly Detection Tools (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Streaming Analytics category, the mindshare of Amazon MSK is 5.9%, down from 9.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Coralogix is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Streaming Analytics Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Amazon MSK	5.9%
Coralogix	0.4%
Other	93.7%

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SYED SHAAZ

Co-Founder & CTO at Photios AI

Improved data streaming and integration challenges prompt search for alternatives

The integration capabilities of Amazon MSK are not very flexible. If you have your own self-managed Kafka, that helps significantly because you can set up configurations. We are considering self-managed Kafka since our product is only one year old. The Kafka integrations are fine, but the configurations are an issue. The only issue with Amazon MSK that we are facing is the configurations. There are preset configurations and limited configurations that we can set for our unique use case. The product could improve by allowing us to set different configurations. I would also like to see Amazon MSK improve in the area of connectors. We are considering Confluent Cloud because they have many more connectors. They have KSQL DB and governance features. It is slightly costlier, but Confluent offers more flexibility with their connectors.

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Jorge Florez

Head SRE Latam at PayU

SaaS platform used by developers to store and conveniently search for logs

If a company has the budget and the log service is critical for them, I would say use Coralogix. It is a very good service for that. I would rate Coralogix an eight out of ten. It is an excellent service for storing logs for a long time. The capacity is unlimited for unindexed logs. The cost model is also very efficient because you pay for the ingested data per month. This can be compared to a solution like New Relic where you have to pay it upfront and cannot limit the data ingestion. Coralogix provides an easy way to search for logs and to visualize them. This a great feature because developers are constantly looking for or browsing logs.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"MSK has a private network that's an out-of-box feature."

"It is a stable product."

"Amazon MSK's separation of concerns and ease of creating and deploying new features are highly valuable. It just requires to assign them to the topic, and then anyone who needs to consume these messages can do so directly from Amazon MSK. This separation of concerns makes it very convenient, especially for new feature development, as developers can easily access the messages they need without having to deal with complex server communications or protocol setups."

"The solution's technical support was helpful."

"Amazon MSK has good integration because our team has been undergoing significant changes. Coupling it with MSK within AWS is helpful. We don't have to set up additionals or monitor external environments. This"

"It offers good stability."

"Overall, it is very cost-effective based on the workflow."

"The scalability and usability are quite remarkable."

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"A non-tech person can easily get used to it."

"The solution is easy to use and to start with."

"Coralogix scales well, and I will rate it nine out of ten."

"The log monitoring is good, and the dashboards that we create are beneficial."

"The best feature of this solution allows us to correlate logs, metrics and traces."

"For now, we have not experienced any stability issues."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"Numerous data monitoring tools are available, but Coralogix somehow fine-tunes our policies and effectively supports our teams."

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Cons

"It would be really helpful if Amazon MSK could provide a single installation that covers all the servers."

"The product's schema support needs enhancement. It will help enhance integration with many kinds of languages of programming languages, especially for environments using languages like .NET."

"The cost of using Amazon MSK is high, which is a significant disadvantage, as the increase in cloud costs by 50% to 60% does not justify the savings."

"The only issue with Amazon MSK that we are facing is the configurations. There are preset configurations and limited configurations that we can set for our unique use case."

"In my opinion, there are areas in Amazon MSK that could be improved, particularly in terms of configuration. Initially setting it up and getting it connected was quite challenging. The naming conventions for policies were updated by AWS, and some were undocumented, leading to confusion with outdated materials. It took us weeks of trial and error before discovering new methods through hidden tutorials and official documentation."

"The downside of Amazon MSK is that when I needed to make a small change in the MSK configuration, it wasn't possible. I had to remove and drop all the clusters and recreate them again, which is complicated in a production environment."

"The configuration seems a little complex and the documentation on the product is not available."

More Amazon MSK cons

"The documentation of the tool could be improved"

"The user interface could be more intuitive and explanatory."

"Coralogix should have some AI capabilities to auto-detect anomalies and provide suggestions. The increasing volume of data and the resulting bandwidth charges are concerns."

"It would be helpful if Coralogix could integrate the main modules that any organization requires into a single subscription."

"The user interface is not intuitive, especially when first onboarding, and improvements could be made here."

"We want it to work at what it is expected to work at and not really based on the updated configuration which one developer has decided to change."

"From my experience, Coralogix has horrible Terraform providers."

"Coralogix should have some AI capabilities to auto-detect anomalies and provide suggestions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The platform has better pricing than one of its competitors."

"When you create a complete enterprise-driven architecture that is deployable on an enterprise scale, I would say that the prices of Amazon MSK and Confluent Platform become comparable."

"The price of Amazon MSK is less than some competitor solutions, such as Confluence."

"We are paying roughly $5,000 a month."

"The platform has a reasonable cost. I rate the pricing a three out of ten."

"The cost of the solution is per volume of data ingested."

"Currently, we are at a very minimal cost, which is around $400 per month since we have reduced our usage. Initially, we were at $900 per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon MSK?

Amazon MSK has significantly improved our organization by building seamless integration between systems.

What needs improvement with Amazon MSK?

What is your primary use case for Amazon MSK?

We are recently working with Amazon MSK at Fortis, where we have multiple dashboards in our revenue intelligence platform. We are streaming data from different apps into those dashboards. The data ...

What do you like most about Coralogix?

Numerous data monitoring tools are available, but Coralogix somehow fine-tunes our policies and effectively supports our teams.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Coralogix?

The pricing is expensive. We need to reduce logs to manage costs. Despite the expense, I believe it is worth the money to have Coralogix as a tool.

What needs improvement with Coralogix?

Change might not be the correct word, but with every service, there is always room to improve. They are improving their services daily and deploy new features. When we had missing features that we ...

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Also Known As

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

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Overview

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Amazon MSK provides the control-plane operations, such as those for creating, updating, and deleting clusters.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Coralogix is a stateful streaming data platform that provides real-time insights and long-term trend analysis with no reliance on storage or indexing, solving the monitoring challenges of data growth in large-scale systems.

Ingest log, metric, and security data from any source for a single, centralized platform to monitor and alert on your applications. As data is ingested, Coralogix instantly narrows millions of events down to common patterns for deeper insights and faster troubleshooting. Proactive data storage optimization enables up to 70% savings on monitoring costs with better performance.

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

Payoneer, AGS, Monday.com, Capgemini