2019-04-03T08:39:00Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ELK Elasticsearch?

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Huseyin Temucin - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2024-02-13T15:04:42Z
Feb 13, 2024

I use the community version. The premium license is expensive. I rate the tool’s pricing an eight out of ten.

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RK
Real User
Top 10
2024-02-08T17:11:35Z
Feb 8, 2024

I rate Elastic Search's pricing an eight out of ten.

Sudeera Mudugamuwa - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2024-01-04T05:18:20Z
Jan 4, 2024

Elastic Search is open-source, but you need to pay for support, which is expensive.

Randy Sanchez - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant
Top 20
2023-11-30T20:53:53Z
Nov 30, 2023

Elastic Search is a bit pricey, especially for individuals or small learners interested in cybersecurity. It could be more affordable for personal use, making it accessible to a broader audience learning about network security and traffic monitoring.

Oleksii Pavlyk - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-10-23T10:25:32Z
Oct 23, 2023

I use the free version. We use the free version for some logs, but not extensive use.

AG
Real User
Top 5
2023-05-31T13:52:00Z
May 31, 2023

The tool is an open-source product.

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Markos Sellis - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-02-16T10:09:00Z
Feb 16, 2023

I'd advise people to involve a team with people from different departments in order to predict the correct scale.

Anshuman Kishore - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-12-21T15:54:08Z
Dec 21, 2022

The developer and tester licenses are one thing that is not hurting us. However, the deployment license cost is very, very high for Elastic.

Rodolfo Marques - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-11-29T21:05:49Z
Nov 29, 2022

I do not have any details about the cost or licensing. That said, the cost is public, and likely, someone can search for the approximate costs online.

Shashi Vardhan Andem - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2022-11-09T16:56:52Z
Nov 9, 2022

The solution is affordable. Previously, we wasted a lot of time by building our own system, which we could have avoided by moving to Elasticsearch earlier.

BM
Real User
Top 20
2022-10-28T22:34:43Z
Oct 28, 2022

We are paying $1,500 a month to use the solution. If you want to have endpoint protection you need to pay more. I rate the price of Elastic Enterprise Search a three out of five.

TS
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-10-21T10:22:09Z
Oct 21, 2022

The solution is less expensive than Stackdriver and Grafana.

Enrique Peragallo - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-09-06T21:26:43Z
Sep 6, 2022

Since it is open-source, we don't pay licensing fees. In the development and QA environment, we don't pay anything. We, however, have to pay for all the software, subscription, pre-protection and protection.

Oscar Narvaez - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2022-08-05T20:39:32Z
Aug 5, 2022

As I use the cloud, all of the costs for me are based on customer needs. There is a fascinating calculator published in Elastic. That there is not a specific starting cost. It can move from $10,000 US Dollars per year to any price based on how powerful you need the searches to be and the capacity in terms of storage and process. That said, you can start with a small budget, implement the use cases, and start growing slowly.

TM
Real User
Top 5
2022-06-26T13:47:27Z
Jun 26, 2022

The version of Elastic Enterprise Search I am using is open source which is free. The pricing model should improve for the enterprise version because it is very expensive.

VA
Real User
2022-03-11T15:32:19Z
Mar 11, 2022

The solution is not expensive because users have the option of choosing the managed or the subscription model.

FF
Real User
Top 20
2021-12-21T10:44:00Z
Dec 21, 2021

There is a free version, and there is also a hosted version for which you have to pay. We're currently using the free version. If things go well, we might go for the paid version.

DL
Real User
2021-11-07T09:33:56Z
Nov 7, 2021

The price of Elasticsearch is fair. It is a more expensive solution, like QRadar. The price for Elasticsearch is not much more than other solutions we have.

Sudeera Mudugamuwa - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2021-10-21T07:50:37Z
Oct 21, 2021

Although the ELK Elasticsearch software is open-source, we buy the hardware.

UW
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2021-09-15T15:58:10Z
Sep 15, 2021

It's a bit too expensive, however, it's not as expensive as Splunk, which is a good thing. It's okay. There are cheaper products that we know, however, this is a very rich product, and it's got a very wide functionality, and a wide range of functionalities which I don't see in the other products, especially not in the cheaper ones.

VM
Real User
2021-07-08T01:32:46Z
Jul 8, 2021

The price could be better.

NA
Real User
2021-06-03T09:33:49Z
Jun 3, 2021

We are using the free open-sourced version of this solution.

ME
Real User
2021-03-31T15:43:54Z
Mar 31, 2021

We are using the Community Edition because Elasticsearch's licensing model is not flexible or suitable for us. They ask for an annual subscription. We also got the development consultancy from Elasticsearch for 60 days or something like that, but they were just trying to do the same trick. That's why we didn't purchase it. We are just using the Community Edition.

it_user1415322 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant
2021-01-04T13:49:14Z
Jan 4, 2021

The pricing model is questionable and needs to be addressed because when you would like to have the security they charge per machine. If you are building any cluster and you are paying €6,000 per machine, that is expensive.

KB
Real User
2020-11-19T16:53:00Z
Nov 19, 2020

The basic license is free, and it comes with a lot of features that aren't supposed to be free! With a Gold license, we get Alerting (called Watcher) and some modest enterprise features. Note that if alerting is a must feature for you, you can install open-source alerting plugins like Open Distro Alerting or ElastAlert and avoid the Gold license cost. Active Directory integration, SAML, SSO, Machine Learning etc. come with Platinum license. The licensing is per-node and per-annum basis for an on-premise installation and for Cloud Elastic-managed service the cost is baked into the hourly pay-as-you-go fee. Kibana does not have a license, so it's free. If you don't want alerting, Active Directory or LDAP integration and are good with native authentication, the basic license will suffice. The basic license also comes with many internal stack features, which are free. For example, data segregation into hot and warm storage, automatic configuration, and rolling over the index after achieving a certain size limit. SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) app is free. Also is another cool app called Uptime that helps us monitor the uptime of servers and web services. We can do this without any third-party licensing cost. Just turn on the apps, ingest data using Beats and the apps will start thriving. Over time they become mission critical to your business. For example, the SIEM app will automatically populate the dashboards and allow us to monitor network traffic, successful logins, unsuccessful login attempts, and anomalous security events. All that comes off the shelf and is free. You'll pay a lot, on the other hand, for a traditional SIEM like ArcSight or LogRhythm. Another free app called Infrastructure (formerly known as Metrics) helps monitor the server infrastructure by configuring light-weight data collectors called MetricBeats (for Windows systems) and AuditBeats (for Linux systems). The Beats will start pumping in all the system performance metrics into the stack and help monitor the memory, CPU and disk utilization.

KR
Real User
2020-10-22T15:53:47Z
Oct 22, 2020

We are using the open-source version. We are not looking into the subscription because it's on-premises in-house.

YR
Real User
2020-10-11T08:58:18Z
Oct 11, 2020

This product is open-source and can be used free of charge.

FZ
Real User
2020-08-02T08:16:43Z
Aug 2, 2020

It can be expensive. When managed by AWS you have different options and features that are locked and not available to you on the Kibana and security levels. You cannot use the full X-Pack feature set when you go through AWS.

it_user844839 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2019-12-09T10:59:00Z
Dec 9, 2019

We are currently using the Open Source version, so we didn't need to offset any licensing. For now, it's just the cost of maintaining the server.

BT
Real User
2019-09-19T08:39:00Z
Sep 19, 2019

The pricing of this solution is not clear.

it_user963378 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2019-04-03T08:39:00Z
Apr 3, 2019

For the next project, we might buy the license, but we don't use it now. I don't know exactly what the license fee for Elasticsearch is currently.

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