Elastic Observability vs New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring

Elastic Observability

8.4 #7 in Log Management Software

6.0 #32 in Kubernetes Monitoring

	Elastic Observability	New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring
Free plan		Yes
Free trial	Yes
Paid from		$29.08/mo
Platforms	api, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, Web, Windows	Linux, self-hosted, Web, Windows
Free plan	No	Yes
Distributed tracing	Yes	Yes
Transaction tracing	Yes
Dependency mapping	Yes
Real user monitoring	Yes
Log correlation	Yes
Deployment model	hybrid	hybrid
Paid from	99 /mo	10 /user/mo
Deployment	hybrid
Language support	PHP, Python, Java/JVM, Go, Rust, C/C++, Node.js/V8, Ruby, Perl, Zig
Profiling types	CPU profiling through stack sampling
Log retention	30 days
Log pipelines	Yes
Archive export	Yes
Live log tailing	Yes
Deployment options	both
Structured log parsing	Yes
Data retention	30 days	8 /days
Core Web Vitals	Yes	Yes
Mobile app monitoring	No	No
Interaction tracking	Yes	Yes
Geographic breakdown	Yes	Yes
Error correlation	Yes	Yes
Pricing metric	custom	custom
Fastest schedule	1-minute	1-minute
Browser checks	Yes	Yes
API checks	Yes	Yes
Transaction checks	Yes	Yes
Journey checks	Yes	Yes
Supported platforms		Kubernetes; Docker on Linux and Windows
Container metrics		Yes
Resource alerts		Yes
Image monitoring		Yes
Runtime events		Yes
Container log collection		Yes
Query profiling		Yes
Wait and lock analysis		Yes
Execution plans		Yes
Supported databases		Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Amazon DynamoDB
Synthetic monitoring		Yes
Telemetry types		metrics, logs, traces, events
Log search		Yes
Pricing model		usage_based