--- title: "Elastic Stack Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra" description: "Is Elastic Stack the right Log Management solution for you? Explore 70 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice." source_url: "https://www.capterra.com/p/149304/Elasticsearch/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" publication_date: "2026-10-19" --- Elastic Stack 4.5 (70) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/149304/Elasticsearch/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated October 19th, 2026 # Reviews of Elastic Stack Ease of use 4.1 Customer Service 3.9 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews PN Phuc N Software EngineerFinancial Services, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Given what the open source version offer, I am happy and definitely recommend it for SME and small project. But when it comes to bigger company with lots of customization and integration, it might become challenging“ January 2, 2025 AB Anis B Software Development EngineerComputer Software, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “When there is a large text searches, the elastic search sometime crashes.“ February 10, 2023 Katarína D Customer Support SpecialistInformation Technology and Services, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “It allows us to look and compare historical data and gives us a great visualisation, analytic tools and data sharing options of all the data collected by our scanner.“ December 30, 2021 Mo F DevOps ArchitectInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Currently it is not recommended or supported for a PROD cluster to do its own self monitoring so you have to deploy a monitoring cluster.“ April 22, 2022 IP Isak P DeveloperInformation Technology and Services, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “The Elastic Stack allows our team to solve multiple problems, ranging from logging, to analytics and search.“ October 1, 2022 HH Houcem H CITNSOTelecommunications, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Initial setup can be tedious and is rather complex.“ April 14, 2022 Vandana J Software EngineerComputer Software, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Elastic search is very fast, it returns the results within a few milliseconds.“ February 28, 2023 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 70 available reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Moises F. DevOps Architect Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes for best scalability" April 25, 2022 5.0 Organizing chat data to be searchable and log management to proactively fix issues. Pros One of the best features I like is that Elastic built their own kubernetes operator to extend the k8s orchestration and make it easy to deploy, scale, change, secure and configure hot-warm infrastructures. Their operator saves a ton of time during configuration. I have deployed stacks on different k8s architectures like Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service and small on prem clusters with microk8s without issues. When we reach performance thresholds we add more elastic nodes and ECK secures and joins it to the cluster and in minutes we can leverage the extra compute. A lot of changes that are done after going to PROD are non-disruptive since ECK is aware of the main node and makes sure to pass the master role before the main one is re-deployed. I have also migrated Elastic Cloud Enterprise deployments running on bare metal and the stability of ECK is unmatched. Cons Currently it is not recommended or supported for a PROD cluster to do its own self monitoring so you have to deploy a monitoring cluster. In cloud scenarios this adds costs and extra complexity so it will be great to have this feature supported. Review Source Vinicius G. Software Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Fantastic Search Tool for logging" February 28, 2025 5.0 It's been a great experience, I was able to leverage it to extract useful information from an extensive mass of data. Pros It's a fantastic tool for searching on the application tools. Cons It's documentation could be a little bit more detailed in terms of examples. Review Source victor luis G. student Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "This powerful tool allows you to take data from any source and format to search and analyze." March 27, 2018 3.0 Pros It is a super fast and efficient data extraction tool. Recommended for medium-sized projects. Handles large amounts of data, is scalable. Cons Usable from any device, however these must be state-of-the-art and offer great calculation speeds and ram storage. Review Source R Reviewer Software Engineer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "ELK - a good, free start for small team and not so many integrations required" January 6, 2025 4.0 Given what the open source version offer, I am happy and definitely recommend it for SME and small project. But when it comes to bigger company with lots of customization and integration, it might become challenging Pros It has open source version so that anyone can start using without worrying about cost. It is also widely used, so once you are familiar with ELK, you are likely to have a good fundamental knowledge of how monitoring, logging... works Cons To a certain extent, it gets complicated when it comes to set up, scale and manage infrastructure. Also, out of the box integration with popular tools are not as great as other alternatives. Review Source Verified Reviewer Technical Lead Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "A very good stack to store and visualize data." February 28, 2023 5.0 Overall I am happy with my decision to choose Elastic Stack. It is completely fulfilling my requirements without any issues.Kibana works very well even with a lot of data. Pros I mostly like the Elastic Search queries. Those follow a certain standard and work very well. Data retrieval is very easy and fast in Elastic Search.Visualizing data thru Kibana is very smooth and straightforward. It supports a couple of inbuilt dashboards to represent the data nicely. Cons Nothing to dislike about Elastic Stack. The only thing is configuration and setup should be correct. It could take some time for beginners. Review Source Verified Reviewer Data Scientist Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Elastic Stack - A Complete Package for Big Data Visualizations and Fast Data Query!" August 22, 2022 5.0 Elastic Stack is a powerful platform which allows you to quickly search and query on the data even if the data is in huge volume, thanks to its distributed computing and storage. it has enabled me to develop an application which fetches results from TBs of data in seconds. Pros 1.Allows Faster searching and query operations 2.Provides with easy data visualization for analysis 3.Support for multiple data sources 4.Good SDK support for quick integration with application 5.Scalable as per the requirement with support of kubernetes Cons 1.UI is simple ,could be made more robust and dynamic 2.Calculations and processing speed can be further improved 3.Proper usage knowledge is required when using it on scalable platforms Review Source Animesh S. System Engineer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Best for Website Monitoring, Event Management and Log Analysis. " May 6, 2022 5.0 This lightweight, yet powerful, modern SIEM is well-suited for the modern security operations center as it can handle a wide range of activities with ease. elastic Stack is a powerful and flexible SIEM with feature-rich out-of-the-box tools that make it easy to get the job. Pros We are using ELK Stack SIEM, a scalable aggregation engine that helps us find patterns in our data as well as provides a wide array of customizable analytics and reports. With Elastic Stack, we have a better understanding of flaws and security issues, particularly memory tier support that ensures the security of our data and networks. Cons It is very challenging and time-consuming to upgrade cluster node roles and data replication. Review Source Gedson S. Senior Production Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "The perfect searching allied to a RDB" February 22, 2020 4.0 We've been pairing Elasticsearch with a traditional RDB in many projects with great results. This way we don't compromise our data reliability and searching speed is blazing fast. Pros Searching is where elasticsearch is second to none, either in terms, n-grams or full-text. Latest releases have greatly improved the aggregation performance, so it's also a great fit for analytics workloads. The customizable sharding and replica configurations make is very reliable too. Cons Searching and joining different documents has room for improvement, it's usualy not as fast as we would like it to be, so most of the times we end up un-normalizing documents and en-richening their data to boost searching performance. Review Source R Reviewer Software Developer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "One of the Best No sql Document Base Database" May 4, 2021 5.0 In our projects, we use elasticsearch in database queries that need fast answers. It is especially useful for search and autocomplete operations. Pros When you want to run queries in big data and get results, you can get results much faster from relational databases. Queries are also easy to create Cons We sometimes have problems during the integration of Kibana. But we couldn't figure out why Other than that, I didn't have any problems Review Source R Reviewer Programmer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Have too much data to your database?" December 4, 2019 5.0 Our application makes many filters for too much data, without Elasticsearch it just stops Pros \- Almost 100% of uptime - Great support - Really fast and easy to use for any application - Easy to configure Cons \- The cost of product may inviabilize it's use for small applications or companies - If the configuration goes wrong it may really affect the speed Review Source R Reviewer System Administrator Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Tolles Produkt - Misserables Firmengebaren" June 10, 2022 4.0 Der Elastic Stack mit 15 Nodes betreiben wir OnPrem als zentrales Logfile-Monitoring für unzählige Systeme. Pros Die search engine ist der Hammer. Die Software funktioniert gut, zuverlässig und performant. Cons In 4 Jahren hat 3 mal der Firmensitz gewechselt, letztes mal ins Ausland. Cowboy-Manieren beim Vertragsverlängerung - friss unsere AGBs (in Business-English) oder stirb. Ständig wechselnde Ansprechpartner. Rechnungen mit wechselnden Kontoverbindungen. Review Source R Reviewer Software Development Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Reliable and easy to use tech stack" February 13, 2023 5.0 It's an easy choice when complex queries are involved, if cost is a secondary factor. Pros Natural language processing like stemming, removing stopwords, multilingual search, tokenized storage etc. Cons When there is a large text searches, the elastic search sometime crashes. This needs to be optimized. Review Source M. Serhat D. Senior Software Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "A complete stack for full text search" April 6, 2020 5.0 Elasticsearch might be overkill if you are working with a small or mid-sized applications. However it's a serious solution for big-scale apps that are dealing with millions of records. The setup of the Elasticsearch might seem easy, but the maintenance is not. If you have simpler needs, I would suggest the full-text search functionality of modern PostgreSQL versions. Pros Elasticsearch is quite powerful and fast. You can implement it to any enterprise software independent of the scale. It's well documented and getting frequent updates. It's also a reliable software that you can use in mission-critical operations. Cons Breaking changes between different versions are hard to deal with. Each major version upgrade of ElasticSearch is bringing new functionality, improved security, and speed - but at the same time, it requires you to update your indexes, which is not an easy task if you don't have a strong infrastructure team. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Software Developer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Elasticsearch is a general purpose search engine that can do much more than search" January 14, 2019 4.0 We use Elasticsearch to filter and sort search results in our marketplace. We've built out many complicated queries that allow us to do interesting things like geo-based queries, personalization, and time boxed deals. Pros Elasticsearch offers a very flexible system for adding search capability to your systems. It is also capable of much more. The REST API and great documentation makes getting started very simple. Elasticsearch was also designed with scaling in mind. Adding nodes and self balancing is quite easy. AWS offers hosted Elasticsearch that makes spinning up your first cluster as simple as a few clicks. Cons Writing complicated queries can be quite tedious at times. The JSON interface is not always easy to read when trying to match up parentheses. Upgrading from older versions is not a simple process. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Desenvolvedor Backend Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Really fast" December 3, 2018 5.0 Pros Its a really good solution for people looking to process large volumes of data, it allows to filter, make aggregations and other operations really fast even when you need to rely on text search. Cons Its really easy to make your performance really low, you have to be really careful with your cluster setup, mapping and queries. Review Source Verified Reviewer Senior iOS Developer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "wow. it really is powerful" February 5, 2019 5.0 Pros it's a really powerful tool that can find exactly everything you need on your data. Cons if you manage it by yourself on your infrastructure, pay attention to the needed resources Review Source Verified Reviewer Business Analyst Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Elasticsearch is a real-time distributed and document based search and analytics engine" May 22, 2019 4.0 This is one of the favorites in Streaming Analytics. Pros Mainly it an open source. Improved Scalability with full-text search, sharding & Aggregations. Cons When it comes to querying, it's less flexible comparing to PostresSQL. Not much recommended as a "Data Store" when comparing to Hadoop or MongoDB. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer IT Architect Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Totally worth using it, Great Search Performance, Scalable, Easy to use, Cloud Offering" June 7, 2018 4.0 Fast Search Performance JSON format is compatible with our API It is exactly what we have been looking for i.e. search database which is not tightly coupled like other relational databases e.g. SQL Pros Open Source Software Compatible with all the latest technologies due to JSON support Documentation & Support Service Monitoring Cons Installation & Configuration is something I have struggled a bit especially while upgrading to a higher version. Therefore this is one area where there is some scope of improvement. Review Source R Reviewer Senior Network Engineer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "An extremely powerful tool that must be secured" August 30, 2019 5.0 My initial attempts to get a full ELK stack running were supremely frustrating. After spending loads of time getting a few installs up and running, I now just spin up a snapshot clone on Digital Ocean. Instant fresh install. Pros The options available to tweak this platform is literally endless. You are able to extend this setup to handle virtually any data source / data type that you have. Just to get up and running will cost you nothing. Cons A default, "simple" install is almost instantly hackable. I was aware of this issue, but according to a never ending list of current news stories, most users aren't aware of how vulnerable this setup is. Keep in mind that this is not locked down by default and if you install this on a public facing server without IP access restrictions or solid firewalling, you will be taken over, you will leak customer data and you may end up with the type of brand recognition that you do not want. Review Source R Reviewer Systems Architect Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "The best free data aggregation tool out there!" April 23, 2018 5.0 Pros Elasticsearch (as part of the ELK stack, which includes Logstash and Kibana) is the best free alternative to other data aggregation tools like Splunk. It's incredibly fast and sits behind a REST API that's easy to use, and easy to understand. Cons Elasticsearch by itself is not an "end user product". You need to use Kibana, Grafana, or something similar to more easily view the data contained in Elasticsearch. Review Source Verified Reviewer Student Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "SIEM, easy to manage and use " May 16, 2022 5.0 Pros The fact that it is easy to set up and use. Cons The platform seems to be a bit slow for me in decent usage Review Source R Reviewer Software Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Good for searching and analytics" August 24, 2017 5.0 Pros Best storage for searching, very quick in response Documentation is good Highly scalable Good command line interface for administration Cons NoSQL help is not much clear with samples. Not suitable for transactions. Every NoSQL db has different standardization that makes little irritating Not suitable for single pc installation Review Source R Reviewer CEO Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "I used the Python library to interact with ELK. " June 12, 2017 5.0 Pros Its flexibility ad X-pack options. It is also very easy to buikld an index and its Kibana interface is amazing. Cons The documentation and support has been a little muddled but I think that is getting a lot better. This may also be assisted by their hosted option. Review Source R Reviewer ### "Great for search, great for analytics" February 16, 2017 5.0 Early Elasticsearch user and enthusiast, it's been my go-to software for all my search and basic analytics requirements. I've used it both for infrastructure / logging needs (with Logstash and Kibana) and applications (search, metrics). Early days were not easy given sparse documentation, but right now it's a great product with lots of material to get you started. Review Source R Reviewer cybersecurity analyst Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "La soluzione free per le piccole aziende" February 17, 2025 3.0 Se fossi una piccola azienda alla ricerca di una soluzione gratuita o economica, sceglierei senza dubbio Elastic Stack. Tuttavia, quando si tratta di gestire grandi quantità di dati, prenderei in considerazione alternative più robuste. Pros Mi piace molto la possibilità di creare dashboard personalizzate con Kibana e visualizzare i dati in modo intuitivo e chiaro. Cons Non mi piace come gestisce grandi quantità di dati, andando spesso in errore. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.