specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Elastic Observability
providerId: elastic-observability
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-08-29'
generated: '2026-08-29'
method: searched
source: https://www.elastic.co/pricing/serverless-observability
docs:
- https://www.elastic.co/pricing/serverless-observability
- https://www.elastic.co/pricing
replaces: >-
  A bulk-sweep scaffold dated 2026-05-04 that invented a Free / Professional / Enterprise ladder
  with 1,000 and 100,000 request quotas and "TBD" prices. Elastic does not price this product per
  API request at all — it prices per GB ingested, retained and egressed — so every number in that
  scaffold was wrong in kind, not just in value. Replaced wholesale on 2026-08-29.
tags:
- AIOps
- Observability
description: >-
  Elastic Observability Serverless pricing, read from Elastic's published pricing page. Billing is
  usage-based per GB rather than per API call, which is why no request quota or per-request overage
  appears below. Elastic Cloud Hosted prices on provisioned resources and self-managed licenses per
  node/RAM; both are separate ladders from the serverless one recorded here.
billing_model: usage-based (per GB ingested, retained, and egressed)
currency: USD
deployment_models:
- name: Serverless
  basis: Usage based pricing. Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid.
  priced_here: true
- name: Hosted
  basis: Resource based pricing. Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid.
  priced_here: false
- name: Self-managed
  basis: Licensing based on number of nodes and used RAM.
  priced_here: false
plans:
- id: elastic-observability-logs-essentials
  name: Logs Essentials
  type: paid
  description: >-
    Entry serverless Observability project tier. Ad hoc analysis, out-of-the-box and custom
    dashboards, integrations, alerts and notifications.
  entries:
  - label: Ingest — logs, traces, synthetics, RUM
    name: ingest_logs
    type: metered
    metric: gb_ingested
    price: '0.07'
    price_qualifier: as low as
    unit: 1 GB
    currency: USD
    timeFrame: month
  - label: Ingest — metrics
    name: ingest_metrics
    type: metered
    metric: gb_ingested
    price: '0.07'
    price_qualifier: as low as
    unit: 1 GB
    currency: USD
    timeFrame: month
  - label: Retention — logs, traces, synthetics, RUM
    name: retention_logs
    type: metered
    metric: gb_retained
    price: '0.017'
    price_qualifier: as low as
    unit: 1 GB
    currency: USD
    timeFrame: month
  - label: Retention — metrics
    name: retention_metrics
    type: metered
    metric: gb_retained
    price: '0.017'
    price_qualifier: as low as
    unit: 1 GB
    currency: USD
    timeFrame: month
  - label: Egress
    name: egress
    type: metered
    metric: gb_egress
    price: '0.05'
    unit: 1 GB
    currency: USD
    timeFrame: month
    included: 50 GB free per month
  elements:
  - name: Ad hoc analysis
  - name: Out-of-the-box and custom dashboards
  - name: Integrations
  - name: Alerts and notifications
- id: elastic-observability-complete
  name: Complete
  type: paid
  recommended: true
  description: >-
    Everything in Logs Essentials plus SLOs, machine learning, AI pipelines, workflows and private
    connectivity.
  entries:
  - label: Ingest — logs, traces, synthetics, RUM
    name: ingest_logs
    type: metered
    metric: gb_ingested
    price: '0.09'
    price_qualifier: as low as
    unit: 1 GB
    currency: USD
    timeFrame: month
  - label: Ingest — metrics
    name: ingest_metrics
    type: metered
    metric: gb_ingested
    price: '0.023'
    unit: 1 GB
    currency: USD
    timeFrame: month
  - label: Retention — logs, traces, synthetics, RUM
    name: retention_logs
    type: metered
    metric: gb_retained
    price: '0.019'
    unit: 1 GB
    currency: USD
    timeFrame: month
  - label: Retention — metrics
    name: retention_metrics
    type: metered
    metric: gb_retained
    price: '0.005'
    unit: 1 GB
    currency: USD
    timeFrame: month
  - label: Egress
    name: egress
    type: metered
    metric: gb_egress
    price: '0.05'
    unit: 1 GB
    currency: USD
    timeFrame: month
    included: 50 GB free per month
  elements:
  - name: Everything in Logs Essentials
  - name: SLOs
  - name: Machine learning
  - name: AI pipelines
  - name: Workflows
  - name: Private connectivity
plan_count: 2
sla:
  note: >-
    Elastic publishes a 99.95% Monthly Uptime SLA for the Platinum and Enterprise subscription
    tiers. Those tier names belong to the Elastic Cloud Hosted / support ladder, not to the two
    serverless Observability tiers above, and Elastic does not print their prices on
    https://www.elastic.co/pricing — recorded as an unpriced fact rather than folded into a tier.
trial:
  offered: true
  length: not stated on https://www.elastic.co/pricing
  cta: Start free trial
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com