Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Grafana Tempo
Grafana Tempo clearly comes out ahead of Elastic APM on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. Grafana Tempo has a free tier; Elastic APM does not.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | hybrid | hybrid |
| Company | Elastic | Grafana Labs |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | - |
| Integration | - | - |
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | DevelopmentSaaS & Cloud | Development |
| Categories | observability-apm | observability-apm |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
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| Feature | elastic-apm | grafana-tempo |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Elastic Stack Security | ||
| 10K Active Series Metrics | ||
| Advanced Observability Features (E.G., Service Maps, Slos) | ||
| 14-Day Retention | ||
| Advanced Reporting | ||
| 3 Active Users | ||
| Advanced Workflow Automation | ||
| 50Gb Logs | ||
| Ai Assistant | ||
| 50Gb Traces | ||
| Alerting | ||
| 8X5 Email Support | ||
| Basic Apm | ||
| 99.5% Uptime Sla | ||
| Basic Security | ||
| Advanced Security Features (Saml, Ldap) | ||
| Core Elastic Stack Features | ||
| Compatible With Jaeger, Zipkin, And Opentelemetry | ||
| Cross-Cluster Replication | ||
| Compliance Adherence (E.G., Federal Cloud) | ||
| Elastic Maps Server | ||
| Custom Retention | ||
| Enhanced Security Workflows | ||
| Dedicated Support | ||
| Everything In Gold | ||
| Deep Integration With Grafana, Prometheus, And Loki | ||
| Everything In Platinum | ||
| High-Scale Distributed Tracing Backend | ||
| Everything In Standard | ||
| Object Storage Dependency |
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On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, Grafana Tempo comes out ahead overall, though Elastic APM can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
Grafana Tempo offers a free tier; Elastic APM does not currently list one.
