Elastic Introduces Logs Essentials: Affordable Cloud Log Analytics for Enhanced SEO Performance.

Elastic has announced the launch of Logs Essentials, a new serverless log analytics tier available within Elastic Cloud Serverless, specifically designed for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and developers. Logs Essentials is positioned as a cost-effective service that provides essential log ingestion, searching, visualisation, and alerting capabilities without the need for teams to manage the underlying infrastructure. Built on the same stateless architecture as Elastic Observability, this solution offers automatic scaling and high availability, ensuring that operational overhead is minimised.

The product enables users to conduct fast and precise log analytics through features such as filters, pattern matching, alerting, rich visualisations, and ES|QL, Elastic’s piped query language. According to Elastic, these features are tailored to assist SREs in quickly identifying and resolving issues, thereby enhancing the efficiency of their response to operational incidents. Santosh Krishnan, General Manager of Observability & Security at Elastic, emphasised the need for a hassle-free, scalable logging solution that allows SREs to focus on operational insights rather than infrastructure management. Logs Essentials serves as an accessible entry point for teams requiring core log analytics capabilities, with an upgrade path available to Elastic Observability Complete for those needing more advanced features. 

Categories: Log Analytics, Serverless Solutions, Operational Insights 

Tags: Logs Essentials, Serverless, Log Analytics, SREs, Elastic Cloud, Visualisation, Alerting, Scalability, Operational Insights, Pricing