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The Business Case for Switching from the ELK Stack

Last year we published a popular paper on how to calculate the true cost of an Elasticsearch, or ELK (for Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack environment. The paper helps readers calculate their overall annual cost of ownership for their ELK environment, and reveals how the cost burden of ELK is much higher than anticipated for most customers. That paper clearly hit a nerve — it’s been, by far, our most downloaded piece of content.