2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Observability Platforms report

Learn exactly why Elastic was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms!

In the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Observability Platforms report, dive into the details on how observability vendor offerings performed. Elastic ranked among the five highest scoring vendors across all six Use Cases.

As an essential companion report to the Gartner Magic Quadrant™, this methodology provides deeper insight into providers' product and service offerings by extending the Magic Quadrant analysis. Use this research to further investigate product and service ratings based on key capabilities set to important, differentiating use cases.

Get all the details on the most relevant observability vendors in the industry in this information-packed report, the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Observability Platforms.

Highlights

Critical Capabilities used to evaluate vendors

• Ingest, optimize, and store telemetry
• Interoperability
• Interactive exploration/telemetry
• Observability cost control
• LLM observability
• Generate actionable insights
• Digital experience and business analysis
• Automated response

Observability use cases examined

• Site reliability engineering
• Platform operations
• Software engineering
• Cost optimization
• Business insights
• AI engineering

Additional resources

• 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
• Elastic named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms blog
• Elastic Observability

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Critical Capabilities for Observability Platforms, Matt Crossley, Gregg Siegfried, Padraig Byrne, Andre Bridges, Martin Caren, 8 July 2025.

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