Elastic named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability

For the third consecutive year, Gartner® has named Elastic a Leader in the Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms, based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.

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We believe this recognition reflects why engineering teams choose Elastic: context-rich investigations, native OpenTelemetry support, and high cardinality efficiency at any scale.

  • One platform, many uses: Get full-stack visibility across both Security and Observability without duplicating data or infrastructure, all on the same Elasticsearch Platform.
  • OpenTelemetry, natively: OTel-first and Prometheus-native, Elastic's schema-neutral approach allows you to easily collect logs, metrics, and traces across your stack.
  • Agentic observability: Build and deploy AI agents that investigate and correlate issues using Agent Builder, an open source Agent Skills repo, and an MCP app for observability – available through any AI interface of your choice.
  • Deploy on your terms: Run Elastic where your infrastructure lives: self-hosted, cloud-hosted, or fully managed serverless through major cloud providers.
  • AI and LLM observability: Monitor AI workloads with the same depth you bring to the rest of your stack, including an Amazon Bedrock AgentCore integration.

Highlights

  • See where Elastic is positioned among 20 observability vendors.
  • Understand the evaluation criteria behind the rankings.
  • Explore Elastic's capabilities.

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Disclaimer

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, Gregg Siegfried, Matt Crossley, Padraig Byrne, Andre Bridges, Martin Caren 7 July 2025.

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