Is Managing Your Elastic Cloud Bill a Full-Time Job?

Daily Compromises, Index Anxiety, and Shocking Monthly Bills

Index Maintenance

"Elastic Cloud is not 'managed', it's just hosted."

— Principal SRE

"I'm still designing the ILM policies and mapping templates."

— DevOps Architect

Compromises

"Need to raise a ticket if you want to search more than 7 days of logs from the 'cold' tier. It's a huge bottleneck."

— SRE Lead

"We have so much red tape around adding new logs and high cardinality fields, that I gave up."

— Engineering Manager

Expensive

"Our Elastic Cloud bill doubles if we have a busy month. It's impossible to budget for."

— Observability Lead

"We had to cut our log retention from 90 days to 14."

— VP of Engineering

Get a Platform That's 3x Cheaper with the same UI

Oodle Logs are managed, fast, and AI-powered.

Oodle delivers a faster, more efficient experience on a modern serverless, columnar architecture, all through the familiar OpenSearch UI. Stop managing indices and start saving—get a complete Logs, Metrics, and APM platform for a fraction of the cost.

Truly Managed

No Index Management
No Performance Tuning
Reclaim your engineering time

Fast

Blazing-fast queries
No tiered storage
Serverless architecture eliminates bottlenecks

AI-powered

Automatic Anomaly Detection
AI-powered Root Cause insights for every alert
Correlations between Metrics, Logs & APM

Cost Efficient

5x cheaper. No catch
Predictable, all-inclusive pricing
Affordable retention

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Oodle AI vs. Elastic Cloud: Feature Deep Dive

Feature Dimension	Oodle AI	Elastic Cloud	Oodle Advantage
UI & User Experience	✅ Intuitive OpenSearch UI	✅ Intuitive OpenSearch UI	Both use the same familiar OpenSearch UI you love.
Management & Operations	✅ Truly Managed	🟠 Hosted, Not Managed	Oodle eliminates all operational burden. Elastic Cloud still requires index management, ILM policies, and performance tuning.
Total Cost of Ownership	3x Cheaper Than Elastic Cloud	High & Unpredictable	Oodle's price is often 3x lower than Elastic Cloud, with predictable pricing and no hidden costs.
High-Cardinality Handling	✅ Performant by Design	❌ Major Performance Risk	Oodle's columnar architecture handles this natively. With Elastic Cloud, high cardinality can crash your cluster.
Query Performance	✅ Consistently Fast (<3s p99)	🟠 Depends on Tuning & Scale	Get expert-level performance out of the box without becoming a full-time Elasticsearch admin.
Security & Upgrades	✅ Automatic & Seamless	🟠 Manual & High-Risk	Oodle handles all security patching and version upgrades with zero downtime. For Elastic Cloud, this requires careful planning.
Retention & Storage	✅ Affordable Retention	❌ Expensive Tiered Storage	Oodle's S3-native architecture provides affordable retention. Elastic Cloud charges premium rates for cold storage.
AI-driven Insights	✅ 1-Click Incident Diagnosis	❌ Manual Exploration	Oodle's 1-click diagnosis reduces MTTR by finding correlations. Elastic Cloud requires manual, time-consuming investigation.

Simple, Predictable Pricing

Oodle's transparent model typically saves teams 3x compared to Elastic Cloud.

Monthly Costs in Observability

2,000,000

active time series / hour

per 1k metrics / month^*

$4,000

per month

*Assumptions: 1 data sample every 30 seconds, 90d retention

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions from teams using Elastic Cloud.

We're already using Elastic Cloud. Why switch?

Elastic Cloud is just hosted Elasticsearch—you're still managing indices, ILM policies, and performance tuning. Oodle is truly managed, eliminating all operational overhead while providing the same familiar OpenSearch UI at 3x lower cost.

How can Oodle be cheaper than Elastic Cloud?

Elastic Cloud's pricing model is designed to maximize revenue through complex tiered storage and per-node pricing. Oodle's serverless, S3-native architecture is fundamentally more cost-efficient, and we pass those savings directly to you.

We have compliance requirements that require us to stay with Elastic.

Oodle is SOC 2 Type II compliant and can meet most enterprise compliance requirements. If you absolutely need to stay with Elastic, we can discuss deployment options that work within your constraints.

Start Saving 3x in Minutes

A simple, risk-free path to better performance and lower costs.

Sign up & dual write

Add Oodle as a second destination for your logs.

Your Elastic Cloud setup continues. No risk.

Migrate Dashboards

1-click migration of all dashboards and alerts.

See the speed and cost savings for yourself.

Decommission & Save

Once you're confident, decommission your Elastic Cloud instance.

Watch your bill—drop.

We provide white-glove migration support for all customers to ensure a smooth, zero-disruption transition.

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