Is Your ELK Stack a Full-Time Job?

Endless JVM Tuning, Shard Rebalancing, and Indexing Nightmares

Operational Overhead

"We have an 8-page runbook just for upgrading our Elasticsearch cluster."

— Head of Platform

"We have a full-time index manager wrestling with complex Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) policies."

— SRE Lead

Expensive

"We have a dedicated engineering team just to manage our ELK stack."

— VP of Engineering

"Our AWS bill for the high-RAM, high-IOPS instances needed to run Elasticsearch is staggering."

— FinOps Director

Unreliable

"Logstash buckled under a traffic spike and we lost the most critical logs. We were debugging blind."

— DevOps Architect

"I get more alerts for Elastic than for our actual product. It's absurd."

— SRE

Keep the UI You Love. Ditch the Operational Headache.

Oodle Logs are managed, efficient, and intelligent.

Oodle delivers a superior experience through a columnar architecture and the familiar OpenSearch UI, augmented with powerful AI features. Get a platform that's not just managed, but truly intelligent.

Zero Operational Overhead

No Index Management
Reclaim your engineering team
Eliminate cluster management

Fast

Blazing fast queries
AI-powered caching
Serverless architecture eliminates bottlenecks

AI-powered

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

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Oodle AI vs. Self-Hosted ELK: Feature Deep Dive

Feature Dimension	Oodle AI	Self-Hosted ELK	Oodle Advantage
User Interface (UI)	✅ Managed OpenSearch UI	🟠 Self-Hosted Kibana	Identical user experience. Oodle gives you the UI you love, with zero management.
AI-Powered Insights	✅ Built-in & Automated	❌ Manual / 3rd Party	Go beyond search with proactive anomaly detection and root cause analysis.
Index Management	✅ Zero	❌ Manual & Complex	No more templates, mappings, or ILM policies. It just works.
Management Overhead	✅ Zero	❌ Extremely High	No more JVM tuning, scaling, or upgrade planning with Oodle.
Total Cost of Ownership	Predictable SaaS Fee	High: Infra + Overprovisioning + Engineering	Oodle is consistently cheaper than the TCO of ELK.
Availability & Reliability	✅ High (Managed SLA)	🟠 Depends on Your Team's Efforts	Oodle is architected for uptime. With ELK, you build and maintain it yourself.
Resource Efficiency	✅ Hyper-Efficient	❌ Resource Intensive	Oodle's columnar architecture is fundamentally more efficient than Elasticsearch's inverted index approach.
Upgrades	✅ Automatic & Zero-Downtime	❌ Manual & High-Risk	Say goodbye to weekend upgrade maintenance windows.
Expert Support	✅ Included 24/7	❌ Community Forums	Get help from the experts who built the platform.

Simple, Predictable Pricing

Oodle's transparent model typically saves teams 5x compared to the complex billing of Elastic Cloud.

Component	Oodle AI
Ingestion	$0.25 / GB / month
Retention	30d (upto 1 year)
Log-based Metrics	$0.06/metric/month
Users	Included
Queries	Included*
Dashboards	Included*
Alerting	Included*

*Generous tiers with soft limits.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions from teams running their own ELK stack.

We love our Kibana dashboards. Will we have to rebuild everything?

No! This is the best part. Oodle uses the OpenSearch UI, which is a fork of Kibana. The look, feel, and functionality are nearly identical. Your team will feel at home on day one with virtually zero retraining.

Is a managed service really cheaper than running our own ELK stack?

Almost always. Calculate the cost of your high-RAM/SSD instances, the buffer for overprovisioning, and the fully-loaded salary of the engineers managing the cluster. You'll find that Oodle's predictable fee is significantly less than your actual TCO, and that's before accounting for the cost of downtime.

What about the AI features? Are they just another black box?

Not at all. Our AI-powered insights are designed for transparency. Anomaly detection shows you the exact metric and logs that triggered the alert. The root cause summary presents a clear, human-readable narrative of correlated events, so you can validate the findings and get to the 'why' faster.

Get Started with Oodle AI in Minutes

Simple OpenSearch UI. Faster queries. No lock-in.

Sign-Up

Fill the logs onboarding form.

Submit Form (< 5min)

Configure Ingestion

Use an agent (Fluentd, Vector, Fluentbit, OTel) or stream via Kinesis Firehose.

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Explore & Analyze

Logs are ready for intuitive exploration and insights.

We also provide white-glove support for enterprise customers.

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