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Kibana (Elastic): sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Kibana is the user interface for data stored in Elasticsearch, part of the Elastic Stack. Users search and filter data, build dashboards with charts, maps and tables, run machine-learning jobs for anomaly detection, and define alert rules that trigger integrations such as Slack or PagerDuty. It is used for observability, security analytics and enterprise search. Kibana can be run self-managed on your own servers, or consumed through Elastic Cloud, which is hosted on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.

Kibana is developed by Elastic N.V., a public company organised under Dutch law with its headquarters in Amsterdam and an operational headquarters in San Francisco; its shares trade on the NYSE. Elastic announced that Kibana and Elasticsearch are available under the AGPL as an additional licence option next to the Elastic License 2.0 and SSPL. For a European organisation, self-managed deployment keeps data on its own infrastructure, while Elastic Cloud runs on US hyperscalers, so the chosen cloud provider and region matter for jurisdiction.

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Sovereignty score

82 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-690
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026

Headquarters	NL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Business Intelligence
Type	Product
Website	elastic.co ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Kibana (Elastic)

The European alternatives to Kibana (Elastic) come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Kibana (Elastic)

Kibana (Elastic) is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Kibana (Elastic) hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Kibana (Elastic) is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Kibana (Elastic) together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Kibana (Elastic)?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Kibana (Elastic) include Bissantz (DeltaMaster), Board International and RIB BI+ (formerly datapine). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Kibana (Elastic)?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Kibana (Elastic) include Knowage. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Kibana (Elastic) GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Kibana (Elastic) is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Kibana (Elastic) an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 9, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence: Dashboards, management reporting, self-service BI and embedded analytics on business data. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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