We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Grafana is the preferred choice over Elastic Observability, as it is user-friendly, has flexible integration with other tools, and has customizable dashboards. Grafana has a more accessible interface and efficient customer service, with moderate pricing. Elastic Observability has more features but needs improvements in areas such as machine learning, reporting, and documentation.
"We use AppDynamics and Elastic. The reason why we're using Elastic APM is because of the license count. It's very favorable compared to AppDynamics. It's inexpensive; it's economical."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"Elastic Observability significantly improves incident response time by providing quick access to logs and data across various sources. For instance, searching for specific keywords in logs spanning over a month from multiple data sources can be completed within seconds."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"We like the alert features."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"There could be more low-code features included in the product."
"Elastic Observability needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"They need more skills in the market. There are not enough skills in the market. It is not pervasive enough on the market, in my opinion. In other words, there isn't a big enough user base."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before."
"Elastic Observability is difficult to use. There are only three options for customization but this can be difficult for our use case. We do not have other options to choose the metrics shown, such as CPU or memory usage."
"The formatting could be better."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor and Zabbix, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Honeycomb.io. See our Elastic Observability vs. Grafana report.
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