We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Elastic Observability is superior to WhatsUp Gold in terms of features and design, although it has a higher learning curve and setup difficulty. The pricing is reasonable and cost-effective for organizations. WhatsUp Gold is stable and easy to set up, but lacks some features and may have limited certified engineer availability in certain countries. Overall, Elastic Observability is a more appealing and cost-efficient choice for application performance monitoring.
"The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle."
"Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool ."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"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 threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"It is stable."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"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 cost must be made more transparent."
"The auto-discovery isn't nearly as good. That's a big portion of it. When you drop the agent onto the JVM and you're trying to figure things out, having to go through and manually do all that is cumbersome."
"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."
"The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"The interface needs some work."
Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry and AppDynamics, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Elastic Observability vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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