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.
"Elastic APM has plenty of features, such as the Elastic server for Kibana and many additional plugins. It's a comprehensive tool when used as a logging platform."
"Its diverse set of features available on the cloud is of significant importance."
"The architecture and system's stability are simple."
"It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"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."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"Elastic APM's visualization is not that great compared to other tools. It's number of metrics is very low."
"The tool's scalability involves a more complex implementation process. It requires careful calculations to determine the number of nodes needed, the specifications of each node, and the configuration of hot, warm, and cold zones for data storage. Additionally, managing log retention policies adds further complexity. The solution's pricing also needs to be cheaper."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"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."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"The solution should include online support."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
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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