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."
"It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"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."
"For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool ."
"The architecture and system's stability are simple."
"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 price is very less expensive compared to the other solutions."
"The Elastic User Interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. You need to have some Javascript knowledge. We need that knowledge to develop new custom tests."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"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 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."
"If we had some pre-defined templates for observability that we could start using right away after deploying it – instead of having to build or to change some of the dashboards – that would be helpful."
"Elastic Observability needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 31st 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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