We performed a comparison between Elastic Search and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Elastic, IBM, Luigi's Box and others in Indexing and Search."The AI-based attribute tagging is a valuable feature."
"The search speed is most valuable and important."
"I really like the visualization that you can do within it. That's really handy. Product-wise, it is a very good and stable product."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The products comes with REST APIs."
"Implementing the main requirements regarding my support portal."
"The most valuable features are the ease and speed of the setup."
"The initial installation and setup were straightforward."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The solution has good features."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"Elastic Search needs to improve its technical support. It should be customer-friendly and have good support."
"The metadata gets stored along with indexes and isn't queryable."
"There is an index issue in which the data starts to crash as it increases."
"Machine learning on search needs improvement."
"The GUI is the part of the program which has the most room for improvement."
"The solution's integration and configuration are not easy. Not many people know exactly what to do."
"The different applications need to be individually deployed."
"They could improve some of the platform's infrastructure management capabilities."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
Elastic Search is ranked 1st in Indexing and Search with 59 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Elastic Search is rated 8.2, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Search writes "Played a crucial role in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Pinecone, Azure Search and Amazon Kendra, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace.
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