We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and IBM Instana Observability based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"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 architecture and system's stability are simple."
"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization."
"The ability to ensure that the data is searchable and maintainable is highly valuable for our purposes."
"Good design and easy to use once implemented."
"For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool ."
"The solution has a one-second resolution, giving you the status of your application within one second."
"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before."
"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."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"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."
"Elastic Observability is an excellent product for monitoring and visibility, but it lacks predictive analytics. Most solutions are aligned with the AIOps requirements, but this piece is missing in Elastic and should be included."
"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."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"The solution should include log management and improve reporting and integration with Cognos."
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Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while IBM Instana Observability is ranked 51st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while IBM Instana Observability 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 IBM Instana Observability writes "Used for observability and application performance management". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry and AppDynamics, whereas IBM Instana Observability is most compared with .
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