We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and Prometheus 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 offers comprehensive features, machine learning capabilities, and can handle custom development. In contrast, Prometheus lacks user-friendly query language, visualization tools, and customer support, even though it is flexible and has integration capabilities. Elastic Observability is cost-effective and has helped reduce incidents and overheads, while Prometheus is free but lacks some essential features. Ultimately, Elastic Observability is a more complete and economical option for application performance monitoring.
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability."
"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."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"Its diverse set of features available on the cloud is of significant importance."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The sky is the limit because the solution is a flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need to monitor applications."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"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."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"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."
"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."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. 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 Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor and Sentry, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray. See our Elastic Observability vs. Prometheus report.
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