We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Elastic Observability 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 ease of deployment, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness compared to AppDynamics' wider range of features. Despite having a steep learning curve, Elastic Observability offers machine learning and a comprehensive toolset at a lower price point. Elastic Observability is a good choice for those seeking a flexible and cost-effective observability solution.
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"The real user monitoring helps us evaluate our customers' real experiences, which is valuable as an eCommerce company."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"We previously had an operations team continuously monitoring applications. Now, they just have set things up and our developers can monitor, view, and act on them, accordingly."
"Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"The ability to ensure that the data is searchable and maintainable is highly valuable for our purposes."
"I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"I’d like to see better out-of-the-box visual reporting so that we can roll this up to management."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"When you have high stress of visits I do not know if you are more stress because of the amount of visits or because you have to wait eternal 60 seconds to find out it things are going well or you already have mess."
"More native support for other hardware is needed because having to install various extensions and perform extra setup for different devices is really challenging, and not as easy or straightforward as it is in other products."
"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 price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"There could be more low-code features included in the product."
"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 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."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Elastic Observability is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry and Grafana. See our AppDynamics vs. Elastic Observability report.
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