We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor 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: Azure Monitor has better integration with Microsoft technologies, more out-of-the-box functionalities, lower cost, and better customer support. Elastic Observability is noted for its machine learning and custom development capabilities, but has a steep learning curve, lacks comprehensive visualization and metrics, and could improve pricing. Overall, Azure Monitor is seen as a more robust and stable product that offers a centralized location for resource monitoring.
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"One of the most useful aspects of this solution is the out-of-the-box functionality on all areas, especially on Application Insights, zero instrumentation, and artificial intelligence for event correlation."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"You can scale the product."
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"Good design and easy to use once implemented."
"It has always been a stable solution."
"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."
"Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Its diverse set of features available on the cloud is of significant importance."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"The ability to ensure that the data is searchable and maintainable is highly valuable for our purposes."
"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"Integration with third-party tools from other vendors than Azure is more time-consuming"
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"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."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"Elastic Observability needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"The cost must be made more transparent."
"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."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 reviews while Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Elastic Observability is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and AWS X-Ray, whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Sentry, AppDynamics and Grafana. See our Azure Monitor vs. Elastic Observability report.
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