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.
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The most valuable features of Azure Monitor are the login analytics workspace and we can write any kind of custom queries in order to receive the data that is inserted into the login analytics workspace, diagnostic settings, et cetera."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"Good design and easy to use once implemented."
"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."
"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."
"For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool ."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"The architecture and system's stability are simple."
"I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"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 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."
"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."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"Elastic APM's visualization is not that great compared to other tools. It's number of metrics is very low."
"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."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 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, Prometheus, Sentry and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Datadog and Sentry. See our Azure Monitor vs. Elastic Observability report.
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