We performed a comparison between Elastic Search and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Elastic, IBM, OpenText and others in Indexing and Search."I like how it allows us to connect to Kafka and get this data in a document format very easily. Elasticsearch is very fast when you do text-based searches of documents. That area is very good, and the search is very good."
"You have dashboards, it is visual, there are maps, you can create canvases. It's more visual than anything that I've ever used."
"The initial installation and setup were straightforward."
"It gives us the possibility to store and query this data and also do this efficiently and securely and without delays."
"The observability is the best available because it provides granular insights that identify reasons for defects."
"I value the feature that allows me to share the dashboards to different people with different levels of access."
"The flexibility and the support for diverse languages that it provides for searching the database are most valuable. We can use different languages to query the database."
"Implementing the main requirements regarding my support portal."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
"There are challenges with performance management and scalability."
"Both the graph feature and the reporting feature are a little bit lacking. The alerting also needs to be improved."
"They should improve its documentation. Their official documentation is not very informative. They can also improve their technical support. They don't help you much with the customized stuff. They also need to add more visuals. Currently, they have line charts, bar charts, and things like that, and they can add more types of visuals. They should also improve the alerts. They are not very simple to use and are a bit complex. They could add more options to the alerting system."
"There is a lack of technical people to develop, implement and optimize equipment operation and web queries."
"We see the need for some improvements with Elasticsearch. We would like the Elasticsearch package to include training lessons for our staff."
"Technical support should be faster."
"The price could be better. Kibana has some limitations in terms of the tablet to view event logs. I also have a high volume of data. On the initialization part, if you chose Kibana, you'll have some limitations. Kibana was primarily proposed as a log data reviewer to build applications to the viewer log data using Kibana. Then it became a virtualization tool, but it still has limitations from a developer's point of view."
"The solution's integration and configuration are not easy. Not many people know exactly what to do."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
Elastic Search is ranked 1st in Indexing and Search with 59 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Elastic Search is rated 8.2, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Search writes "Played a crucial role in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Pinecone, Azure Search and Amazon Kendra, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability.
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