We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and IBM Instana Observability based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."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."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"The price is very less expensive compared to the other solutions."
"The solution has a one-second resolution, giving you the status of your application within one second."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"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 improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
"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."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"There could be more low-code features included in the product."
"The solution should include log management and improve reporting and integration with Cognos."
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Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while IBM Instana Observability is ranked 76th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while IBM Instana Observability is rated 8.0. 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 IBM Instana Observability writes "Used for observability and application performance management". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, AppDynamics and Sentry, whereas IBM Instana Observability is most compared with .
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