We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and Instana Dynamic APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Instana Dynamic APM offers real-time monitoring with visually appealing dashboards and dynamic detection capabilities. Its setup process is easy and its pricing is reasonable. Elastic Observability has more features, including machine learning, but has a complex setup process, a steep learning curve, and a higher price point. Users have identified more areas for improvement in Elastic Observability compared to Instana Dynamic APM.
"Good design and easy to use once implemented."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"The ability to ensure that the data is searchable and maintainable is highly valuable for our purposes."
"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."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"It is a stable solution."
"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."
"The price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper."
"Elastic Observability needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
"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."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
"The interface could be improved."
"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"We should be able to go back to scenarios during or before the issue. There should be something like a history playback. Such a feature or functionality would be good."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"Many managers, as well as our customers, used to ask for reports, such as "top X number of queries that are slow," or "top pages that have the highest number of issues." This is something that can be improved by Instana. Currently, they don't have that kind of reporting available out-of-the-box."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 23rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4. 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 Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, AppDynamics and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, IBM Application Performance Management and Datadog. See our Elastic Observability vs. Instana Dynamic APM report.
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