We performed a comparison between AppDynamics 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: Elastic Observability offers ease of deployment, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness compared to AppDynamics' wider range of features. Despite having a steep learning curve, Elastic Observability offers machine learning and a comprehensive toolset at a lower price point. Elastic Observability is a good choice for those seeking a flexible and cost-effective observability solution.
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"I find troubleshooting is quicker because we can drill down into the end points and see which endpoints are getting critical. Visibility-wise, the micro details are easy to find."
"It is a stable solution."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server."
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability."
"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."
"The architecture and system's stability are simple."
"For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool ."
"Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"It has always been a stable solution."
"An area that has room for improvement on the CR and ERP would be the addition of monitoring of the internal solution. For example, you can monitor the day-to-day and everything in the transactions with AppDynamics, but there's also a lot going on in the kernel itself that you cannot monitor. The automation needs to improve as well. As it stands, a lot of customization needs to happen before you can use AppDynamics."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"The end-user experience is not really good because we can't catch all of the transactions. We only can catch the full stack of flow transactions, but I think that this is caused by the technology they use. If they will catch every transaction, it will cause a very big load on the performance of applications. The monitoring of all transactions needs improvement."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"This solution is expensive."
"As per my experience, the drill-down feature can be improved at the class level."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence and machine learning brought in to monitor the statement and payment sum issues we have."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"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."
"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 needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"There could be more low-code features included in the product."
"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"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."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Elastic Observability is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. Elastic Observability report.
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