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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
April 2024
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SRIDHAR KARRA
A solution offering stability, good support, and a straightforward setup phase
Antonio_Barros
Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing
It's allowed our company to be more forward-thinking and to consider the future a bit more.
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Pros
"Its diverse set of features available on the cloud is of significant importance.""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.""We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it.""The solution allows us to dig deep into data.""The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization.""The solution has been stable in our usage.""The architecture and system's stability are simple.""It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."

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"The product can scale."

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Cons
"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 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 price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper.""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.""The cost must be made more transparent.""There could be more low-code features included in the product.""The interface could be improved."

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"I can't recall coming across any missing features."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "So far, there are just the standard licensing fees. Several of the components are embedded in the license or are even open source. They're even free depending on what you use, which makes it even more appealing to someone that is discussing pricing of the solution."
  • "There are two types: cloud and SaaS. They charge based on data ingestion, ingest rate, hard retention, and warm retention. I believe it costs around $25,000 annually to ingest 30GB of data daily. That is the SaaS version. There is also a self-managed license where the customer manages their own infrastructure on-prem. In such cases, there are three license tiers that respectively cost $5,000 annually per node, $7,000 per node, and $12,500 per node."
  • "Pricing is one of those situations where the more you use it, the more you pay."
  • "The price of Elastic Observability is expensive."
  • "Users have to pay for some features, like the alerts on different channels, because they are unavailable in different source versions."
  • "One needs to pay for the licenses, and it is an annual subscription model right now."
  • "Since we are a huge company, Elastic Observability is an affordable solution for us."
  • "We will buy a premium license after POC."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Elastic Observability?
    Top Answer: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… more »
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Elastic Observabi...
    Top Answer:I rate the pricing a five out of ten. The product is not that cheap.
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    What needs improvement with Elastic Observability?
    Top Answer:The tool's scalability involves a more complex implementation process. It requires careful calculations to determine the number of nodes needed, the specifications of each node, and the configuration… more »
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    What do you like most about Scout APM?
    Top Answer:The product can scale.
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Scout APM?
    Top Answer:Users pay for licensing on a yearly basis. In general, the pricing is great. It's very reasonable.
    What needs improvement with Scout APM?
    Top Answer:I can't recall coming across any missing features. Its capabilities are pretty broad.
    Ranking
    7th
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    12,577
    Comparisons
    10,415
    Reviews
    16
    Average Words per Review
    445
    Rating
    7.9
    30th
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    674
    Comparisons
    583
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    628
    Rating
    10.0
    Comparisons
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    Overview
    To effectively monitor and gain insights across your distributed systems, you need to have all your observability data in one stack. Break down silos by bringing together application, infrastructure, and user data into a unified solution for end-to-end observability and alerting.
    Rely on the most widely deployed observability platform available, built on the proven Elastic Stack (also known as the ELK Stack) to converge silos, delivering unified visibility and actionable insights.

    Scout APM is an application performance monitoring solution that simplifies the troubleshooting process by enabling developers to discover and repair performance problems before clients ever notice them. Scout APM uses a developer-based UI with real-time alerting and intuitive tracing logic to identify bottlenecks precisely to the source code. This helps to greatly reduce time and effort needed to debug code and results in greater productivity and improved outcomes.

    Scout APM facilitates the ability of developers to break down, discover, and prioritize performance issues such as N+1 queries, latent database queries, memory bloat, and more, and accomplishes these results at a fraction of the cost. Scout APM monitors Elixir, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby.

    Scout APM is built by developers, for developers.

    Scout APM Features

    • 24/7 monitoring: Continuous, consistent monitoring proactively keeps users apprised of any performance deviations. Intuitive dashboards allow users to deep-dive into specific requests, paths, users, and endpoints attached to any performance slowdowns or bloating.

    • Quick and easy analysis: Should a slowdown occur or an increased response time be discovered, users have an easy to use drag-and-drop option to simply and quickly analyze every endpoint and dissect any anomalies. Scout APM will pinpoint the precise user or endpoint(s) responsible for the problem.

    • Intuitive trace logic: Users are able to quickly deep-dive and discover slow requests based on average responses or any/all requests.

    • Crossfilter powerhouse: Crossfilter is a Scout APM feature that allows users to quickly discover similarities with any/all slow requests back to the user or endpoint.

    • Easily discover bottlenecks: With Scout APM, users can easily pinpoint bottlenecks to the exact source code without any additional custom instrumentation. The solution uses a production-safe profiler to fully examine users' custom codes.

    • Developer tracing: Scout APM uses backtraces that are embedded with git blame output so developers of the code can be quickly identified and contacted to resolve issues and concerns immediately.

    • Cost-effective: Scout APM is an open-source solution and offers many flexible pricing options to meet any size business, from small to enterprise level, including custom options. The cost per transaction decreases based on usage and works very efficiently with applications with very high throughput. Scout APM also offers a free trial period and encourages its usage so users can best understand and gauge the level of service needed and determine the best pricing plan to meet organizational needs. Scout APM is considered to be significantly cheaper than many other APM solutions in the marketplace today.

    Reviews from Real Users

    “The solution is stable. It's pretty easy to set up, especially if you have the knowledge base and/or you have a partner assist you. The product can scale. The processes are great. It helps with services and microservices. The product is great for many different industries, including energy, government, finance, and more. It's allowed our company to be more forward-thinking and to consider the future a bit more. ” - Antonio B., Regional Manager LatAm at Splunk

    Sample Customers
    PSCU, Entel, VITAS, Mimecast, Barrett Steel, Butterfield Bank
    Chargify, Synctree, Aptuitiv, Barnes and Noble, Journey, Geosnapshot, Kongregate, PaperTrail, Adobe, SendGrid, Sentry
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company27%
    Manufacturing Company18%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Healthcare Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Healthcare Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Retailer16%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise55%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise50%
    Buyer's Guide
    Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    April 2024
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    Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 30th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while Scout APM is rated 10.0. 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 Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Sentry and Azure Monitor, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Prometheus and Grafana.

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