We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and Prometheus 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 comprehensive features, machine learning capabilities, and can handle custom development. In contrast, Prometheus lacks user-friendly query language, visualization tools, and customer support, even though it is flexible and has integration capabilities. Elastic Observability is cost-effective and has helped reduce incidents and overheads, while Prometheus is free but lacks some essential features. Ultimately, Elastic Observability is a more complete and economical option for application performance monitoring.
"The architecture and system's stability are simple."
"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 over a month from multiple data sources can be completed within seconds."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool ."
"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"The price is very less expensive compared to the other solutions."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"It is an efficient solution."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"There could be more low-code features included in the product."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"The cost must be made more transparent."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"They need more skills in the market. There are not enough skills in the market. It is not pervasive enough on the market, in my opinion. In other words, there isn't a big enough user base."
"Elastic Observability needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"If you want to collect details of metrics, you should be able to write a query for it directly. I want the product to offer better queries for the metrics."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. 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 Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Datadog and Azure Monitor, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray. See our Elastic Observability vs. Prometheus report.
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