Elastic Observability Primary Use Case

Subramani K - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at HCL Technologies

Elastic Observability can address multiple use cases, including monitoring, visibility, and reporting. It is integrated with a visualization product called Kibana. It's called ELK, which stands for Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. Kibana provides visualization, and the others are security modules. SIEM module is there. 

We use it extensively for reporting, pulling metrics, logs, traces, events, etc. from different systems. Everything is aggregated in Elastic and visualized in Kibana. We use Logstash for ETL — extract, transform and load. We extract the data from the source, transform it—data massaging, data mixing, filters, etc. —and send it to Elasticsearch in the format we need.

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AR
Managing Director at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I use this product in projects that we do for other companies. We use the most updated version of the solution.

We're using Elastic to get information for several points of observability and several projects and solutions. We're using it broadly in lots of systems. For each solution, we're defining the observability points and the data we want to capture in each point. We're deploying Elastic as the tool to capture the data in each of these points in these transactions, and then putting that in the database. It allows us to analyze not only the number of transactions and quantities, but also the business content of each payload of the transactions in order to have business KPIs, not just technical KPIs. We have more than 300 data capture points in several systems.

This has been used by an IO monitoring team. We have two types of users: technical guys that are monitoring the stability of the systems where this tool is used, to see if we are having issues on the operation. This is the IO management team, and there are around 40 users. The second category is people related to business that are actually using this to capture business information, like the amount of transactions, credit sales, the average value of each operation, and things like that. In that sense, there are about 100 people looking at business dashboards. 

The use is much heavier with the first group. They are tuning systems and deploying new data capture points, etc. Although there are more people in the second group, they are using it more to get the information and use it for tech and business decisions, but they are not heavy users in that sense.

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SRIDHAR KARRA - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Operating Officer at Integra Micro Software Services, Bangalore

We use Elastic Observability for APM, basically. Right now, it is used only for application performance monitoring. In short, it is only the APM module that Observability is looked upon for by all our customers.

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Principal Reliability Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution to collect logs. It also helps us with application performance monitoring. We use it for centralized logs and visualizing them with Grafana.

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Rami Alaa - PeerSpot reviewer
SRE at Thiqah Business Services

It offers end-to-end observability, the capability of monitoring and analyzing the entire stack, from the user experience to the low-level infrastructure. It enables troubleshooting and debugging by allowing us to trace issues through the entire system.

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NH
Data Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We are using Elastic Observability for monitoring.

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SM
Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use it to handle significant volumes of data sourced from various network monitoring protocols like NetFlow and SNMP.

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AA
Chief Revenue Officer at a media company with 11-50 employees

As we have access to all the features offered by Elastic Observability, we utilize it for APM, to provide support and manage our infrastructure, and even leverage it for our CRM needs. 

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MN
DevOps consultant at Africa4Data

We use Elastic Observability for system monitoring, server monitoring, and application monitoring. I'm working on a project wherein I use the solution for capacity planning.

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Enio Moraes - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We use the product to monitor various data pipelines.

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AB
Lead Software Engineer at Glastechnische Industrie Peter LISEC GmbH

We use the product to monitor our infrastructure. 

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Erika Loots - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps engineer at Telesure Investment Holdings (TIH)

We usually use the solution in our production environment to monitor production on Rancher. I'm a DevOps engineer.

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RT
Technical Consultant at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Elastic APM is a kind of log aggregation tool and we're using it for that purpose. 

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SJ
Enterprise Monitoring / Data Protection Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it for monitoring the application performance and development.

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Samuel Schubert - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead Transformation at rku.it GmbH

Our clients use the product for monitoring and alerting.

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MC
Line Technical Agent at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The primary use case for our organization is handling login events. We also utilize it for some big data use cases.

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AG
SDE-IV at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We basically use Elastic APM for our metrics to look at our performance. Whenever people say that there's a latency of more than a certain amount, then we just open this APM and see why exactly the latency is high. We can choose that data set, and then we can go deeper. 

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MS
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using Elastic APM primarily for central logging.

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