We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Grafana is the preferred choice over Elastic Observability, as it is user-friendly, has flexible integration with other tools, and has customizable dashboards. Grafana has a more accessible interface and efficient customer service, with moderate pricing. Elastic Observability has more features but needs improvements in areas such as machine learning, reporting, and documentation.
"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization."
"The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle."
"It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"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."
"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."
"It has always been a stable solution."
"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."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"We like the alert features."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"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."
"Elastic APM's visualization is not that great compared to other tools. It's number of metrics is very low."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."
"The price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"The solution should include online support."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while Grafana is rated 8.0. 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 Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor and Zabbix, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Honeycomb.io. See our Elastic Observability vs. Grafana report.
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