We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and Alluvio Aternity 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 more comprehensive features such as machine learning and custom development. Although Alluvio Aternity provides valuable data on machine health and performance, Elastic Observability offers better auto-discovery, more comprehensive visualization and metrics, improved control over backend calls, more AI integration, pre-defined templates for observability, and predictive analytics. Elastic Observability has a more cost-effective pricing model and has helped organizations achieve their objectives at a lower price despite having a steeper learning curve.
"Aternity's Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) has been a game changer for us. While knowing your own metrics is nice, if you don't know how you compare to others or what the numbers should be, then it doesn't tell you much. This solution puts that into context (if we are doing better than others or worse), which helps us prioritize where we want to focus and do improvements versus that's just how slow it's supposed to be. It's also great in communicating what we are doing and why we're doing it to our IT leadership teams, by saying, while we're pretty far behind others in certain categories, the time and changes for our prioritizations are justified."
"The item we use the most and what upper management wants is the SLA reports. It's a good summary of how the applications are performing over time from month to month."
"It is a tool that helps me check users' computers really quickly without having a help desk administrator logging in and doing analysis. Anyone who has access to Aternity, including our support team, can log onto Aternity and do a quick, basic analysis."
"The ability to monitor crash and health event issues at a user level"
"There are also built-in activities that let you measure things like preview mail, open address book, and send mail. Those are the activities that we are able to get measurements on, and those are things we have not seen in other software monitoring tools."
"The most valuable feature is the application performance troubleshooting because Aternity is able to provide the performance from the end-user perspective. It doesn't just give the standard application logon time, etc., rather it's also able to measure the performance inside the application, the performance of specific transactions in the application, and break it down into three elements: the client time, the network time, and the server time. This gives us a lot of insights into what we need to focus on to improve the performance of an application."
"The data collected by the agents on each end point is the most valuable feature for us."
"The dashboard is very effective."
"The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle."
"The architecture and system's stability are simple."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"We use AppDynamics and Elastic. The reason why we're using Elastic APM is because of the license count. It's very favorable compared to AppDynamics. It's inexpensive; it's economical."
"I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability."
"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization."
"The other place for improvement, as an on-prem, non-SaaS customer, is that the system administration and management in Aternity are very difficult. They've even told me that most of their support calls come in due to configuration and system administration on their on-prem. Their on-prem solution is not easy to use."
"The licensing model doesn't suit the market we are in and has room for improvement."
"Signature development process requires deep technical expertise in the application and in the use of their studio tools that help you create it."
"I would like Alluvio Aternity to be certified by the IRAP for petrol companies in Australia."
"Reliability: Issues interfering with the deployment and use of the product has made its use reduced in scope."
"I would like to see more granular performance counters collected and viewable from the endpoints. That would be great."
"I would say the reporting capabilities of this product could use room for improvement."
"Some of the dashboarding and reporting on the analytics side could be improved. I think they realize it. Obviously, some of the desktop monitoring metrics always can be improved."
"Elastic APM's visualization is not that great compared to other tools. It's number of metrics is very low."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"If we had some pre-defined templates for observability that we could start using right away after deploying it – instead of having to build or to change some of the dashboards – that would be helpful."
"The price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"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."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"There could be more low-code features included in the product."
Alluvio Aternity is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 37 reviews while Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Alluvio Aternity is rated 8.4, while Elastic Observability is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alluvio Aternity writes "Not only helped us know which devices to refresh, but helped us determine if a refresh was even necessary, with factual data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". Alluvio Aternity is most compared with Dynatrace, Nexthink, SysTrack, AppDynamics and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor and Sentry. See our Alluvio Aternity vs. Elastic Observability report.
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