We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and Splunk APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The price is very less expensive compared to the other solutions."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Its diverse set of features available on the cloud is of significant importance."
"It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"Elastic APM's visualization is not that great compared to other tools. It's number of metrics is very low."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"Elastic Observability needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
"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."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. 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 Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics and Azure Monitor, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Monte Carlo, Observe and Dynatrace. See our Elastic Observability vs. Splunk APM report.
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