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.
"Its diverse set of features available on the cloud is of significant importance."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool ."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"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."
"The price is very less expensive compared to the other solutions."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"It has good stability."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"The solution has good features."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
"The price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper."
"The interface could be improved."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"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."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"The solution should include online support."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
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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