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."
"I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability."
"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."
"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."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"It has always been a stable solution."
"It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"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."
"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."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"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."
"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"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."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
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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