We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor 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 is the preferred solution as it offers more advanced features, such as machine learning and custom development, as well as better visualization and metrics. Although there is a steep learning curve, customer service and support have been positive. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor has room for improvement in terms of stability, flexibility, ease of use, performance, integration, and pricing. The product is considered expensive, and the report feature is difficult to use.
"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."
"Its diverse set of features available on the cloud is of significant importance."
"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."
"It has always been a stable solution."
"The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."
"Identifying the problem statement is easy."
"I adore the NTA module that provides deep details on ingress/egress traffic for any interface. With a few clicks, you can correlate who is accessing what and when, beside the bandwidth consuming applications/users."
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"SolarWinds is a very stable platform compared to others on the market."
"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is its powerful monitoring capabilities."
"Solarwinds has an open database that allows you to do serious integrations. It doesn't matter which service desk you have, you can implement and integrate it with SolarWinds."
"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."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"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."
"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 could be more low-code features included in the product."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."
"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."
"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."
"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."
"PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."
"The major concern in the product revolves around application performance monitoring since end-to-end application monitoring is not possible with the tool."
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Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor 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 SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, AppDynamics and Sentry, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI. See our Elastic Observability vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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