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Elastic Observability mindshare

As of July 2025, the mindshare of Elastic Observability in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category stands at 4.8%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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CategoryApplication Performance Monitoring (APM) and ObservabilityJul 28, 2025Download
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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
Retailer
4%
Insurance Company
4%
Comms Service Provider
4%
Healthcare Company
4%
University
4%
Energy/Utilities Company
3%
Educational Organization
3%
Outsourcing Company
3%
Construction Company
2%
Real Estate/Law Firm
2%
Media Company
2%
Transportation Company
2%
Non Profit
2%
Hospitality Company
2%
Legal Firm
2%
Performing Arts
2%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Consumer Goods Company
1%
Aerospace/Defense Firm
1%

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LB
Senior Consultant at Skillfield
Verified user of Elastic Observability
Jun 3, 2025
Central management streamlines monitoring and integrates AI features for seamless observability

Pros

"I think Elastic Observability is already in very good shape."

Cons

"The only challenging aspect for new users is often writing the query language."
Adelina Craciun - PeerSpot user
Product Owner at Swisscom
Verified user of Elastic Observability
Nov 7, 2024
Customization enables tailored monitoring and alerting across departments

Pros

"All the features that we use, such as monitoring, dashboarding, reporting, the possibility of alerting, and the way we index the data, are important."

Cons

"When opening tickets, we cannot use our team mailbox."
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SU
Chief Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Verified user of Elastic Observability
Nov 9, 2024
Enhanced collaboration and security through a unified observability platform

Pros

"It is scalable and supports multitenancy, which is beneficial for MSPs. "

Cons

"Simplifying the parsing of logs and manual efforts would also be beneficial."
PeerSpot user
Enterprise Architect at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Elastic Observability
Sep 17, 2024
Powerful monitoring features enhance integration capabilities

Pros

"Elastic provides built-in features for queries and report generation. It's a very good tool for monitoring integration capabilities."

Cons

"I am familiar with Azure Monitor, which I find more user-friendly compared to Elastic, which is a very technical tool."
PeerSpot user
Senior Technical Sales at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Elastic Observability
Jan 26, 2025
Log analytics enhance cloud services but deployment complexity challenges users

Pros

"I found Elk to be excellent for log analytics, security analytics, application code-level analytics, collaboration with DevOps teams, CI/CD, microservices, and Kubernetes, specifically cloud-native or cloud-specific tasks. "

Cons

"It lacked some capabilities when handling on-prem devices, like network observability, package flow analysis, and device performance data on the infrastructure side. "
JN
IT Manager at Software Gurus
Verified user of Elastic Observability
Aug 10, 2023
An affordable solution with the text search feature, but its retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances should be improved

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."

Cons

"Elastic Observability needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
Subramani K - PeerSpot user
Solution Architect at HCL Technologies
Verified user of Elastic Observability
Jul 18, 2022
The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed.

Pros

"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. "

Cons

"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. "
PeerSpot user
Principal Reliability Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Elastic Observability
Feb 4, 2024
Comes with centralized logging and Elastic Common Search features

Pros

"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization. "

Cons

"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema. "