AppDynamics vs Elastic Observability comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
5th
Ranking in Container Monitoring
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
156
Ranking in other categories
Mobile APM (3rd)
Elastic Observability
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
7th
Ranking in Container Monitoring
4th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (10th), Log Management (14th), Cloud Monitoring Software (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AppDynamics is 5.7%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Observability is 6.6%, up from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Unique Categories:
Mobile APM
25.6%
Container Monitoring
28.5%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
3.9%
Log Management
1.5%
 

Featured Reviews

Kachi Nnamdi - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 21, 2023
Comprehensive application performance overview, reliable, and effective support
My advice to others is this solution is fantastic if your business can afford it. It will help boost your business and IT. I rate AppDynamics an eight out of ten. From the perspective of the customer experience, the solution has been quite helpful for our company. Positive comments have been given, and no clients have opted out of our services for any reason. This has given us the option to think about including more agents in the remedy. Also, the capability that alerts users in advance of potential problems has improved the effectiveness of our IT employees. Despite hiring more employees, we haven't had any client abandonment, which proves that the solution is of the highest caliber and performing remarkably well. Also, it has helped us monitor apps more efficiently and fix any problems before they have an impact on end users.
Enio Moraes - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 5, 2023
Provides efficient data availability, but its technical support services need improvement
We use the product to monitor various data pipelines Elastic Observability helps us detect more pipeline errors. We were able to resolve 30% of the issues. It also helped us improve our e-commerce sales by 15%. The product’s most valuable feature is Kibana. We can view and connect different…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It's made it easier to collaborate across teams; be able to have the same data immediately in front of you just by sharing a URL."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"The solution saves time and cost."
"AppDynamics makes it much easier for us to detect problems or issues before they become problems. We have alerting on all of our business transactions."
"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization."
"The architecture and system's stability are simple."
"The price is very less expensive compared to the other solutions."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle."
"Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool ."
 

Cons

"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"I would like to see more of a unified platform. They're very, very new on the server side, machine agents. I want them to be more mature in this area."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"AppDynamics is a solution that requires extra learning and could be more user-friendly. Additionally, automated reports would helpful similar to have they have in Google Analytics."
"I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need."
"In the current version of AppDynamics, there is a correlated section, where we can see all servers’ performance along with application performance, but network performance is missing."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"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."
"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."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"The cost must be made more transparent."
"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."
"Elastic APM's visualization is not that great compared to other tools. It's number of metrics is very low."
"Elastic Observability needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a more expensive APM among the competitors, which is fine because it also does a lot more on the auto-detection and the AI side... It is not a cheap product. None of them are. The price is fair, but I could use it on more projects if they had a lower price."
"AppDynamics is really pricey as it requires licenses for every feature."
"Because it is priced per JVM, the price can increase pretty fast, into the millions. We have had challenges because we had to justify the price to our clients, as well, when we are putting in certain tools."
"We do not have any issues with the price."
"I was not involved with the procurement of AppDynamic, but I believe it's expensive."
"The cost is prohibitive."
"It is expensive. However, our time to recover has been reduced, and this product has helped recuperate costs and provided us with ROI."
"Our purchasing experience through the AWS Marketplace has been pretty painless."
"So far, there are just the standard licensing fees. Several of the components are embedded in the license or are even open source. They're even free depending on what you use, which makes it even more appealing to someone that is discussing pricing of the solution."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"It is expensive. It is not cheap."
"Users have to pay for some features, like the alerts on different channels, because they are unavailable in different source versions."
"Pricing is one of those situations where the more you use it, the more you pay."
"We have been using the open-source version."
"There are two types: cloud and SaaS. They charge based on data ingestion, ingest rate, hard retention, and warm retention. I believe it costs around $25,000 annually to ingest 30GB of data daily. That is the SaaS version. There is also a self-managed license where the customer manages their own infrastructure on-prem. In such cases, there are three license tiers that respectively cost $5,000 annually per node, $7,000 per node, and $12,500 per node."
"One needs to pay for the licenses, and it is an annual subscription model right now."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
44%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about 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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Elastic Observability?
I rate the pricing a five out of ten. The product is not that cheap.
What needs improvement with Elastic Observability?
The tool's scalability involves a more complex implementation process. It requires careful calculations to determine the number of nodes needed, the specifications of each node, and the configurati...
 

Also Known As

AppD, AppDynamics APM
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Sample Customers

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