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Coralogix vs Elastic Search comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Coralogix
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (21st), Log Management (20th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (20th), API Management (15th), Streaming Analytics (14th), Anomaly Detection Tools (1st), AI Observability (16th)
Elastic Search
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
89
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (1st), Cloud Data Integration (5th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Coralogix and Elastic Search aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Coralogix is designed for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability and holds a mindshare of 1.1%, up 0.8% compared to last year.
Elastic Search, on the other hand, focuses on Indexing and Search, holds 12.0% mindshare, down 27.5% since last year.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Coralogix1.1%
Dynatrace6.3%
Datadog5.3%
Other87.3%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Indexing and Search Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Elastic Search12.0%
Lucidworks6.7%
OpenText Knowledge Discovery (IDOL)6.3%
Other75.0%
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

Naveenkumar Lakshman - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at Crayon AS
Centralized monitoring has improved real-time issue tracking and reduced root cause analysis time
One of the best features that Coralogix offers is that it is integration friendly. I can seamlessly work with different cloud providers including AWS, Azure, and GCP. I can monitor Kubernetes or Docker platforms as well, and I can integrate with the DevOps chain including Jenkins and all infrastructure code, Terraform, or Ansible. Coralogix has positively impacted my organization by providing a centralized console to monitor the dashboard, giving me rich flexibility to see different sorts of data that is spread across the logs, metrics, or traces, which are the typical pillars of the observability tool. I have the interface where I can use the drag-and-drop feature, and I can create different types of charts. Mainly, I have the line charts and time series ones that I generally use in many use cases, gauges, tables, pie charts, or markdown widgets. These are the ones generically available, and I can switch between the visualization types. I am getting the underlying query in that and can import and export dashboards built upon the JSON format. I can have my own APIs integrated with my dashboards as well, such as with Terraform, which is useful for scaling across my environments. Regarding root cause analysis, mainly what I can do is correlate across all of the layers because the main logs that I work on are storage-related, including CIFS, NFS, SAN traffic, and the metrics including storage, throughput, or VM resource usage. Being able to view logs, metrics, or traces available, I get all of these in one place, and I can do root cause analysis much quicker.
Anurag Pal - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Search and aggregations have transformed how I manage and visualize complex real estate data
Elastic Search consumes lots of memory. You have to provide the heap size a lot if you want the best out of it. The major problem is when a company wants to use Elastic Search but it is at a startup stage. At a startup stage, there is a lot of funds to consider. However, their use case is that they have to use a pretty significant amount of data. For that, it is very expensive. For example, if you take OLTP-based databases in the current scenario, such as ClickHouse or Iceberg, you can do it on 4GB RAM also. Elastic Search is for analytical records. You have to do the analytics on it. According to me, as far as I have seen, people will start moving from Elastic Search sooner or later. Why? Because it is expensive. Another thing is that there is an open source available for that, such as ClickHouse. Around 2014 and 2012, there was only one competitor at that time, which was Solr. But now, not only is Solr there, but you can take ClickHouse and you have Iceberg also. How are we going to compete with them? There is also a fork of Elastic Search that is OpenSearch. As far as I have seen in lots of articles I am reading, users are using it as the ELK stack for logs and analyzing logs. That is not the exact use case. It can do more than that if used correctly. But as it involves lots of cost, people are shifting from Elastic Search to other sources. When I am talking about pricing, it is not only the server pricing. It is the amount of memory it is using. The pricing is basically the heap Java, which is taking memory. That is the major problem happening here. If we have to run an MVP, a client comes to me and says, "Anurag, we need to do a proof of concept. Can we do it if I can pay a 4GB or 16GB expense?" How can I suggest to them that a minimum of 16GB is needed for Elastic Search so that your proof of concept will be proved? In that case, what I have to suggest from the beginning is to go with Cassandra or at the initial stage, go with PostgreSQL. The problem is the memory it is taking. That is the only thing.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"A non-tech person can easily get used to it."
"The most valuable feature of Coralogix is that it is a very good vendor for metrics."
"In my experience, the best feature Coralogix offers is that the dashboard is pretty good."
"The best feature of this solution allows us to correlate logs, metrics and traces."
"Coralogix has positively impacted my organization by providing a centralized console to monitor the dashboard, giving me rich flexibility to see different sorts of data that is spread across the logs, metrics, or traces, which are the typical pillars of the observability tool."
"The log monitoring is good, and the dashboards that we create are beneficial."
"The solution is easy to use and to start with."
"Coralogix scales well, and I will rate it nine out of ten."
"It is highly valuable because of its simplicity in maintenance, where most tasks are handled for you, and it offers a plethora of built-in features."
"Big businesses cannot survive without Elastic Search because it gives us very good visibility and handles our use cases very well."
"It is stable."
"Using real-time search functionality to support operational decisions has been helpful."
"The solution has great scalability."
"Gives us a more user-friendly, centralized solution (for those who just needed a quick glance, without being masters of sed and awk) as well as the ability to implement various mechanisms for machine-learning from our logs, and sending alerts for anomalies."
"I have found the sort capability of Elastic very useful for allowing us to find the information we need very quickly."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Enterprise Search is the Discovery option for the visualization of logs on a GPU instead of on the server."
 

Cons

"The user interface could be more intuitive and explanatory."
"Coralogix should have some AI capabilities to auto-detect anomalies and provide suggestions."
"It would be helpful if Coralogix could integrate the main modules that any organization requires into a single subscription."
"The user interface is not intuitive, especially when first onboarding, and improvements could be made here."
"In terms of documentation, I think there can be more user-friendly documentation that stresses more on day-to-day issues."
"We want it to work at what it is expected to work at and not really based on the updated configuration which one developer has decided to change."
"The features we were missing in the past were related to the way we see our metrics and aggregate our data."
"From my experience, Coralogix has horrible Terraform providers."
"According to me, as far as I have seen, people will start moving from Elastic Search sooner or later. Why? Because it is expensive."
"Elasticsearch could improve by honoring Unix environmental variables and not relying only on those provided by Java (e.g. installing plugins over the Unix http proxy)."
"It should be easier to use. It has been getting better because many functions are pre-defined, but it still needs improvement."
"Technical support should be faster."
"Could have more open source tools and testing."
"There are a lot of manual steps on the operating system. It could be simplified in the user interface."
"There are some features lacking in ELK Elasticsearch."
"They're making changes in their architecture too frequently."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are paying roughly $5,000 a month."
"The platform has a reasonable cost. I rate the pricing a three out of ten."
"Currently, we are at a very minimal cost, which is around $400 per month since we have reduced our usage. Initially, we were at $900 per month."
"The cost of the solution is per volume of data ingested."
"The price of Elastic Enterprise is very, very competitive."
"ELK has been considered as an alternative to Splunk to reduce licensing costs."
"The tool is an open-source product."
"The premium license is expensive."
"The solution is free."
"We are using the free open-sourced version of this solution."
"​The pricing and license model are clear: node-based model."
"Elastic Search is open-source, but you need to pay for support, which is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise44
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Coralogix?
Numerous data monitoring tools are available, but Coralogix somehow fine-tunes our policies and effectively supports our teams.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Coralogix?
To monitor and manage costs associated with Coralogix, I analyze my trend, looking at how the data is being ingested. Generally, it is charged based on what we store, and therefore there are certai...
What needs improvement with Coralogix?
I think Coralogix can be improved with flexible dashboards. Creating specific views, such as saving a dev environment as a separate view rather than adding filters every time, would be great.
What do you like most about ELK Elasticsearch?
Logsign provides us with the capability to execute multiple queries according to our requirements. The indexing is very high, making it effective for storing and retrieving logs. The real-time anal...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ELK Elasticsearch?
On the subject of pricing, Elastic Search is very cost-efficient. You can host it on-premises, which would incur zero cost, or take it as a SaaS-based service, where the expenses remain minimal.
What needs improvement with ELK Elasticsearch?
While Elastic Search is a good product, I see areas for improvement, particularly regarding the misconception that any amount of data can simply be dumped into Elastic Search. When creating an inde...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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Elastic Enterprise Search, Swiftype, Elastic Cloud
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Payoneer, AGS, Monday.com, Capgemini
T-Mobile, Adobe, Booking.com, BMW, Telegraph Media Group, Cisco, Karbon, Deezer, NORBr, Labelbox, Fingerprint, Relativity, NHS Hospital, Met Office, Proximus, Go1, Mentat, Bluestone Analytics, Humanz, Hutch, Auchan, Sitecore, Linklaters, Socren, Infotrack, Pfizer, Engadget, Airbus, Grab, Vimeo, Ticketmaster, Asana, Twilio, Blizzard, Comcast, RWE and many others.
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