We performed a comparison between Datadog and Elastic Observability based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Management (APM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting."
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"Because of our client focus, it is easy for us to sell. This is because it is easy to use and easy to set up."
"Datadog is providing efficiency in the products we develop for the wireless device engineering department."
"The ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"Datadog's seamless integration with Slack and PagerDuty helped us to receive alerts right to the most common notification methods we use (our mobile devices and Slack)."
"The management of SLOs and their related burn-rate monitors have allowed us to onboard teams to on-call fast."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"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."
"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."
"Elastic APM has plenty of features, such as the Elastic server for Kibana and many additional plugins. It's a comprehensive tool when used as a logging platform."
"Good design and easy to use once implemented."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"There is occasional UI slowness and bugs."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"We need more integration functionality, including certain metrics integration."
"The installation is easy for me. However, if you are new to this solution it might not be so easy."
"While I like the ease of use, when compared with Tenable Nessus they could still improve their usability."
"When it comes to storing the logs with Datadog, I'm not sure why it costs so much to store gigabytes or terabytes of information when it's a fraction of the cost to do so myself."
"I would like better navigability across pages."
"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 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."
"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."
"Elastic APM's visualization is not that great compared to other tools. It's number of metrics is very low."
"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."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Management (APM) with 106 reviews while Elastic Observability is ranked 11th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 9 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Elastic Observability is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Easy to set up and good UI but needs better customization capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "Allows us capture data in observability points, place it into a database, and analyze it". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Splunk Enterprise Security and AWS X-Ray, whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Sentry and Azure Monitor. See our Datadog vs. Elastic Observability report.
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