Devo vs Elastic Observability comparison

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Devo and Elastic are both solutions in the Log Management category. Devo is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.9, while Elastic is ranked #16 with an average rating of 9.0. Devo holds a 1.4% mindshare in Log Management, compared to Elastic’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Devo users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Elastic users who would recommend it.

Devo

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93% willing to recommend

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88% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Devo and Elastic Observability compete in the data monitoring and analysis sector. Devo stands out in pricing and customer support, while Elastic Observability impresses with its extensive feature set.

Features: Devo is noted for fast query performance, scalability, and efficient data integration capabilities. Elastic Observability offers a comprehensive feature set with diverse integrations and advanced analytics.

Room for Improvement: Devo users suggest enhancements in alerting functionality, improved documentation, and more intuitive interface options. Elastic Observability faces challenges with setup complexity, requires better training materials, and could simplify its initial configuration process.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Devo is recognized for straightforward deployment and responsive customer service, aided by guided installation. Elastic Observability is less intuitive but has effective customer support for issue resolution.

Pricing and ROI: Devo is known for its competitive pricing and favorable ROI due to lower setup costs. Elastic Observability, while more expensive, provides satisfactory ROI through advanced analytics and features.

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Devo vs. Elastic Observability

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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:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.2

Devo provided improved ROI through cost savings and efficiency, despite some concerns over costs and support challenges.

Sentiment score

6.5

Elastic Observability enhances cost-effectiveness by reducing incidents, automating fixes, and visualizing cloud operations, saving time and resources.

Devo gives value to the end user and is saving compared to other products in the same category.

Ahmad Zakwan

Principal Consultant at Syntx Sdn Bhd

In terms of return on investment with Devo, I'd say it has been costly due to the need for support and the overtime required for issues experienced at the beginning of the project.

Leland Austin

Senior Consultant and Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We achieve early identification of security incidents that could potentially breach the customer environment, which would have been costly.

Jay Kar

Principal Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Elastic Observability has saved us time as it's much easier to find relevant pieces across the system in one screen compared to our own software, and it has saved resources too since the same resources can use less time.

Stefan Decuypere

Technology Consultant at Hybrid software

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.2

Customer service is responsive and proactive, but needs improvement in onboarding, documentation, and regional service consistency.

Sentiment score

7.6

Elastic Observability customers appreciate their helpful support, quick responses, and valuable documentation, despite some challenges in complex issue resolution.

I rate the customer support a nine out of ten because of their timely technical guidance and responsiveness during the deployment and troubleshooting periods.

Vikram Chakravarthy

Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO

Both response time and support quality need attention.

Usama Khan

Team Lead Soc at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Technical support from Devo is helpful.

Ahmad Zakwan

Principal Consultant at Syntx Sdn Bhd

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Elastic support really struggles in complex situations to resolve issues.

Mohammed-Abdelalim

Assistant Vice President at QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Their excellent documentation typically helps me solve any issues I encounter.

Stefan Decuypere

Technology Consultant at Hybrid software

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.9

Praised for scalability, Devo efficiently manages large logs, easily expands use, but multi-tenancy features need development.

Sentiment score

7.2

Elastic Observability is praised for scalability and ease of deployment, despite potential complexities and internal process limitations.

Devo is a unified SIEM solution designed to handle growing log volumes and enterprise-scale monitoring requirements.

Vikram Chakravarthy

Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO

Devo's scalability has its challenges.

Leland Austin

Senior Consultant and Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Regarding Devo's scalability, its horizontal scalability is quite good with no significant hassle.

Jay Kar

Principal Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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I rate the scalability of Elastic Observability as a ten, as we have never seen issues even with a lot of data coming in from more customers, provided we have the appropriate configuration.

Stefan Decuypere

Technology Consultant at Hybrid software

Elastic Observability is easy in deployment in general for small scale, but when you deploy it at a really large scale, the complexity comes with the customizations.

Mohammed-Abdelalim

Assistant Vice President at QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.5

Devo offers reliable performance with minimal outages, praised for proactive alerts and quick incident resolution, ensuring business continuity.

Sentiment score

8.2

Elastic Observability is stable and reliable, with high user ratings, efficiently handling large data volumes with proper configuration.

It is stable and reliable for our security operations.

Vikram Chakravarthy

Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO

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There are some bugs that come with each release, but they are keen always to build major versions and minor versions on time, including the CVE vulnerabilities to fix it.

Mohammed-Abdelalim

Assistant Vice President at QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

I would rate the stability of Elastic Observability as a ten, as we don't experience any issues.

Stefan Decuypere

Technology Consultant at Hybrid software

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Room For Improvement

Devo needs enhancements in support, performance, AI, customization, and documentation, focusing on data management and UI configuration.

Elastic Observability needs automation, AI, and customization improvements, addressing complex deployment, market presence, metrics, licensing, and usability issues.

It's hard for us to keep pace since our original use case was 250 to 500 megabytes a day, and then it became two terabytes a day.

Leland Austin

Senior Consultant and Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Integrating custom parsing and mapping for non-standard logs is essential due to compatibility challenges with various technologies.

Jay Kar

Principal Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

This is particularly evident when dealing with failed login attempts and determining true versus false positives.

Francisco JavierRomo

Strategic Account Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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For instance, if you have many error logs and want to create a rule with a custom query, such as triggering an alert for five errors in the last hour, all you need to do is open the AI bot, type this question, and it generates an Elastic query for you to use in your alert rules.

Lakshmi Bodepu

Senior Consultant at Skillfield

It lacked some capabilities when handling on-prem devices, like network observability, package flow analysis, and device performance data on the infrastructure side.

reviewer708360

Senior Technical Sales at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Some areas such as AI Ops still require data scientists to understand machine learning and AI, and it doesn't have a quick win with no-brainer use cases.

Mohammed-Abdelalim

Assistant Vice President at QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

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Setup Cost

Devo offers competitive, simple data ingestion-based pricing with extensive features and flexibility, despite some limitations in tier options.

Elastic Observability provides competitive pricing, benefiting large enterprises with comprehensive licensing, but may be costly for smaller users.

The pricing could be simpler, and while the initial setup cost for a new instance is a bit expensive, the licensing can currently be user-based or driven by log volume, which is better if there is expansion of our user base.

Jay Kar

Principal Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The pricing of the product is reasonable if we compare it with other Gartner leading products like Splunk, LogRhythm, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps.

Usama Khan

Team Lead Soc at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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Observability is actually cheaper compared to logs because you're not indexing huge blobs of text and trying to parse those.

Lakshmi Bodepu

Senior Consultant at Skillfield

Many customers struggle to understand their total cost of ownership because Elastic licensing is not dependent on easy, quantifiable metrics such as number of users or amount of data.

Mohammed-Abdelalim

Assistant Vice President at QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

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Valuable Features

Devo excels in real-time analytics, large data handling, customization, and third-party integration, enhancing security operations with advanced features.

Elastic Observability excels with flexible integration, powerful search, scalability, real-time insights, affordability, and robust support, enhancing efficiency.

When they see a spike in a line chart for a failed login, which could be a true or false attempt, they can click that spike, and a table widget on the same active board instantly populates with raw logs of data for those specific failed logins.

Francisco JavierRomo

Strategic Account Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

When the analyst uses queries to search, it pulls the data quickly, in a second, which aids us greatly with the investigation.

Vikram Chakravarthy

Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO

It utilizes 400 days of hot data, allowing queries to run very fast and yield results quicker than other tools in terms of security and SIEM capability.

G Srivastava

Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

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the most valued feature of Elastic is its log analytics capabilities.

reviewer708360

Senior Technical Sales at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Every integration, whether for Windows or Linux or even Palo Alto or Fortinet, installs the out-of-the-box dashboards along with it, making it easy to parse incoming data meaningfully and immediately start viewing dashboards to see what's happening in the platform.

Lakshmi Bodepu

Senior Consultant at Skillfield

The best features of Elastic Observability are their flexibility to integrate with other existing systems and the ability to build a unified monitoring tool that can integrate with existing ones and end-to-end user journeys which require a lot of customizations.

Mohammed-Abdelalim

Assistant Vice President at QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

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Categories and Ranking

Devo

Ranking in Log Management

21st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (16th), IT Operations Analytics (7th), AIOps (17th)

Elastic Observability

Ranking in Log Management

16th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (12th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (15th), Container Monitoring (5th), Cloud Monitoring Software (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Devo is 1.4%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Observability is 1.3%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Elastic Observability	1.3%
Devo	1.4%
Other	97.3%

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Usama Khan

Team Lead Soc at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Advanced threat hunting has improved SOC visibility and now supports faster incident response

Devo can improve in how its connectors enhance integration with third-party tools. Devo's architecture works by having you deploy a relay server in the data center of the client side and Devo SIEM is basically on the AWS cloud. There are specific ports which are enabled on the relay server, which are 514 and 13000, 13151, 152. However, when we talk about databases and custom integrations, there are not default ports in the relay server. No default ports are defined. For JDBC drivers, the port number is 1433, but it is not in the relay server. You have to add it manually. For Oracle RDBMS, the port is 1521, and it is also not there by default. I would appreciate more third-party integrations including Fortinet and others. Machine learning models can also be improved. Playbooks in the SOAR can also be improved. Regarding playbooks for automation, we utilize playbooks for automation in SOAR for automated IOC blocking on a firewall, on a web application firewall, on DNS security, etc. The only option for us to run the playbook is to schedule the job for it. However, if I want to manually run the playbook, there is no option for doing so. This needs improvement.

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Mohammed-Abdelalim

Assistant Vice President at QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Has provided powerful customization for unique monitoring needs but needs more out-of-the-box capabilities

In my opinion, the best features of Elastic Observability are their flexibility to integrate with other existing systems and the ability to build a unified monitoring tool that can integrate with existing ones and end-to-end user journeys which require a lot of customizations. The greatest feature in Elastic is the ability to customize. This is similar to my comments about customizable dashboards in Elastic because it's visible to the analyst. However, it's very great. Customizing these dashboards can meet the customer's specific use cases and specific stories that they have in their environment, their special environment that doesn't look like other environments. The dashboarding in Elastic is highly customizable to the level of logos. If the customer wants his company logo in the dashboard, it can be done.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	15

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	16

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Devo?

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What needs improvement with Devo?

In terms of improvements, I think Devo falls short with their support model, as they rely mainly on their support team in Spain. Although they do have a support team in North America, they lack kno...

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What is your primary use case for Devo?

Devo is the bank's centralized log management platform that my team and I rely on the most. For centralized log management in our day-to-day work, one of the biggest data users would be our Red...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Elastic Observability?

The problem is their licensing model, which is a bit confusing. Many customers struggle to understand their total cost of ownership because Elastic licensing is not dependent on easy, quantifiable ...

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What needs improvement with Elastic Observability?

After careful consideration about areas for improvement in Elastic Observability, aspects such as pricing, customization, implementation, and scalability could be improved. As a user of the system,...

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What is your primary use case for Elastic Observability?

My use case for Elastic Observability is observability, as we upload our customers' data, including logs, and when there is an issue, we can analyze what went wrong.

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Overview

Devo offers powerful visual analytics, real-time data querying, and log integration capabilities within a cloud-native, multi-tenant architecture, supporting extended data retention ideal for long-term analysis and compliance.

Devo is recognized for its Activeboards, which facilitate visual analytics. High-speed search capabilities and real-time analytics enable efficient data manipulation and querying. Its multi-tenant architecture supports effective data segregation and customization tailored to distinct business needs, enhancing its value for handling complex log integrations. With extended data retention of 400 days and a cloud-native architecture, Devo is a robust platform for long-term analysis and compliance requirements. Though opportunities exist to improve browser stability on large searches, SOAR integrations, and its parser capabilities, Devo remains essential for incident response and security monitoring, offering centralized data storage and analysis.

What are Devo's most important features?

Activeboards: Facilitate visual analytics and data exploration.
High-Speed Search: Enables fast data querying and manipulation.
Real-Time Analytics: Supports instant insights and decision-making.
Multi-Tenant Architecture: Allows effective data segregation and customization.
Extended Data Retention: Offers 400-day log retention for compliance and analysis.
Complex Log Integration: Handles intricate data sources effortlessly.

What benefits and ROI should organizations look for in reviews?

Visual Insights: Enhance understanding through interactive dashboards.
Performance Efficiency: Saves time with high-speed data search and real-time results.
Customization Flexibility: Fits specific business requirements with multi-tenant architecture.
Long-Term Compliance: Ensures alignment with extended data retention needs.
Centralized Monitoring: Enables comprehensive incident response and security monitoring.

Devo is extensively used in industries focused on incident response and digital forensics, centralizing data for security monitoring across hybrid environments. Organizations benefit from its ability to store and analyze aggregated logs, creating alerts and dashboards to enhance visibility for network and endpoint activities in multi-domain settings.

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Elastic Observability is known for its powerful search capabilities, central logging, and integration with cloud-native tasks. It enhances monitoring for applications and systems through its flexibility and machine learning features.

Elastic Observability is a robust tool offering end-to-end monitoring and performance analysis, widely utilized for application performance monitoring, centralized logging, and metrics collection. Kibana enables data visualization and connection of sources, while the platform aids in incident response with real-time insights. Despite its complex learning curve, limited customization, and licensing challenges, it remains valuable for businesses seeking to improve operational efficiency with additional support from log analytics and system automation.

What are the key features of Elastic Observability?

Powerful Search: High-performance search that simplifies finding data across systems.
Centralized Logging: Consolidates logs from multiple sources for easier monitoring.
Customizable Dashboards: Allows tailored visual monitoring experience through Kibana.
Machine Learning Features: Incorporates AI-driven analytics for deeper insights.
Scalability and Stability: Adaptable infrastructure supporting high-volume data efficiently.

What benefits or ROI should be considered?

Enhanced Monitoring: Improves system performance visibility and response time.
Cost-Effectiveness: Offers value through scalable infrastructure solutions.
Flexible Integration: Connects seamlessly with existing systems for operational efficiency.

A wide range of industries apply Elastic Observability for its capabilities in capturing significant data points to offer insights into business and technical performance. Its applications span log events, application monitoring, network protocol monitoring, and more, aiding in data-driven decision-making processes within sectors like IT, finance, and e-commerce.

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United States Air Force, Rubrik, SentinelOne, Critical Start, NHL, Panda Security, Telefonica, CaixaBank, OpenText, IGT, OneMain Financial, SurveyMonkey, FanDuel, H&R Block, Ulta Beauty, Manulife, Moneylion, Chime Bank, Magna International, American Express Global Business Travel

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