"It is a very good APM tool. There is a lot of thorough scanning of services and applications. It has got great monitoring features."
"Service engineers save a lot of time because they can just go in look at the data and share it with the customer, who has the same view, and say, "Here's an improvement which can be immediately implemented." It's not like a collection of big, multiple findings that are consolidated into one results presentation, then the customer needs to do something. It's more like a continuous performance analysis and improvement process, which is more efficient than those workshops approaches. That's one of the biggest of the advantages that our services team sees because it helps DevOps to focus on continuous delivery and shift quality issues to pre-production."
"The user experience allows us to be able to gauge customer experience and understand the performance impact of our platform."
"It helps to improve code efficiency and has quicker performance analysis."
"I find that the AI on offer is useful, as it's good at identifying problems. You do need a bit of customizing, however, even in its sort of vanilla form, it's pretty good at identifying problems and the root causes of those problems and whatnot."
"A very powerful solution for the end user."
"We like the on-premises platform and the horizontal scalability."
"The solution's ability to assess the severity of anomalies based on the actual impact to users and business KPIs is great. It's exactly what we need. The severity impact is based on the users, the availability, and the impact it has on your business."
"For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool ."
"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."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"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."
"The price is very less expensive compared to the other solutions."
"Pretty much every month there are new features. However, its information on those new features is scarce."
"The reporting could be better."
"Infrastructure monitoring could be improved."
"It could be more affordable and therefore, more widely used by including more features like DEM as part of licensing cost rather than an additional expense."
"The pricing of the product could be improved."
"Another area for improvement is that I would like the alerting to be set up a little bit more easily. Currently, it takes a lot of work to add alerting, especially if you have a large environment, and I consider our environment to be quite large. The alerting takes a lot of administration."
"We'd like it to be more user-friendly, which, in our case, might be a big ask as we have a fairly complex environment."
"There continues to be some opportunity to expose the infrastructure from a broader reporting standpoint. Overall, the opportunity is in the reporting capability and the ability to more flexibly expose or pivot the data for deeper analysis. Oftentimes, the solution is good at looking narrowly at information, but when you want to broaden that perspective, that's where the challenges come in. At this point, it requires the export of data to external systems to do this."
"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."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
"Elastic APM's visualization is not that great compared to other tools. It's number of metrics is very low."
"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."
Dynatrace is ranked 1st in Application Performance Management (APM) with 42 reviews while Elastic Observability is ranked 10th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 5 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Elastic Observability is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The best full stack observability compared to any other tool". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, AppDynamics, New Relic APM, Splunk and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with AppDynamics, Datadog, New Relic Browser, AWS X-Ray and Azure Monitor. See our Dynatrace vs. Elastic Observability report.
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