Dynatrace vs Elastic Stack comparison

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Dynatrace and Elastic are both solutions in the Log Management category. Dynatrace is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.8, while Elastic is ranked #23 with an average rating of 7.5. Dynatrace holds a 2.7% mindshare in Log Management, compared to Elastic’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Dynatrace users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Elastic users who would recommend it.

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96% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Dynatrace and Elastic Stack compete in application performance and log management. While Dynatrace has an edge in analytics and AI-driven insights, Elastic Stack stands out for flexibility and an open-source model.

Features: Dynatrace includes robust monitoring capabilities, AI-driven problem detection, and comprehensive application observability. Elastic Stack offers powerful search capabilities, scalability, and a flexible plugin ecosystem for customization.

Room for Improvement: Dynatrace could enhance integration scope, optimize resource usage, and further refine analytics tools. Elastic Stack should improve security features, simplify setup processes, and address complex learning curves.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dynatrace provides a streamlined deployment process and proactive support, with users appreciating its quick responsiveness. Elastic Stack offers flexible deployment but requires significant setup time, and community-driven support can be complex for users.

Pricing and ROI: Dynatrace's setup costs are high but justified by its sophisticated toolset and ROI. Elastic Stack's open-source model offers cost-saving potential, though it requires investment in skilled resources for maximum ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace

Ranking in Log Management

7th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

363

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Mobile APM (3rd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (1st), AI Observability (3rd)

Elastic Stack

Ranking in Log Management

23rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Dynatrace is 2.7%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Stack is 1.6%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dynatrace	2.7%
Elastic Stack	1.6%
Other	95.7%

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Manish Indupuri

senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

AI-driven insights have reduced downtime and improved cross-team collaboration

We encountered some challenges while using Dynatrace. Although the initial setup was smooth, fine-tuning alert thresholds and custom metrics took some time. Another challenge was that Dynatrace charges based on host units, so we had to carefully plan our agent deployments. The licensing model is expensive. Additionally, the complexity of setup is an issue. While OneAgent and auto-discover services are powerful, the setup is more complex compared to other tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. These integrations are simple and basic, but Dynatrace setup requires more complexity based on the environment. For new users wanting to use Dynatrace, it is difficult. However, the AI-related solutions and metrics took us to the next level for identifying and fixing things. Dynatrace requires an agent for operation. OneAgent is powerful, but it is also resource-heavy. On lightweight nodes or older systems, the agent can slightly impact performance. If Dynatrace could implement a lightweight agent behavior, we could make things faster. Additionally, if Dynatrace could add a long-term retention policy so that we could store more data and find fine-grained details, that would help us. While Dynatrace managed edition supports on-premises deployment, the SaaS version depends on cloud connectivity. For highly regulated or air-gapped environments, setup and updates can be challenging. Although the initial setup is smooth, if someone wants to fine-tune it and fully understand the tool end-to-end, it could be tricky.

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Lakshmi Bodepu

Senior Consultant at Skillfield

Offers robust out-of-the-box integrations and streamlines logging processes effortlessly

There are improvements needed for Elastic Stack. It is mostly based on Lucene, and the heart of Elastic Stack is Lucene, which has some limitations. Anything built on top of Lucene often feels an add-on, and that includes vector databases. Elastic Stack can store vector embeddings as well and perform AI and machine learning tasks out of the box without excessive configuration. The main improvements involve increasing speed and compression capabilities; I have seen databases that claim to achieve significantly better compression. While Elastic Stack can manage vast amounts of data, if the mapping is not specified correctly, the indexing time can be slow, especially with many events per second. Improper mapping usually means that every document received gets indexed for all fields, which is not desired. Elastic consultants typically optimize this, but out of the box, as data volume increases, scaling becomes necessary. They are working on these improvements in new versions.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Automation and anomaly detection has helped reduce MTTR and MTBF."

"The dashboards are a really cool feature when I get to talking to clients. I ask them, "Why Dynatrace?" Because I need to push the tools that I have in my application. Then, they explain the monitoring of Dynatrace, saying the rate of the updates and features. They want to go with Dynatrace."

"The AppMon solution helped the operations guys to pinpoint one problem area and call the specific group, instead of everyone. The mean time to repair and the resource utilization time, they are totally reduced."

"We spend less time investing in problems, and we can spend more time on developing new projects."

"PurePath lets us see the steps of a transaction and the time of each one, then we can know exactly what happened in what time."

"It used to take a lot of time to troubleshoot, but now, with Dynatrace, we can actually see the logs anytime we want, quickly find the problem, and it has improved performance from a time perspective."

"We can see which step in a transaction is causing latency, right down to the particular Java class"

"Smartscape display for ease of visibility, pinpointing a exact problem, and providing necessary details for fixing and even improving on."

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"I think the ecosystem is well supported, and for logs, it was faster compared to our previous previous log management."

"The solution's technical support is good...Elastic Stack offers good value for value for money based on the product's features and what they offer."

"The machine learning capabilities are valuable."

"It supports various integrations. It's open source and has excellent community support."

"The tool's most powerful aspect is its search engine capability. It's a highly effective and powerful solution for searching. We use it in professional and student projects at universities, and it delivers promising results."

"The scripting model in Elastic Stack allows me to query logs and then put the data into Grafana."

"Elastic Stack is mainly used to monitor servers and APIs. It helps ensure the software's availability and sends notifications at the right time so the system is not down for a long time. The tool's stability and advanced features, such as anomaly detection, are the most valuable features. The benefit of using it is real-time monitoring."

"The only beneficial aspect of Elastic Stack is that it's open source."

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Cons

"Perhaps there is a FAQ which explains the metrics and how to interpret them, and I just haven't seen it. This would be beneficial in providing context to allow sharing the daily metrics reported within the company."

"We had one issue when we tried to enter one agent and it just does not work. We got to work with the highest level of support, but it took a while to get there."

"The dashboarding in Dynatrace is not very good. We have used other monitoring tools like AppDynamics. We are also using AppDynamics for some of our products. If I compare Dynatrace with those monitoring tools, the dashboarding is not as good. If I have to create a dashboard it takes me time, the experience is not that good."

"One of the features that we are lacking is on the reports side. We don't have much reporting available. And the dashboards. I checked on their blog and they said that they are working on the dashboard front where you can create the dashboards. We do have dashboards available. They said they are bringing in a lot of things there, so I'm looking forward to that, on reports."

"The dashboard could improve."

"I don't think the limitations are technical at this point, honestly. My limitations are more to do - and maybe it's because of the nature of the job I have - but they have to do with pricing."

"Include network monitoring in more detail for deep dive analytics of network components."

"Make the Web UI more robust. Last time I used the web interface, it was still pretty crude."

More Dynatrace cons

"The implementation of dashboards in the solution needs to be made easier...I had some issues with the ports and configuration since it was kind of complex to implement with Docker."

"Improving integration capabilities, especially with authentication systems, firewalls, and security controls, is a crucial area for improvement in Elastic Stack. Additionally, enhancing functionality to handle large Yara queries more efficiently would be beneficial, as many EDR solutions can run such queries faster than Elastic Stack's current limitations."

"When people try to move the data from another source to Elastic Stack for visualization, they face challenges when connecting to Elastic Stack from such different sources."

"Support could be improved. The error code is not helpful. We have to ask for it or pass it on to community forums."

"It should facilitate easier manual integration."

"Elastic Stack's search capabilities can be challenging, especially when searching for precise data from past years, such as two or ten years ago. Its indexing performance for exact data retrieval may decrease as the data volume grows. Therefore, I believe there is room for improvement in the product's search functionality. It needs to improve its pricing as well."

"The stability of the solution is rated as three or four out of ten as we frequently encounter issues."

"The solution is expensive, particularly the training and certification. If customers want to increase their use of Elastic Stack, they should consider reducing the cost of certification and training."

More Elastic Stack cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is quite expensive for startups."

"There are additional Professional Services costs which ensure the solution is configured with meaningful names so you're getting the most money for your investment."

"The price range is quite high."

"I feel the price is good for what the product does."

"Price (of the product) is a major concern for all the clients I work with."

"We purchased a subscription for one year and it is an expensive solution for a large enterprise like ours."

"Getting the first agents installed, getting information, and coverage in a initial set of systems can be done in hours and with a low cost entry point."

"Time to value was surprisingly fast."

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"It depends on the specifics, but generally, Elastic is economical for certain use cases."

"The product is expensive."

"We are using the open-source community version of the product."

"If I compare Elastic Stack to the other products in the market, I would say that the tool is available at a competitive price."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"Ultimately, the pricing depends upon the capacity planning that the enterprise architect does."

"I used the open-source version of Elastic Stack, because of which I did not have to pay anything."

"I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	81
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	303

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?

The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not f...

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What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?

While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything els...

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Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...

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

My experience with Elastic Stack pricing indicates that it is node-based. While I do not have complete pricing details, they are available online. If I choose Elastic Cloud, it includes licensing a...

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What needs improvement with Elastic Stack?

I would like to improve Elastic Stack by addressing the current big problem we face with importing logs and log files, such as syslogs. To import these log files, we need to design the ingest pipel...

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What is your primary use case for Elastic Stack?

Elastic Stack is primarily used for everything related to security, including security systems, checking the security system, and also servers and networks.

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Overview

Dynatrace is advancing observability for today’s digital businesses, helping to transform the complexity of modern digital ecosystems into powerful business assets. By leveraging AI-powered insights, Dynatrace enables organizations to analyze, automate, and innovate faster to drive their business forward. To learn more about how Dynatrace can help your business, visit www.dynatrace.com, visit our blog and follow us on LinkedIn and X @dynatrace.

Dynatrace

Elastic Stack is a comprehensive tool for log management, observability, indexing, and security, widely adopted for managing logs, alert creation, SIEM, SOC, and threat analysis. It integrates with CloudStrike and Endpoint Security, enhancing search capabilities and Application Performance Monitoring.

Elastic Stack offers powerful solutions for logging, data storage, and visualization with Kibana. It allows MSSPs to efficiently manage security and assists companies with data analysis. It's known for its easy implementation, scalability, real-time monitoring, and extensive integrations. The open-source nature and community support add significant value, making it a popular choice across industries. While highly capable, there is a need for enhancement in dashboard implementation, data integration, and certain advanced features. Licensing, compatibility, and cost-related improvements can further elevate its efficacy.

What are the key features of Elastic Stack?

Powerful Search Capabilities: Offers robust, efficient searching across vast datasets
Scalability: Easily handles large volumes of data
Anomaly Detection: Identifies irregular patterns in data
Machine Learning: Enhances data analysis with intelligent insights
Real-Time Monitoring: Provides up-to-date monitoring of applications and systems
Extensive Integration: Supports diverse tools and solutions

What benefits should users consider?

Ease of Implementation: Quick setup and integration into existing systems
Robust Security: Comprehensive monitoring and analysis capabilities
Community Support: Ongoing improvements and guidance from a dedicated community
Hybrid Deployment: Flexibility in using both cloud and on-premise solutions

In healthcare, Elastic Stack enhances database search capabilities, aiding in patient record management and data retrieval. Managed Security Service Providers use it for comprehensive security management, integrating it with tools like firewalls and authentication systems. Companies benefit from its application in Application Performance Monitoring and its flexibility in adapting to hybrid environments.

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Sample Customers

TD Bank, Zurich North America, Accenture, Macquarie, United Airlines, Raymond James, BT, Vodafone, Air France-KLM, TELUS, American Airlines, Air Canada, ADT, Virgin Money

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