We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Elastic Observability offers comprehensive features, machine learning capabilities, and can handle custom development. In contrast, Prometheus lacks user-friendly query language, visualization tools, and customer support, even though it is flexible and has integration capabilities. Elastic Observability is cost-effective and has helped reduce incidents and overheads, while Prometheus is free but lacks some essential features. Ultimately, Elastic Observability is a more complete and economical option for application performance monitoring.
"The price is very less expensive compared to the other solutions."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"Its diverse set of features available on the cloud is of significant importance."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"Good design and easy to use once implemented."
"I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability."
"Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The ability to ensure that the data is searchable and maintainable is highly valuable for our purposes."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."
"There could be more low-code features included in the product."
"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 needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
"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."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The scalability must be improved."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"Prometheus can be initially difficult for users since it has its query language, PromQL. The minimalistic interface is complicated to understand. They need to improve their interface so that users who don't know PromQL can also use it. You can only leverage the tool when you know PromQL."
Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor and Sentry, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray. See our Elastic Observability vs. Prometheus report.
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