We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"The ability to ensure that the data is searchable and maintainable is highly valuable for our purposes."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle."
"Elastic Observability significantly improves incident response time by providing quick access to logs and data across various sources. For instance, searching for specific keywords in logs spanning over a month from multiple data sources can be completed within seconds."
"There are a lot of valuable features with SolarWinds NPM. We can receive a lot of detailed data from the monitoring that can use useful for investigations, especially when you are troubleshooting. It is very helpful. Overall it was a very good experience."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical user interface."
"You can monitor performance counters effortlessly."
"SolarWinds' network and server application monitoring features are strong."
"SolarWinds NPM has a colorful UI and many easy-to-use features. It does not need to be configured as much and is also easy to install."
"Provides a good level of tools and covers essential components."
"The nice thing about SolarWinds is that it's kind of all-in-one. I can manage the status of my networking devices, whether they are up or down, I can see how much traffic is going across an interface, and I can run a report that tells me exactly what that traffic is."
"We found that it was easy to operate, and it was simple if anyone has entry-level working experience or even if someone is not experienced."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"The tool's scalability involves a more complex implementation process. It requires careful calculations to determine the number of nodes needed, the specifications of each node, and the configuration of hot, warm, and cold zones for data storage. Additionally, managing log retention policies adds further complexity. The solution's pricing also needs to be cheaper."
"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."
"Elastic Observability needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"Elastic APM's visualization is not that great compared to other tools. It's number of metrics is very low."
"There needs to be more integration of widgets, especially for reporting purposes."
"If they’re going for a “cover everything” approach, then they need to do so and enable a bit more of the "cover everything approach" within every one of the tools."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"Being able to detect devices that are trying to connect wirelessly would make using this solution much easier."
"The integration with the APIs and the web servers deployed can definitely be improved."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NPM is the short retention period. Currently, it's just for seven days of data, which is very low, making it hard for my organization to keep that data. SolarWinds recommended a seven-day retention period, but my organization needs a fourteen-day data retention period. Hence, I'd like an increase in the retention period or the database limit in SolarWinds NPM because you can't go back to the data for any investigation if seven days have passed. Another area for improvement in SolarWinds NPM is the database, which needs to be a bit more mature. I want a modified database in the next release of SolarWinds NPM. I'd also like more options added to groups because, currently, it's very limited."
"SolarWinds NPM can be very slow at times. The database optimization can be done to improve the product performance."
"We'd like to see a bit more automation in the future."
Elastic Observability is ranked 10th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 22 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. 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 SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Datadog and Azure Monitor, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our Elastic Observability vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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