We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) 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 provides a wider range of features such as machine learning, custom development, and predictive analytics. Although it has a steep learning curve, it is cost-effective. Splunk ITSI, while stable and easy to use, could improve its dashboard queries and customer support. Overall, Elastic Observability is a more cost-effective and feature-rich choice for application performance monitoring.
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"The Elastic User Interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. You need to have some Javascript knowledge. We need that knowledge to develop new custom tests."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"The architecture and system's stability are simple."
"The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle."
"Good design and easy to use once implemented."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"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."
"ITSI's most valuable feature is that it's easy to integrate DLP."
"Splunk Episodes are valuable because it correlates and aggregates all the information, and you do not have one million events to look at and triage, so it is quite convenient."
"We save substantial time on monitoring tasks because we don't have to search for what we need. Everything is packed, so you can drill down to the end values by just doing the kit. We don't spend a lot of time on this. Splunk ITSI is easy to use and not time-consuming."
"The observability is great and valuable."
"The glass tables are very helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the Glass Tables. It gives you a nice, good overview of your KPIs. It's really slick and clean."
"The most valuable features are the mapping of the entities, which provides a comprehensive analysis, and the service analyzer for thresholding."
"The feature that stood out to me most from Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) was automated dashboarding or reporting. The solution lists the severity level of issues, and the response times."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"Elastic Observability is difficult to use. There are only three options for customization but this can be difficult for our use case. We do not have other options to choose the metrics shown, such as CPU or memory usage."
"Elastic Observability is an excellent product for monitoring and visibility, but it lacks predictive analytics. Most solutions are aligned with the AIOps requirements, but this piece is missing in Elastic and should be included."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before."
"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."
"If we had some pre-defined templates for observability that we could start using right away after deploying it – instead of having to build or to change some of the dashboards – that would be helpful."
"I believe the refresh time should be faster."
"The data recovery has room for improvement."
"We're using predictive analytics, and there are three or four algorithms. It would be helpful if this process were more standardized and scalable."
"Splunk ITSI lacks out-of-the-box solutions for enterprise users."
"It would be good if an interface was included in the next release."
"Integration is the most critical area to improve in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI). It wasn't a great experience because you had to do a little back and forth to integrate the solution."
"We'd like them to show more inputs on the dashboard."
"The dashboard queries should be improved. More queries should be suggested in order to produce better dashboards."
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Elastic Observability is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews while Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 17 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.6, while Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "Allows us capture data in observability points, place it into a database, and analyze it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) writes "Provides a unified view of alerts and supports heat maps and glass tables for visualization and monitoring". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Sentry and Centreon, whereas Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Dynatrace, Splunk Enterprise Security, AppDynamics and PRTG Network Monitor. See our Elastic Observability vs. Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) report.
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