We performed a comparison between Elastic Search and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Elastic, IBM, OpenText and others in Indexing and Search."I value the feature that allows me to share the dashboards to different people with different levels of access."
"I really like the visualization that you can do within it. That's really handy. Product-wise, it is a very good and stable product."
"It's a stable solution and we have not had any issues."
"We had many reasons to implement Elasticsearch for search term solutions. Elasticsearch products provide enterprise landscape support for different areas of the company."
"The special text processing features in this solution are very important for me."
"Data indexing of historical data is the most beneficial feature of the product."
"I am impressed with the product's Logstash. The tool is fast and customizable. You can build beautiful dashboards with it. It is useful and reliable."
"The observability is the best available because it provides granular insights that identify reasons for defects."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"The solution has good features."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"It has good stability."
"I would like to see more integration for the solution with different platforms."
"They should improve its documentation. Their official documentation is not very informative. They can also improve their technical support. They don't help you much with the customized stuff. They also need to add more visuals. Currently, they have line charts, bar charts, and things like that, and they can add more types of visuals. They should also improve the alerts. They are not very simple to use and are a bit complex. They could add more options to the alerting system."
"There is an index issue in which the data starts to crash as it increases."
"There are some features lacking in ELK Elasticsearch."
"Elastic Search could benefit from a more user-friendly onboarding process for beginners."
"Elasticsearch could improve by honoring Unix environmental variables and not relying only on those provided by Java (e.g. installing plugins over the Unix http proxy)."
"The one area that can use improvement is the automapping of fields."
"There is another solution I'm testing which has a 500 record limit when you do a search on Elastic Enterprise Search. That's the only area in which I'm not sure whether it's a limitation on our end in terms of knowledge or a technical limitation from Elastic Enterprise Search. There is another solution we are looking at that rides on Elastic Enterprise Search. And the limit is for any sort of records that you're doing or data analysis you're trying to do, you can only extract 500 records at a time. I know the open-source nature has a lot of limitations, Otherwise, Elastic Enterprise Search is a fantastic solution and I'd recommend it to anyone."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
Elastic Search is ranked 1st in Indexing and Search with 59 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Elastic Search is rated 8.2, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Search writes "Played a crucial role in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Azure Search, Pinecone and Amazon Kendra, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability.
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