We performed a comparison between ELK Kibana and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tableau, Qlik, Splunk and others in Data Visualization."The optimization and flexibility of visualization tools."
"The automatic update of the graphs from a dashboard is very convenient."
"Having a tool where you can find logs that were generated months ago, and being able to search over a long period of time, is great."
"Tableau has many good features. It is user-friendly, has a simple-to-use interface, and has a customizable dashboard."
"The most valuable feature is the aggregation function."
"It is very easy to create dashboards, charts, and graphs."
"It has been the best tool to work with from a self-service point of view."
"The best thing I like about Tableau is that you don't have to go for creating; it is calculated free."
"Tableau has many different connectors for different databases. It's very easy to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, Amazon EMR, Presto, Redshift, BigQuery, and so on."
"From my perspective, it enables clients to better understand our data and make better decisions based on that information."
"The solution has a lot of customization when comparing to Microsoft BI."
"This solution should allow the user to combine two indices into one graph."
"Security could be improved thereby avoiding the necessity of a third party plugin."
"Having a kind of wizard that would help you when you are typing your search would make it easier and quicker to refine your search, and ultimately find what you are looking for."
"The solution does have scalability issues."
"Requires a lot of user training."
"The only issue with the solution is with its prices at a regional level."
"There's no mature ETL tool in Tableau, which is quite a negative for them."
"We need big servers to perform the operations that we are doing. They should probably relook at its architecture."
"Whenever it comes to specialized visualization, Tableau is an absolute failure."
"I take a long time to process the hundreds of thousands or millions of records that must be processed every day."
"The pricing is a bit higher than the competition. They'll need to lower it to stay competitive."
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ELK Kibana doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Data Visualization while Tableau is ranked 1st in Data Visualization with 18 reviews. ELK Kibana is rated 7.2, while Tableau is rated 8.4. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". ELK Kibana is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and SAP Analytics Cloud.
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