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Elastic Observability Valuable Features

LB
Senior Consultant at Skillfield

They offer hundreds of connectors, allowing you to send messages to Teams, Slack, SQS, or do a webhook. Every integration, whether for Windows or Linux or even Palo Alto or Fortinet, installs the out-of-the-box dashboards along with it, making it easy to parse incoming data meaningfully and immediately start viewing dashboards to see what's happening in the platform.

The Elastic agent provides a real-time feed of logs and important telemetry such as metrics. They have out-of-the-box rules, so if someone wants to create a high CPU usage rule, it's just one click away, creating the rule behind the scenes. The UI displays all the agents in tabs with many filters to control them. Furthermore, it provides a streamlined way to deploy on Kubernetes including the entire manifest file.

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Adelina Craciun - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner at Swisscom

All the features that we use, such as monitoring, dashboarding, reporting, the possibility of alerting, and the way we index the data, are important.

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SU
Chief Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature is the integrated platform that allows customers to start from observability and expand into other areas like security, EDR solutions, etc. It is scalable and supports multitenancy, which is beneficial for MSPs.

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reviewer2275260 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

Elastic provides built-in features for queries and report generation. It's a very good tool for monitoring integration capabilities.

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reviewer708360 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Sales at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

From my experience with several major customers, the most valued feature of Elastic is its log analytics capabilities. 

I found Elk to be excellent for log analytics, security analytics, application code-level analytics, collaboration with DevOps teams, CI/CD, microservices, and Kubernetes, specifically cloud-native or cloud-specific tasks.

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JN
IT Manager at Software Gurus

The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search.

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SRIDHAR KARRA - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Operating Officer at Integra Micro Software Services, Bangalore

In the solution, search, observability, and SIEM are equally important. It is like Red Hat started convincing the people between open source while subscription was difficult. I believe Elastic is going to be the same thing. However, large enterprise customers who understand and who have applications that are nice with proper logs can get a better advantage.

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Subramani K - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at HCL Technologies

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.

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reviewer2337507 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Reliability Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization. 

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Rami Alaa - PeerSpot reviewer
SRE at Thiqah Business Services

It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis.

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John_King - PeerSpot reviewer
Strategic Innovation Specialist at Elastic

Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution.

Because it is an open, enhanced APR, no custom integrations are required. They're open, so it's an open-wear product that's simple to use and evaluate.

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reviewer1555311 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible. We have been able to easily deploy it in the data capture points that we want. After you capture the data payload of each transaction, it's also easy to do the search in the database.

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reviewer2293977 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The ability to ensure that the data is searchable and maintainable is highly valuable for our purposes.

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Enio Moraes - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The product’s most valuable feature is Kibana. We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it.

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HamadaElewa - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Sales Manager at Spire Solutions

The architecture and system's stability are simple. The storage management behind the massive platform and the service speed are good.

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AB
Lead Software Engineer at Glastechnische Industrie Peter LISEC GmbH

The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle. 

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reviewer2124114 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The solution has been stable in our usage.

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Erika Loots - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps engineer at Telesure Investment Holdings (TIH)

The design is good and they provide great support with plenty of documentation available online.

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SJ
Enterprise Monitoring / Data Protection Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use AppDynamics and Elastic. The reason why we're using Elastic APM is because of the license count. It's very favorable compared to AppDynamics. It's inexpensive; it's economical.

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MN
DevOps consultant at Africa4Data

I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability. We show all the real-time transactions, the transaction type, the transaction amount, and different kinds of metrics based on different transactions. We've built something that helps our different teams working with the same stack make everything visible using Kibana. This helps the compliance team to track some Visa card transactions, etc.

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RT
Technical Consultant at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Elastic APM is very new so we haven't explored much on it, but it's quite interesting. It comes with a free offering included in the same license. So we are looking to explore more. It is still not as mature as other tools like Kibana, AppDynamics or New Relic products related to application performance monitoring. Elastic APM is still evolving, but it's quite interesting to be able to get all the similar options and features in Elastic APM.

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reviewer1377360 - PeerSpot reviewer
Line Technical Agent at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is more of an optional variety platform. It's more than an APM platform. It goes further than that. I'd describe it as a more complete tool. 

The licenses are unlimited and based on the number of elastic search hosts contrary to the other solutions that are working in a model for a license for each instance monitored, for example, which is actually a very good thing. 

The price is very less expensive compared to the other solutions.

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Mustafa Husny - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at Techline-eg

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.

I can quickly check connectivity for endpoints to identify whether network or endpoint issues are causing problems. Access to logs also allows me to monitor hardware status and identify any anomalies affecting performance.

The benefits of using the product are numerous. You can effectively monitor your environment and applications. You can track response times and network performance. It enables you to manage alerts and security rules, enhancing overall system security.

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AA
Chief Revenue Officer at a media company with 11-50 employees

What I find most appealing is the end-to-end platform that seamlessly integrates with other solutions. Its diverse set of features available on the cloud is of significant importance. In a hybrid cloud environment, Elastic Observability stands out by optimizing data transfer and application architecture compared to single-location alternatives. The key feature is the powerful search capability, which serves as the foundational element for our business.

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reviewer1785996 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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reviewer1700526 - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE-IV at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution allows us to track performance via metrics.

We're able to see where latency is happening. 

The solution allows us to dig deep into data.

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Samuel Schubert - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead Transformation at rku.it GmbH

What I like the most about the tool is that we have access to all solutions through it. The product has connectors to many services. It is very open.

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Buyer's Guide
Elastic Observability
July 2025
Learn what your peers think about Elastic Observability. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2025.
861,803 professionals have used our research since 2012.