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    Elastic Observability

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AElastic Observability, from Elastic, the makers of Elasticsearch, is a solution that aims to bring logs, metrics, and APM based on the former Opbeat (acquired by Elastic in 2017) traces together at scale in a single stack so users can monitor and react to events happening anywhere in an IT environment. It's free and open to start, and adds the Logs, Metrics, APM (formerly Opbeat), and Uptime modules to the Elastic (ELK) Stack.N/A

    Grafana

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGrafana is a data visualization tool developed by Grafana Labs in New York. It is available open source, managed (Grafana Cloud), or via an enterprise edition with enhanced features. Grafana has pluggable data source model and comes bundled with support for popular time series databases like Graphite. It also has built-in support for cloud monitoring vendors like Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft Azure and SQL databases like MySQL. Grafana can combine data from many places into a single dashboard.

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    Elastic ObservabilityGrafana
    Editions & Modules
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    Grafana Cloud - Pro
    $8
    per month up to 1 active user
    Grafana Cloud - Free
    Free
    10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
    Grafana Cloud - Advanced
    Volume Discounts
    custom data usage custom active users
    Grafana - Enterprise Stack
    Custom Pricing
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    Pricing Offerings
    Elastic ObservabilityGrafana
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Elastic ObservabilityGrafana
    Considered Both Products
    Elastic
    Chose Elastic Observability
    Splunk is a very good product but the licensing costs are high; we utilise the best of both worlds by using both products for slightly different purposes. We put the voluminous data with simple use cases in Elastic where it doesn't cost too much and can be searched quickly …
    Incentivized
    Grafana Labs
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Elastic ObservabilityGrafana
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Elastic Observability and Grafana
    Feature
    Elastic Observability
    -
    Ratings
    Grafana
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Elastic Observability and Grafana
    Feature
    Elastic Observability
    -
    Ratings
    Grafana
    6.8
    4 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Elastic Observability and Grafana
    Feature
    Elastic Observability
    -
    Ratings
    Grafana
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Elastic Observability and Grafana
    Feature
    Elastic Observability
    -
    Ratings
    Grafana
    7.7
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
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    Elastic ObservabilityGrafana
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    Score9.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    Elastic ObservabilityGrafana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Elastic ObservabilityGrafana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Elastic
    We can use this Elastic Observability in our business problems such as Creating internal/operational efficiencies issues, customer relations/service, and business process outcomes issues. This product has a lot of features for the above problems. But this product may be having some issues when charting purposes. But it can adjust for that purpose.
    Incentivized
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    Grafana Labs
    Just about any organization with more than one server and more than one cluster as it scales very well. Configuration of the application takes time and finesse to fine tune to where the balance of load time and getting data quickly meets. The plugins add load time but fine tuning for the application to meet demand needs nailed down at implementation
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Elastic
    • Open source code base
    • Community support
    • Is fast in processing
    Incentivized
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    Grafana Labs
    • Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc
    • Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please
    • Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs
    • Microservices monitoring
    • Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Elastic
    • Difficult to setup/maintain
    • Search pattern bar could be more user-friendly
    • Premium subscription features are very expensive
    Incentivized
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    Grafana Labs
    • There are some settings which we can't configure from UI (Web Console).
    • We've open[ed] up configuration files in command line text editors and manually do the settings e.g. LDAP/SSO configuration.
    • In terms of visualization, it's best, but it doesn't support log analysis otherwise it could destroy business of all other visualization tools.
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    Usability
    Elastic
    No answers on this topic
    Grafana Labs
    It is infinitely flexible. If you can imagine it, Grafana can almost certainly do it. Usability may be in the eye of the beholder however, as there is time needed to curate the experience and get the dashboards customized to how it makes sense to you. I know one thing they are working on are more templates, based on data sources
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Elastic
    Splunk is a very good product but the licensing costs are high; we utilise the best of both worlds by using both products for slightly different purposes. We put the voluminous data with simple use cases in Elastic where it doesn't cost too much and can be searched quickly while putting the less voluminous data with more complex use cases in Splunk so we can take advantage of Splunk's very comprehensive but often much slower SPL search query language
    Incentivized
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    Grafana Labs
    Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Elastic
    • Cost management.
    • Good customer increment.
    • Time management.
    Incentivized
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    Grafana Labs
    • Grafana has replaced many higher priced tools
    • The integrations are seemless with multiple backends
    • Combining graphs and dashboards from multiple data sources is a game changer
    Incentivized
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