We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Elastic Observability 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 offers ease of deployment, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness compared to AppDynamics' wider range of features. Despite having a steep learning curve, Elastic Observability offers machine learning and a comprehensive toolset at a lower price point. Elastic Observability is a good choice for those seeking a flexible and cost-effective observability solution.
"Applications: This provides us insight into how our applications are performing within our environments and affords us the ability to identify opportunities and make changes to code / environment to effect positive performance lift."
"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."
"The SAP monitoring element is very helpful."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the fact that it is very easy to use, making it easy to implement...It is a very stable solution."
"After we implemented this solution, we can easily determine the root cause of issues."
"I like how the AppDynamics dashboard portrays the information flows. When a task is executed, various flows between different applications and databases happen in the background. The dashboard is intuitive and helps visualize the connections, the directions of the flow, and the information related to these specific sessions."
"It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."
"The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"The ability to ensure that the data is searchable and maintainable is highly valuable for our purposes."
"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."
"For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool ."
"The price is very less expensive compared to the other solutions."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"In the current version of AppDynamics, there is a correlated section, where we can see all servers’ performance along with application performance, but network performance is missing."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I would like to see more of a unified platform. They're very, very new on the server side, machine agents. I want them to be more mature in this area."
"Its resiliency can be improved. We're told that the best we can do with an on-prem solution is to have a hot standby that requires a manual switchover. So, it is a do-it-yourself Ikea model of maintaining data consistency between two servers, without having low balance or failover considerations for an on-prem solution."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"The worst part is that the AppDynamics SaaS Environment has a lot of downtimes, and AppDynamics, despite our efforts, does not give us any feedback on these downtimes/incidents."
"One area for improvement is the MST model. It would be more helpful if it could be offered as a managed service provider model with more multi-tenancy and features."
"There could be more low-code features included in the product."
"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."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Elastic Observability is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. Elastic Observability report.
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