We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and IBM Instana Observability based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"It has always been a stable solution."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle."
"I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability."
"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."
"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."
"For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool ."
"The solution has a one-second resolution, giving you the status of your application within one second."
"There could be more low-code features included in the product."
"Elastic Observability is difficult to use. There are only three options for customization but this can be difficult for our use case. We do not have other options to choose the metrics shown, such as CPU or memory usage."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."
"The price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper."
"The cost must be made more transparent."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"The solution should include log management and improve reporting and integration with Cognos."
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Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while IBM Instana Observability is ranked 76th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while IBM Instana Observability is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Instana Observability writes "Used for observability and application performance management". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry and AppDynamics, whereas IBM Instana Observability is most compared with .
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