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Elastic Observability vs LogicMonitor comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.1
Elastic Observability boosts efficiency, minimizes incidents, enhances data management, and improves reliability, though financial impacts vary across organizations.
Sentiment score
7.6
LogicMonitor improved cost savings, operational efficiencies, downtime, resource allocation, alert management, productivity, and customer satisfaction with advanced insights and tool consolidation.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.9
Elastic Observability's customer service is highly rated for responsiveness, efficiency, dedicated resources, and superior support compared to competitors.
Sentiment score
7.8
LogicMonitor's customer service is praised for fast responses, knowledgeable staff, 24/7 availability, and effective problem-solving, but varies by location.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
Elastic Observability offers good scalability, with node additions aiding expansion, despite varied efficiency experiences and subscription constraints.
Sentiment score
7.9
LogicMonitor scales efficiently for thousands of devices, offering automation, role-based access control, and seamless growth with minimal challenges.
Elastic Observability seems to have a good scale-out capability.
What is not scalable for us is not on Elastic's side.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Elastic Observability is stable, performs well under load, with configuration and storage monitoring ensuring consistent performance and reliability.
Sentiment score
8.1
LogicMonitor is highly stable, with minimal downtime, strong alerting features, frequent updates, and high user satisfaction.
It is very stable, and I would rate it ten out of ten based on my interaction with it.
Elastic Observability is really stable.
 

Room For Improvement

Elastic Observability struggles with automation, machine learning, complex interface, customization, and lacks regional support and performance metrics.
LogicMonitor users seek enhanced monitoring customization, automation, reporting, performance monitoring, and improved alarm, topology, dashboards, and email alert features.
It lacked some capabilities when handling on-prem devices, like network observability, package flow analysis, and device performance data on the infrastructure side.
One example is the inability to monitor very old databases with the newest version.
Elastic Observability could improve asset discovery as the current requirement to push the agent is not ideal.
 

Setup Cost

Elastic Observability offers competitive pricing for large enterprises, but smaller businesses may find it relatively expensive and complex.
LogicMonitor offers competitive pricing at $7.75 per device, with discounts, and justifies its cost through robust functionality.
Elastic Observability is cost-efficient and provides all features in the enterprise license without asset-based licensing.
The license is reasonably priced, however, the VMs where we host the solution are extremely expensive, making the overall cost in the public cloud high.
 

Valuable Features

Elastic Observability offers machine learning, centralized logging, seamless tool integration, scalability, and effective performance tracking with strong search and visualization capabilities.
Dashboards provide interactive visualization, custom monitoring, robust reporting, and integration with alerts, Google Maps, NetFlow, and AI-driven anomaly detection.
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.
the most valued feature of Elastic is its log analytics capabilities.
All the features that we use, such as monitoring, dashboarding, reporting, the possibility of alerting, and the way we index the data, are important.
 

Categories and Ranking

Elastic Observability
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
7th
Ranking in Container Monitoring
4th
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
7th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (7th), Log Management (12th)
LogicMonitor
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
11th
Ranking in Container Monitoring
5th
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
13th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (10th), AIOps (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Elastic Observability is 4.1%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LogicMonitor is 2.3%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Adelina Craciun - PeerSpot reviewer
Customization enables tailored monitoring and alerting across departments
The possibility to customize it has been quite useful. Whatever the other departments want to dream up, we implement. Whatever they want to monitor, the granularity of it, the changes in the threshold, and the anomalies that they want reported all require some development. So far, every single request has been fulfilled.
Henry-Steinhauer - PeerSpot reviewer
They have an active community of users who are willing to share their experiences and how they have extended the solution to do unusual things.
I'm a learn-by-example person, so it would be nice to have a cookbook for enterprise management. They have a rich API process, but there aren't many examples of how to do enterprise-style work. It is peculiar about how to do it for one device, but not necessarily thousands. LogicMonitor can effortlessly pull data from one item at a time. I have yet to find an excellent way to get LogicMonitor to show me all the WAN devices and how they're doing in terms of capacity.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Elastic Observability?
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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Elastic Observability?
Elastic Observability is cost-efficient and provides all features in the enterprise license without asset-based licensing. However, sizing and licensing information could be clearer.
What needs improvement with Elastic Observability?
Elastic Observability could improve asset discovery as the current requirement to push the agent is not ideal. Simplifying the parsing of logs and manual efforts would also be beneficial.
What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?
It actually depends on the exact purpose or requirements. Some tools are better for only network devices while others are better from a cloud monitoring or APM monitoring perspective. You can check...
What do you like most about LogicMonitor?
LogicMonitor helps us prevent potential downtime. It's pretty good. It generates low-level warnings that aren't necessarily preemptive but can still alert us to issues we should investigate. These ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LogicMonitor?
The pricing can vary yearly or monthly, depending on the clients we're working with and their size and scale. For example, the pricing for a customer with ten thousand licenses versus a hundred lic...
 

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Sample Customers

PSCU, Entel, VITAS, Mimecast, Barrett Steel, Butterfield Bank
Kayak, Zendesk, Ted Baker, Trulia, Sophos, iVision, TekLinks, Siemens
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