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Elastic Observability vs VMware Aria Operations for Applications comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.7
Elastic Observability's customer service is praised for responsiveness, support resources, and comprehensive documentation, with stable system reducing support needs.
No sentiment score available
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.0
Elastic Observability requires automation, improved metrics, advanced features, and better interfaces to address scalability, customization, and cost management challenges.
No sentiment score available
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.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
5.7
Elastic Observability offers strong scalability, receiving positive ratings, with improved performance in higher subscription tiers and cloud installations.
No sentiment score available
Elastic Observability seems to have a good scale-out capability.
What is not scalable for us is not on Elastic's side.
 

Setup Cost

Sentiment score
2.0
Elastic Observability is cost-efficient for large enterprises but can be pricey for startups, with varied deployment pricing options.
No sentiment score available
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.
Elastic Observability is cost-efficient and provides all features in the enterprise license without asset-based licensing.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Elastic Observability is highly stable and dependable, with fast performance and positive user feedback across diverse environments.
No sentiment score available
It is very stable, and I would rate it ten out of ten based on my interaction with it.
Elastic Observability is really stable.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.1
Elastic Observability offers cost-effective, scalable logging with machine learning, customization, and seamless Kibana integration for robust monitoring and security.
No sentiment score available
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.
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 Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
8th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
9th
Ranking in Container Monitoring
4th
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (13th)
VMware Aria Operations for ...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
40th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
42nd
Ranking in Container Monitoring
9th
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
32nd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Elastic Observability is 4.8%, up from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations for Applications is 1.8%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Monitoring Software
 

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.
Yves Sandfort - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights
Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more. The other thing for us is that while it is great that we have all these standard metrics, it would be good if we can also more easily define standard metrics to be consumed for our own application. At the moment, for a lot of applications, we have to reinvent the wheel every time. If there was something so that we can build our own packaging of metrics, it would be helpful. In the future, we might be deploying our software to other customers as well. So, they should make it easier to redeploy that. There should be more customizable dashboards. The Wavefront dashboards are very technical and a more business-oriented dashboard design would definitely help.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
6%
 

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 needs improvement with Elastic Observability?
I don't know how Elastic can improve. The integration feature I am using is very easy to implement.
What do you like most about VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?
VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support.
What needs improvement with VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?
It's hard to set up Tanzu clusters. It's hard to do a POC. Once you set up a customer's environment, you easily see the problems. The initial setup should be easier and more seamless.
 

Also Known As

No data available
Tanzu Observability, Wavefront, Wavefront by VMware, VMware Tanzu Observability
 

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Sample Customers

PSCU, Entel, VITAS, Mimecast, Barrett Steel, Butterfield Bank
1. Atlassian 2. Cisco 3. Databricks 4. DigitalOcean 5. Equinix 6. Fidelity Investments 7. Google 8. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 9. Honeywell 10. IBM 11. Intel 12. JetBlue Airways 13. LinkedIn 14. Lyft 15. Mastercard 16. Microsoft 17. MongoDB 18. Netflix 19. Nvidia 20. Oracle 21. PayPal 22. Pinterest 23. Qualcomm 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. SAP 27. Spotify 28. Square 29. TMobile 30. Twitter 31. Uber 32. VMware
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