Amazon CloudSearch vs Kibana

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Cloudsearch can be suitable for some queries that require fast data. For example, in our case, we used CloudSearch, in a tool called Global Search. That will search everything like names, emails and a lot of stuff in our application. If you want fast data and you have a simple query, Global Search isn't appropriate for you.

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Verified User

Engineer in Product Management

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 51-200 employees

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It's well suited to creating dashboards for getting an overview of what is going on with an application.

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Nick Horvath

Software Architect

ScivantageFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon CloudSearch

Kibana

Customizable dashboards

Amazon CloudSearch

Kibana

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Report sharing and collaboration

Amazon CloudSearch

Kibana

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Pros

Really fast queries
Good Reporting
Reduce the cost of the server

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Verified User

Engineer in Product Management

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 51-200 employees

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searching
near real-time

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Cristian Klein

Cloud Native Architect

ElastisysComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Can take some time to implement
The initial configuration can be tricky
Takes some time to update the values

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Verified User

Engineer in Product Management

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 51-200 employees

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Some performance issues with large datasets.
Linking to dashboards makes extremely long urls.
Lack of reports.

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Nick Horvath

Software Architect

ScivantageFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Kibana 8.3

Based on 2 answers

We did not use the official Kibana support. Documentation was easy enough to follow.

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Cristian Klein

Cloud Native Architect

ElastisysComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I didn't investigate the best alternatives to CloudSearch, but did help with implementing this feature in our application. But from what i tested and used - Cloudsearch is very fast to get queries. Some negative points can be the time to implement this and some configurations that can be tricky.

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Verified User

Engineer in Product Management

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 51-200 employees

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Kibana is free; it was the first and only thing we've tried in this area.

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Nick Horvath

Software Architect

ScivantageFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Positive Point - Reduced the server load
Negative point - Not suitable for all queries
Negative Point - Time to implement this feature

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Verified User

Engineer in Product Management

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 51-200 employees

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reduces downtime
increases developer velocity

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Cristian Klein

Cloud Native Architect

ElastisysComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Amazon CloudSearch

Kibana

Amazon CloudSearch

Kibana

Amazon CloudSearch vs Kibana