Azure Network Watcher vs. Elastic Observability

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Network Watcher
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Azure Network Watcher monitors, diagnoses, and provides insights into network performance and health.N/A
Elastic Observability
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Elastic Observability, from Elastic, the makers of Elasticsearch, is a solution that aims to bring logs, metrics, and APM based on the former Opbeat (acquired by Elastic in 2017) traces together at scale in a single stack so users can monitor and react to events happening anywhere in an IT environment. It's free and open to start, and adds the Logs, Metrics, APM (formerly Opbeat), and Uptime modules to the Elastic (ELK) Stack.N/A
Pricing
Azure Network WatcherElastic Observability
Editions & Modules
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Azure Network WatcherElastic Observability
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
Azure Network WatcherElastic Observability
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Azure Network Watcher
8.3
4 Ratings
1% above category average
Elastic Observability
-
Ratings
Automated network device discovery8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Network monitoring8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Network capacity planning8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Network mapping8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reports8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Azure Network WatcherElastic Observability
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(4 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Network WatcherElastic Observability
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure Network Watcher is well suited to monitor or diagnose logs for azure virtual network, managing connection/relationship between virtual networks. Diagnose network traffic, network traffic etc. Overall, it is appropriate to use in monitoring, diagnostic and logging activities for resources in azure virtual network. It is mainly used in infrastructure as a service component.
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Elastic
We can use this Elastic Observability in our business problems such as Creating internal/operational efficiencies issues, customer relations/service, and business process outcomes issues. This product has a lot of features for the above problems. But this product may be having some issues when charting purposes. But it can adjust for that purpose.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • View resources and theri relationship
  • Diagnose network routing problems
  • View security rules for a network interface
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Elastic
  • Open source code base
  • Community support
  • Is fast in processing
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Cons
Microsoft
  • More granular visualization through the Azure Network. Ex. Seeing NSG Flow through each Hop.
  • Allow for more capabilities to view Connectivity through On-Premise Networks.
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Elastic
  • Difficult to setup/maintain
  • Search pattern bar could be more user-friendly
  • Premium subscription features are very expensive
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Azure Network Watcher can help with resources in the Cloud if this device is able to send traffic. We are using Azure Network Watcher in cases Solarwinds can't cover easily like API to load balancers & additional testing.
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Elastic
Splunk is a very good product but the licensing costs are high; we utilise the best of both worlds by using both products for slightly different purposes. We put the voluminous data with simple use cases in Elastic where it doesn't cost too much and can be searched quickly while putting the less voluminous data with more complex use cases in Splunk so we can take advantage of Splunk's very comprehensive but often much slower SPL search query language
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Positive impact as it helps in setting up critical alerts
  • Monitoring network, hardware
  • Customizable reports can be set which helps in business objective
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Elastic
  • Cost management.
  • Good customer increment.
  • Time management.
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