Compuware Strobe (discontinued) vs. Elastic Observability

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Compuware Strobe, later acquired by BMC, was a performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications used to pinpoint application inefficiencies causing excessive CPU consumption. The product has reached end of life.N/A
Elastic Observability
Score 9.0 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
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Elastic Observability
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Elastic Observability
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Elastic Observability
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
7.2
1 Ratings
7% below category average
Elastic Observability
-
Ratings
Application monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Database monitoring6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Threshold alerts8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Elastic Observability
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Elastic Observability
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Compuware Strobe is very essential if you are working in a multi-system environment to constantly measure the activity of your applications. My setup involves deploying bots to perform repetitive tasks. With Compuware Strobe, I'm able to conduct early tests on codes that reduce by great margins performance issues on the development cycle; It's why I'm making a good recommendation for it.
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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
Discontinued Products
  • Runs detailed analysis on captured data to aid in tuning applications.
  • It's possible to run early tests on the bots' codes to detect early performance issues.
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Elastic
  • Open source code base
  • Community support
  • Is fast in processing
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.
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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
Discontinued Products
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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
Discontinued Products
  • It has helped us identify issues affecting our and our clients' applications' performance.
  • Smoothened robots deployment.
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Elastic
  • Cost management.
  • Good customer increment.
  • Time management.
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