Elastic Observability vs. PathSolutions TotalView

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Elastic Observability
Score 9.0 out of 10
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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
PathSolutions TotalView
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
PathSolution’s TotalView is a network performance monitoring tool. PathSolutions emphasizes the platform’s issue diagnostics and recommended remediation assistance as a key differentiator.N/A
Pricing
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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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Features
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Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Observability
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Ratings
PathSolutions TotalView
8.9
3 Ratings
10% above category average
Automated network device discovery00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
Network monitoring00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Alerts00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Network capacity planning00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Packet capture analysis00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Network mapping00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings8.23 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(4 ratings)
7.3
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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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PathSolutions
TotalView is well suited for an infrastructure where you are looking for a cost-effective, additive network management tool for in-depth device diagnostic information. This will not be a one-stop shop application, but it does what is advertised very well. SNMP is required for configuration and adding additional devices is quick and simple. This product also works well with Shoretel VoIP systems and allows for a full overview of connected phones along with being able to view calls on an extension/IP basis.
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Pros
Elastic
  • Open source code base
  • Community support
  • Is fast in processing
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PathSolutions
  • The setup is fast and easy - 500 devices in 20 minutes.
  • The ability to go back a day or a week in time allows us to more easily troubleshoot the "what happened at 3 a.m. yesterday" question.
  • It gives us easily accessible stats for checks and balances like device types, counts, models, serial number etc.
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Cons
Elastic
  • Difficult to setup/maintain
  • Search pattern bar could be more user-friendly
  • Premium subscription features are very expensive
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PathSolutions
  • If you have some complexities in your network addressing, the network diagram tool will lay everything out automatically, but it will be confusing to look at. There is a way to edit the diagram so it looks more intuitive, but it may require some time to edit everything the right way.
  • TotalView will count virtual interfaces such as voice dial-peers and service modules as "ports," which counts against your license count. However, there is a way to edit each device to remove these "false positives" so it doesn't suck up licenses, but it can take some time to clean those up.
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Alternatives Considered
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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PathSolutions
The three tools listed do different things with some similarities. For us the biggest need was data analysis, semi-automatic troubleshooting, and data gathering and topology mapping. TotalView hit the most of these in the price point we were looking for. Each tool has "extras," but we felt that the extras provided by TotalView were good enough and that the other tools didn't justify the cost.
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Return on Investment
Elastic
  • Cost management.
  • Good customer increment.
  • Time management.
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PathSolutions
  • Wuite possibly the best spent money i have recommended in my 20+ year IT career.
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