Elastic Observability vs. SolarWinds Observability

Great platform for managing application and server logs at a large scale. Elasticsearch can be integrated into 3rd-party software. For example, when combined with Kibana, beats, and logstash to build a full ELK stack it is very powerful and extremely useful for log evaluation, analysis showing detailed information, and creating a monitoring system.

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For mid-market and larger, HCO provides a highly available single pane of glass. The user and group management provides a granular ability to deploy to the various areas of the support and engineering teams. Integration to ITSM platforms ensures that information from the platform flows in real time to the right people.

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• Licensing model is fair compared with other vendors that charge much more
• Ability to scale and ingest a lot of data without having to worry too much about performance issues that may crop up
• Searches return very fast
• GUI searching interface and filters are intuitive and suitable for new users

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• unlimited APEs included
• all modules under one platform
• overall cost savings when compared to buying multiple APEs and modules, NetFlow NCM, Ipam, etc.

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• User Interface.
• Dashboarding.
• Charting issues.

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• Please fix the time zones issue. Events are in UTC, Charts in the user's Local Time, Alerts come in through with Main Server timestamp - it's all over the place & it's been like that for so long. We are a large corp, the teams span time zones and trying to work with teams across the globe is made so difficult by this.
• The inability to ingest the tags from AWS Cloud watch and the countless posts / feature requests on thwack complaining about this that just get ignored. It's such a basic feature of Cloud & I don't want to have to own a different product to use such an fundamental part of cloud.
• Maintenance Windows - why can we not set a reoccurring window from the web ui in 2022?
• SAM - Manage applications, why is there no search bar to filter through applications. When you scale out to enterprise size this is so annoying trying to guess which page to land on to find the application / device I'm looking for.
• http://hostname/Orion/APM/Admin/Applications/Default.aspx
• Half baked features being released - Log Analyzer shipped with no resources for the node details page. The Free version from 2016 had more available in it.

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- decent ease of use - good training materials - good documentation - acceptable level of expected knowledge

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Elastic observability has a lot of features and good customer support. And Overall cost is good. Product functionality and performance are good but have some charting issues. But it is good. Elastic observability has a product roadmap and future vision. And it also has a good and strong user community with a lot of people engaging with good customer support for all needs.

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Solarwinds has the best overlap of the two others I've mentioned - the other two tools (Datadog and Dynatrace) are great in their own way but Solarwinds is just good at everything; if I had to pick one tool of the above, it would be Solarwinds for the compatibility and ease of use, the other tools are more focused on being great at certain things while Solarwinds is the jack of all trades.

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• Flexibility to store, search and aggregate any type of data, regardless of data source.

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• Helps us maintain application availability
• Helps us shorten unplanned downtime
• Provides these benefits at a fair price

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