Elastic Observability vs. Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Splunk APM is an application performance monitor that uses AI to drive troubleshooting of issues that arise within applications.
$55
per month
Pricing
Elastic ObservabilitySplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Editions & Modules
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Standard
$55 ($660 billed annually)
Per Host, Per Month
Enterprise
$85 ($1,020 billed annually)
Per Host, Per Month
Enterprise (Usage-based Price)
Per TAPM
Trace Analyzed Per Minute
Standard (Usage-based Price)
Per TAPM
Trace Analyzed Per Minute
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Elastic ObservabilitySplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSplunk APM offers Host-based Pricing or Usage-based Pricing, billed annually. Significant Volume Discounts offered.
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Community Pulse
Elastic ObservabilitySplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
Elastic ObservabilitySplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Observability
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Ratings
Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
7.8
9 Ratings
2% above category average
Application monitoring00 Ratings8.29 Ratings
Database monitoring00 Ratings7.79 Ratings
Application performance management console00 Ratings7.89 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings7.49 Ratings
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User Ratings
Elastic ObservabilitySplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(4 ratings)
8.1
(9 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(9 ratings)
User Testimonials
Elastic ObservabilitySplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
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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Splunk
Good for below cases 1. There is a front end and need to correlate data with front end data 2. multiple microservices and need to check the health of each system 3. correlate data from various sources 4. Application performance is a key to be captured 5. application performance is a key metric.
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Pros
Elastic
  • Open source code base
  • Community support
  • Is fast in processing
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Splunk
  • Detect and Troubleshoot, which allows team to eliminate errors.
  • Dashboard creates a one stop location for environment health
  • Provides visibility, access to logs and user data real time.
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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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Splunk
  • I wish Splunk Application Performance Monitoring could integrate with packet capture and analysis tools and provide the integrated analysis results on each tier of the application
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Usability
Elastic
No answers on this topic
Splunk
Splunk is a great tool for log mining. It is less time-consuming and easy to use. It provides high security, it has customisable dashboards. Furthermore, it acts as a search head, and it gives real-time status. It has the ability to collect data from any source and multiple sources, and it can correlate them.
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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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Splunk
It is good that the correlation analysis and the cause of the failure can be analyzed more extensively through the collection of many data. It is good because it provides a user interface (usability) well and can be used conveniently.
It is good because it can utilize anomaly detection through various AI-based ML models.
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Return on Investment
Elastic
  • Cost management.
  • Good customer increment.
  • Time management.
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Splunk
  • It gave us more quicker alerts in a organize way to distribute to specific audience.
  • Helped us to improve our uptime by getting pro-active alerts via emails
  • More collaboration in a DevOps culture
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