Elastic Observability vs. Watchman Monitoring by Syncro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Watchman Monitoring by Syncro
Score 10.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Watchman Monitoring is a read-only IT Alerting, hardware monitoring, & high-availability beacon reporting SaaS designed for resale by IT professionals looking to provide proactive support to their offerings. The Watchman Monitoring Client has a single focus: to detect and report issues. Watchman Monitoring was acquired by Syncro (SyncroMSP) in 2021, and is now a Syncro brand.
$99
per month
Pricing
Elastic ObservabilityWatchman Monitoring by Syncro
Editions & Modules
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Getting Started
$99
per month 25 included computer records
In-House IT
$219
per month 250 included computer records
Consultant
$299
per month 1500 included computer records
Enterprise
Contact Sales
per month 1501+ included computer records
In-House IT Large
starting at $299
per month 251-1500+ included computer records
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Elastic ObservabilityWatchman Monitoring by Syncro
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$400 one-time fee (includes custom branding)
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Observability
-
Ratings
Watchman Monitoring by Syncro
9.7
1 Ratings
21% above category average
Remote monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Observability
-
Ratings
Watchman Monitoring by Syncro
7.0
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Software and hardware inventory00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Reporting
Comparison of Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Observability
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Ratings
Watchman Monitoring by Syncro
7.5
1 Ratings
4% below category average
Customizable reporting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Risk analysis00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Elastic ObservabilityWatchman Monitoring by Syncro
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Elastic ObservabilityWatchman Monitoring by Syncro
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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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
If you are in IT consulting or manage any fleet of computers, both Mac and PC (and yes Linux) - you should have this installed. It will be able to provide you the information needed to repair computers and avoid productivity loss by users.
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Pros
Elastic
  • Open source code base
  • Community support
  • Is fast in processing
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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
  • Super easy to deploy.
  • Integrates well with ZenDesk and YourComputerInventory.com.
  • Website is very clear and email to manage.
  • Support is awesome.
  • Super lightweight package.
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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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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
  • Would like to see non-computer deployment agent - such as Synology.
  • Since it's mainly reporting, this isn't necessary improvement, but it would be good if it can receive data - so in case we can't ping a machine, maybe use Watchman as a backdoor - but that would go against it's main principles.
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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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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
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Return on Investment
Elastic
  • Cost management.
  • Good customer increment.
  • Time management.
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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
  • I've been using it since the day it came out - there have so many times where a machine has had an error reported by Watchman that we've been able to save the client before something terrible happened.
  • The ROI is there - you can easily resell this product to your clients, or wrap it into your product offering.
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