Elastic is a very capable application monitoring solution that can scale easily as your organisation grows
April 29, 2022
Elastic is a very capable application monitoring solution that can scale easily as your organisation grows
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Logs
Overall Satisfaction with Elastic Observability
We utilise Elastic in our organisation to keep track of all the logs generated by the various internal services that we have running; we utilise it for monitoring in general but a frequent use case involves looking at logs for incident response purposes to figure out what is actually happening and try to understand any potential impact to the application so that we can take steps to avoid any downtime or negative consquences
- 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
- The DSL advanced search syntax query language can be confusing to use as you have to maintain correct JSON formatting at all times
- More integrations with other common alerting/monitoring/ticketing platforms
- GUI hasn't had an update in a while, could benefit from an overhaul with more modern elements
- Default dashboards are suitable but there could be room for improvements e.g. more advanced custom dashboards
- Ability to relatively cheaply scale your log collection infrastructure as the needs of your organisation grow
- Search results return quicker than in comparable platforms from other vendors
- Reliable operation without crashes or downtime
- Search query language is suitable for most use cases
- GUI interface is not hard to navigate and can be learned quickly by new colleagues without previous experience working with the product
- Stopped worrying about unexpected licensing costs arising from all the extra logging our applications will generate in the future as our company grows its customer base
- Engineers are happy since product is stable and maintenance is not painful
- Users are happy because search results return quickly
- We stopped having to make concessions in terms of having to filter out certain data which could turn out later on to be valuable and required
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
Do you think Elastic Observability delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Elastic Observability's feature set?
Yes
Did Elastic Observability live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Elastic Observability go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Elastic Observability again?
Yes