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Top 10 Elasticsearch Alternatives & Competitors

(80)4.2 out of 5

The Enterprise Search Software solutions below are the most common alternatives that users and reviewers compare with Elastic Observability. Other important factors to consider when researching alternatives to Elastic Observability include visualization tools and dashboards. The best overall Elastic Observability alternative is Datadog. Other similar apps like Elastic Observability are Dynatrace, AppDynamics, checkmk, and IBM Instana. Elastic Observability alternatives can be found in Enterprise Search Software but may also be in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools or Enterprise Monitoring Software.

Best Paid & Free Alternatives to Elastic Observability

Datadog
Dynatrace
AppDynamics
checkmk
IBM Instana
Splunk Enterprise
Sentry
New Relic

Top 10 Alternatives to Elastic Observability Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

Browse options below. Based on reviewer data, you can see how Elastic Observability stacks up to the competition, check reviews from current & previous users in industries like Information Technology and Services, Computer Software, and Internet, and find the best product for your business.

Datadog

By Datadog

(541)4.3 out of 5

Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.

Categories in common with Elasticsearch:

Reviewers say compared to Elastic Observability, Datadog is:

Slower to reach roi

Easier to set up

Easier to admin

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Dynatrace

By Dynatrace

(1,323)4.5 out of 5

Dynatrace has redefined how you monitor today’s digital ecosystems. AI-powered, full stack and completely automated, it’s the only solution that provides answers, not just data, based on deep insight into every user, every transaction, across every application. The world’s leading brands trust Dynatrace to optimize customer experiences, innovate faster and modernize IT operations with absolute confidence.

Categories in common with Elasticsearch:

Reviewers say compared to Elastic Observability, Dynatrace is:

Slower to reach roi

Easier to set up

More expensive

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EventSentry

(41)4.7 out of 5

A Hybrid SIEM solution combining real-time (event) log monitoring with comprehensive system health & network monitoring that provides its users with a complete picture of their servers and endpoints. The included security event log normalization & correlation engine with descriptive email alerts provides additional context and presents cryptic Windows security events in easy to understand reports that offer insight beyond what is available from raw events. Various integrations & multi-tenancy available.

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Reviewers say compared to Elastic Observability, EventSentry is:

Slower to reach roi

Easier to set up

Easier to admin

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AppDynamics

By Cisco

(375)4.3 out of 5

An application performance management solution that monitors every line of code to help resolve application issues, make user experience improvements, and monitor application performance.

Categories in common with Elasticsearch:

Reviewers say compared to Elastic Observability, AppDynamics is:

Slower to reach roi

Easier to admin

Easier to set up

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checkmk

By Checkmk

(232)4.7 out of 5

Helping you stay up and running from simple to the most complex environments

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Reviewers say compared to Elastic Observability, checkmk is:

Slower to reach roi

Easier to set up

Easier to admin

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IBM Instana

By IBM

(389)4.4 out of 5

Instana automatically discovers, maps, and monitors all services and infrastructure components across on-prem and cloud, providing AI-driven application context, issue remediation to enhance IT operations. Instana’s zero-configuration dashboards help reduce toil for SRE and DevOps teams, helping them spend more innovating than troubleshooting. Its automated playbooks seamlessly address common issues and precise ML-driven alerts help manage rapid change, thereby enhancing infrastructure availability. These capabilities in help in predicting and managing IT budgets to support increase in demand during peak cycles.

Categories in common with Elasticsearch:

Reviewers say compared to Elastic Observability, IBM Instana is:

Slower to reach roi

Easier to set up

Easier to admin

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Splunk Enterprise

By Cisco

(417)4.3 out of 5

Splunk is a software platform for machine data that enables customers to gain real-time Operational Intelligence.

Categories in common with Elasticsearch:

Reviewers say compared to Elastic Observability, Splunk Enterprise is:

Slower to reach roi

More expensive

Easier to admin

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Sentry

By Functional Software, Inc.

(114)4.5 out of 5

Sentry gives you insight into the errors that affect your customers.

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Reviewers say compared to Elastic Observability, Sentry is:

Easier to admin

Easier to set up

More usable

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New Relic

By New Relic

(482)4.4 out of 5

New Relic is the industry's largest and most comprehensive cloud-based instrumentation platform to help customers create more perfect software.

Categories in common with Elasticsearch:

Reviewers say compared to Elastic Observability, New Relic is:

Slower to reach roi

Easier to set up

Easier to admin

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LogicMonitor

By LogicMonitor

(602)4.5 out of 5

LogicMonitor is the SaaS-based, automated performance monitoring platform that provides agile IT Ops teams with the visibility and actionable metrics they need to ensure the availability of services and applications running on complex and distributed infrastructure.

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