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At a Glance
Market Segments
Enterprise (45.1% of reviews)
Mid-Market (44.4% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Month
No pricing available
Elastic Observability
Star Rating
(87)4.2 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (45.1% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 3 pricing plansOpenText IDOL
Star Rating
(10)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (44.4% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about OpenText IDOLElastic Observability vs OpenText IDOL
- Reviewers felt that OpenText IDOL meets the needs of their business better than Elastic Observability.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that OpenText IDOL is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of OpenText IDOL over Elastic Observability.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Elastic Observability
Elastic Cloud Serverless
Pay As You Go
Per Month
A fully automated, usage-based platform. Ideal for variable workloads where compute scales independently from storage, requiring zero capacity planning or infrastructure management.
- No-ops management: Elastic handles all upgrades and scaling
- Decoupled compute and storage scaling
- Specialized VCUs for Ingest, Search, and Machine Learning
OpenText IDOL
No pricing availableFree Trial
Elastic Observability
Free Trial is available
OpenText IDOL
No trial information availableRatings
Meets Requirements
8.8
64
9.4
6
Ease of Use
7.3
66
8.3
6
Ease of Setup
6.7
23
Not enough data
Ease of Admin
6.7
20
Not enough data
Quality of Support
7.6
56
9.3
5
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
7.7
16
Not enough data
Product Direction (% positive)
7.8
65
10.0
6
Features by Category
Content Management
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Content Discovery
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Generative AI
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Functionality
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Agentic AI - Website Monitoring
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Monitoring
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Administration
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Analysis
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Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
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AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
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Functionality
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Issue Resolution
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Management
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Generative AI
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Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms
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Visibility
9.2
6
Not enough data
8.3
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
9.0
5
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Log Monitoring
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Data Sources
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Analytics
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Metrics
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Compatibility
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Agentic AI - Enterprise Search Software
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Search Queries
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AI powered search - Enterprise Search Software
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Functionality
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Compatibility - Enterprise Search Software
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Functionality - Enterprise Search Software
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Search Queries - Enterprise Search Software
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Data Preparation
8.7
5
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9.0
5
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Analysis
9.0
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
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9.3
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
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Visualization
9.3
5
Not enough data
9.7
5
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Log Analysis
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Application Performance Monitoring (APM)Hide 19 FeaturesShow 19 Features
Not enough data
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Monitoring
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Response
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Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
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Performance
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Functionality
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Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Elastic Observability and OpenText IDOL are categorized as Insight Engines
Unique Categories
Elastic Observability is categorized as AIOps Platforms, Log Monitoring, IoT Analytics Platforms, Website Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, Log Analysis, and Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
OpenText IDOL is categorized as Enterprise Search Software
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Elastic Observability
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
OpenText IDOL
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
26.8%
Computer Software
20.7%
Internet
7.3%
Telecommunications
4.9%
Retail
3.7%
Other
36.6%
Information Technology and Services
33.3%
Non-Profit Organization Management
11.1%
Insurance
11.1%
Information Services
11.1%
Computer Software
11.1%
Other
22.2%
Discussions
what is the best way to sync data with elastic search from SQL server
3 Comments
AT
Write a process that convert each line into Json format and load it into ElasticSearchRead more
Do elastic search use indexes to store the information.
1 Comment
AD
I'll take a stab at answering this question though I'm not 100% sure exactly what you are after.
The way I would explain it is that in elasticsearch an...Read more
Can I use Elasticsearch for free?
1 Comment
GO
https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq
Self-Managed: Yes. From the very beginning, the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash — has been...Read more
OpenText IDOL has no discussions with answers
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