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Market Segments
Enterprise (44.6% of reviews)
Mid-Market (43.3% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Month
Free Trial 5 Users Per Month
Elastic Observability
Star Rating
(87)4.2 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (44.6% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 3 pricing plansPagerDuty
Star Rating
(916)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (43.3% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Free Trial 5 Users Per Month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 4 pricing plansElastic Observability vs PagerDuty
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found PagerDuty easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with PagerDuty overall.
- Reviewers felt that PagerDuty meets the needs of their business better than Elastic Observability.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that PagerDuty is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of PagerDuty 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
PagerDuty
Free
Free Trial
5 Users Per Month
Start with on-call and incident response for small teams.
- 100/month international phone/SMS notifications included
- 1 On-call Schedule
- 1 Escalation Policy
Free Trial
Elastic Observability
Free Trial is available
PagerDuty
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.7
65
9.1
789
Ease of Use
7.3
67
8.6
796
Ease of Setup
6.9
24
8.3
422
Ease of Admin
6.7
20
8.5
409
Quality of Support
7.6
57
8.9
600
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
7.7
16
8.9
347
Product Direction (% positive)
7.9
66
8.4
786
Features by Category
Automation
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
9.6
49
Not enough data
9.5
47
Administration
Not enough data
9.8
49
Not enough data
9.6
49
Not enough data
9.7
49
Not enough data
9.6
48
Not enough data
9.6
47
Not enough data
9.8
47
Functionality
Not enough data
9.6
48
Not enough data
9.6
48
Not enough data
9.6
47
Agentic AI - Workload Automation
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
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Content Management
Not enough data
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Content Discovery
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Generative AI
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Functionality
Not enough data
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Agentic AI - Website Monitoring
Not enough data
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Not enough data
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Monitoring
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Administration
Not enough data
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Analysis
Not enough data
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Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
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Not enough data
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Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
Not enough data
9.2
151
Not enough data
9.5
168
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Verified
Not enough data
9.2
157
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Verified
Not enough data
7.8
15
Management Tools
Not enough data
9.2
155
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Verified
Not enough data
9.1
183
Not enough data
9.0
173
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Verified
Generative AI
Not enough data
8.0
42
Not enough data
8.1
42
Agentic AI - Incident Management
Not enough data
7.6
9
Not enough data
7.8
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
8.5
9
Not enough data
8.7
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Functionality
Not enough data
9.7
34
Not enough data
9.5
34
Not enough data
9.7
35
Issue Resolution
Not enough data
9.6
35
Not enough data
9.6
34
Not enough data
9.8
35
Management
Not enough data
9.6
36
Not enough data
9.7
36
Not enough data
9.6
36
Generative AI
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms
Not enough data
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Not enough data
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Not enough data
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Not enough data
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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
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
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Data Sources
Not enough data
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Analytics
Not enough data
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Metrics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
ServiceNow Apps
Not enough data
9.6
41
Not enough data
9.6
41
Agentic AI - ServiceNow Store Apps
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Data Preparation
8.7
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Analysis
9.0
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visualization
9.3
5
Not enough data
9.7
5
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Log Analysis
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)Hide 19 FeaturesShow 19 Features
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Response
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
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Not enough data
Performance
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Generative AI
Not enough data
8.5
28
Agentic AI - IT Alerting
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
7.4
7
Not enough data
8.8
7
Not enough data
7.6
7
Not enough data
7.6
7
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
8.1
7
Automation Support - Runbook Automation
Not enough data
9.0
8
Not enough data
8.3
7
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
8.6
7
Error Management - Runbook Automation
Not enough data
8.6
6
Not enough data
7.6
7
Not enough data
7.9
7
Customization - Runbook Automation
Not enough data
7.5
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Compliance and Reporting - Runbook Automation
Not enough data
8.6
6
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
8.1
7
Performance - Runbook Automation
Not enough data
8.3
7
Not enough data
8.8
7
Not enough data
8.3
6
Agentic AI - Runbook Automation
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
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Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Elastic Observability and PagerDuty are categorized as AIOps Platforms
Unique Categories
Elastic Observability is categorized as Log Monitoring, IoT Analytics Platforms, Website Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, Log Analysis, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and Insight Engines
PagerDuty is categorized as ServiceNow Store Apps, Incident Management, IT Alerting, Workload Automation, and Runbook Automation
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Elastic Observability
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
PagerDuty
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
26.5%
Computer Software
20.5%
Internet
7.2%
Telecommunications
4.8%
Retail
3.6%
Other
37.3%
Information Technology and Services
22.6%
Computer Software
21.4%
Financial Services
5.6%
Internet
5.4%
Retail
3.7%
Other
41.3%
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