Elastic Observability Reviews & Product Details

OpenTelemetry-native observability for fast, AI-driven root cause analysis Search, analyze, and act with logs, metrics, and traces. SRE leaders aim to proactively prevent downtime, simplify tool stacks, and reduce toil, but multi-cloud complexity and fragmented toolsets create visibility gaps that make it hard to stay ahead. OTel-native and AI-powered, Elastic Observability ingests and correlates petabytes of telemetry across your applications, services, and infrastructure, in real-time. Accelerate troubleshooting with built-in agentic workflows and an AI Assistant that goes well beyond chat to bolster team expertise and guide investigations, grounded with context from your organizational knowledge-bases. More data, more problems? Not anymore. Most observability and logging solutions weren’t built for today’s scale. Elastic is. Our architecture is designed to handle petabytes of logs with indexing, compression, and efficient searchable storage so you can keep all the telemetry you need, without breaking the bank. Store more, spend less, and resolve issues faster with a scalable, open, and extensible platform that unifies visibility across your entire environment.

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Ashutosh A.

Software Engineer Trainee

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/18/2020

"An amazing search engine to search various fields using a easy single query!"

4/5

What do you like best about Elastic Observability?

Some of the best things in elastic search are that it is open-source which means it's available free of cost and promises good community support. Due to this, a lot of learning resources and forums are accessible to assist and resolve the problems being faced. It facilitates searching for multiple fields in a single query, provides performance enhancement by indexing every field in a document. Also, it provides the availability of horizontal scaling, which further improves performance. It provides continuous node checking which also prevents data loss. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Observability?

Elastic search doesn't provide any measure to manipulate overrunning of resources at any moment of time, it can also lead to data corruption in case overrunning occurs. Unavailability to cope with an atomic set of transactions. The absence of an access control mechanism is also another issue. Focusses more on indexing rather than backups and reliability which can also be really troubling at some moments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elastic Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using elastic search as a central log search engine to analyze and search for multiple pieces of information from a single source in real-time. It provides a very easy and efficient way to search through large data and execute complex queries. In case, if load increases in the future, it also provides an option for horizontal scaling and intensifying enforcement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sahit Kumar Reddy J.

Senior Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/24/2020

"Fast and efficient search with large data sets"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Observability?

Different applications data can be stored and used to search faster. The integration of APM is an added advantage which provides detail trace of the requests. Also with beats agents like metric beat, it will able to provide Metrics. We can create visualisations and consolidate them into single dashboard which is a wonderful feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Observability?

A little extra documentation with known/expected errors. The security and alerting comes with an extra cost which is bit high. IntelliSense feature needs to be improved. Need to provide extra examples with painless script by elastic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Elastic Observability:

If you considering a simple use cases of APM, Logs, Metrics, Uptime you can try the free version. Also choosing right machine with RAM, storage matters. Go for paid version only if you are looking for security, machine learning and alerting features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elastic Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Consolidated dashboard with different visualisations. Paid version provides alerting to emails/webhooks. The logs, metrics and uptime all can be found within the Kibana. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/7/2021

"log monitoring tool for prod/non-prod"

5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Observability?

accessible to tail logs and search for errors in realtime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Observability?

The graphical presentation could be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/10/2021

"Elasticsearch for Big Data"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Observability?

It was my first experience working with big data and this tool made it super easy to comprehend and to improve my skills. The information available for it is great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Observability?

I don´t have a major negative critic about it, to say the truth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Elastic Observability:

It is one of the tools that is growing on the market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elastic Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can´t specify too much because it is confidential data, but it was to deal with huge amounts of data and also to do some text analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/9/2020

"A lot of promises, way to go Kibana!"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Observability?

Customization is amazing! Being browser based, it unlocks a plethora of options and plug ins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Observability?

The same browser based makes it heavily dependant on the user technical knowledge to take complete advantage. Not so intuitive. User has to think through to make some meaning vizzes. Gradually catching up on the intuitiveness part, but way to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Elastic Observability:

Performance is not the best when you load it heavily. If your org permits take advantage of the latest Add-ons. they are a life saver. And if you have a SQL Interface accessible use it. Makes life easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elastic Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reporting solutions particularly for logs. Still exploring the options. Key benefits being the support from the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ezzeddine A.

Computer Science Student

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/29/2019

"It was a good experience using elasticsearch search engine"

5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Observability?

Elasticsearch is NO-SQL search engine full of features and support document format. It support REST API and makes it easy for user to send a search request using any language (backend). Also, if the document type is not recognized by elasticsearch, it adds it automatically which is awesome. Furthermore, the fact that elasticsearch output the search request result in JSON format make it a life saver especially for front-end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Observability?

Honestly, I can't think of any major bugs or cons worth mentioning but I would say that the document upload speed (even using bluk) is a bit slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Elastic Observability:

I advice anyone looking for a NO-SQL search engine which stores its data as documents to go for elasticsearch, it is really easy to implement and the fact that it support json format makes it easy for anyone to parse the search result to the front end Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elastic Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used elasticsearch during my internship at tunisia in sagemcom company. my task was to create a NO-SQL cluster with document format and store certain log files and data in it Since elasticsearch supported document format, I went for it and it was a really good decision. Now, I have my own search engine with multiple cluster (also backups) and the data stored can be accessed easily by using a search API and parsing the JSON result. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/9/2020

"No documentation"

0/5

What do you like best about Elastic Observability?

It's free, you can use docker to set it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Observability?

Configuration is difficult to get right because of a lack of proper documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

oussema b.

Computer science student

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/29/2019

"One of the best available NO-SQL search engines"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Observability?

Elasticsearch stores data as documents. the storage is very flexible since when it doesn't recognize a new type of document, it add it automatically. Also, your data is safe because it uses clustering and backup nodes. Furthermore, when using search on Rest API, the data is returned in JSON which is amazing and supported for every front-end and backend framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Observability?

The storage speed in bulk (using bulk API) is faster than the typical storage (one by one) but it is still slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Elastic Observability:

If you are looking for a NO-SQL search engine supporting document types, I advice you to go for elasticsearch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elastic Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used elasticsearch during my internship at sagemcom. the goal was to build a monitoring and dashboarding tool using kibana. I used logstash to extract the data and store it in elasticsearch for easy access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aymen H.

Junior Research Scientist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/31/2019

"Made my Job a lot easier"

5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Observability?

Elasticsearch support JSON format which makes it a lot easier for developers to integrate it with the backend. It has a powerful REST API and creates redundancy to avoid the loss of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Observability?

When doing many search request, the server shutdowns sometimes. Also, the speed of accessing the data even when using the bulk API is low. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Elastic Observability:

I advice anyone looking for a NO--SQL search engine supporting document types to take a look at elasticsearch. Its not hard to setup and I'm sure you will not regret it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elastic Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

I worked on elasticseardh during my internship. My Job was to create a NO-SQL clusters and store data comming from an ETL tool in them. I choosed elasticsearch because it support document types and has a very powerfull java API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/19/2020

"Probably the best free logs visualisation software."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Observability?

Quite rich query language. A lot of different visualisations (graphs, charts, tables and etc). Dashboards. Fast. With premium pack - reports and etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Observability?

UI filters do not support regexp (but you can put your regexp code manually). No reports or export in free version. Interface might be confusing for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.