Elastic Observability vs. IBM Instana
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Elastic Observability | Score8.8 out of 10 | N/A | Elastic Observability, from Elastic, the makers of Elasticsearch, is a solution that aims to bring logs, metrics, and APM based on the former Opbeat (acquired by Elastic in 2017) traces together at scale in a single stack so users can monitor and react to events happening anywhere in an IT environment. It's free and open to start, and adds the Logs, Metrics, APM (formerly Opbeat), and Uptime modules to the Elastic (ELK) Stack. | N/A |
 IBM Instana | Score8 out of 10 | N/A | Instana, an IBM company since the December 2020 acquisition, provides APM services for SOA, microservices, containerized applications and Kubernetes, and cloud native applications, as well as discovery and monitoring for IT assets. | $75 per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS) |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.0 | 8.5 |
| Usability | - | 8.3 |
| Support Rating | - | 4.5 |