Dynatrace vs Elastic Stack comparison

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Dynatrace and Elastic are both solutions in the Log Management category. Dynatrace is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.7, while Elastic is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.5. Dynatrace holds a 2.8% mindshare in Log Management, compared to Elastic’s 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Dynatrace users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Elastic users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Dynatrace and Elastic Stack compete in application performance and log management. While Dynatrace has an edge in analytics and AI-driven insights, Elastic Stack stands out for flexibility and an open-source model.

Features: Dynatrace includes robust monitoring capabilities, AI-driven problem detection, and comprehensive application observability. Elastic Stack offers powerful search capabilities, scalability, and a flexible plugin ecosystem for customization.

Room for Improvement: Dynatrace could enhance integration scope, optimize resource usage, and further refine analytics tools. Elastic Stack should improve security features, simplify setup processes, and address complex learning curves.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dynatrace provides a streamlined deployment process and proactive support, with users appreciating its quick responsiveness. Elastic Stack offers flexible deployment but requires significant setup time, and community-driven support can be complex for users.

Pricing and ROI: Dynatrace's setup costs are high but justified by its sophisticated toolset and ROI. Elastic Stack's open-source model offers cost-saving potential, though it requires investment in skilled resources for maximum ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace

Ranking in Log Management

6th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

359

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Mobile APM (3rd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (2nd), AI Observability (3rd)

Elastic Stack

Ranking in Log Management

21st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Dynatrace is 2.8%, down from 5.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Stack is 1.7%, down from 5.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dynatrace	2.8%
Elastic Stack	1.7%
Other	95.5%

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Manish Indupuri

senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

AI-driven insights have reduced downtime and improved cross-team collaboration

We encountered some challenges while using Dynatrace. Although the initial setup was smooth, fine-tuning alert thresholds and custom metrics took some time. Another challenge was that Dynatrace charges based on host units, so we had to carefully plan our agent deployments. The licensing model is expensive. Additionally, the complexity of setup is an issue. While OneAgent and auto-discover services are powerful, the setup is more complex compared to other tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. These integrations are simple and basic, but Dynatrace setup requires more complexity based on the environment. For new users wanting to use Dynatrace, it is difficult. However, the AI-related solutions and metrics took us to the next level for identifying and fixing things. Dynatrace requires an agent for operation. OneAgent is powerful, but it is also resource-heavy. On lightweight nodes or older systems, the agent can slightly impact performance. If Dynatrace could implement a lightweight agent behavior, we could make things faster. Additionally, if Dynatrace could add a long-term retention policy so that we could store more data and find fine-grained details, that would help us. While Dynatrace managed edition supports on-premises deployment, the SaaS version depends on cloud connectivity. For highly regulated or air-gapped environments, setup and updates can be challenging. Although the initial setup is smooth, if someone wants to fine-tune it and fully understand the tool end-to-end, it could be tricky.

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Lakshmi Bodepu

Senior Consultant at Skillfield

Offers robust out-of-the-box integrations and streamlines logging processes effortlessly

There are improvements needed for Elastic Stack. It is mostly based on Lucene, and the heart of Elastic Stack is Lucene, which has some limitations. Anything built on top of Lucene often feels an add-on, and that includes vector databases. Elastic Stack can store vector embeddings as well and perform AI and machine learning tasks out of the box without excessive configuration. The main improvements involve increasing speed and compression capabilities; I have seen databases that claim to achieve significantly better compression. While Elastic Stack can manage vast amounts of data, if the mapping is not specified correctly, the indexing time can be slow, especially with many events per second. Improper mapping usually means that every document received gets indexed for all fields, which is not desired. Elastic consultants typically optimize this, but out of the box, as data volume increases, scaling becomes necessary. They are working on these improvements in new versions.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Synthetic Web Monitoring allows us to automatically react to any issues regarding site reliability."

"It allows you to better utilize and focus your talent, and tell management that you are not only looking at problems, but how you can ultimately make the product better for the end user."

"On the Managed side tech support has been pretty good. Stuff gets turned around pretty quickly. With them being able to do the remote management from the back-end, they are able to fix stuff up if they need to."

"The daily metrics which help us analyze the page composition and the corresponding performance metrics so we can quickly and easily determine when something has changed, to aid in root cause analysis."

"PurePaths. The ability to see the transaction flow of the web request. It's valuable because our developers, when we have an issue, they can drill down to see exactly where in the application, the call in the application; where the high response time is, or where something is wrong."

"Dynatrace is the market leader for good reason."

"We are able to drill down and detect what the problems are; providing high-quality performance monitoring."

"Dynatrace has been better than the other tools that I have used in past."

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"The tool's most powerful aspect is its search engine capability. It's a highly effective and powerful solution for searching. We use it in professional and student projects at universities, and it delivers promising results."

"The machine learning capabilities are valuable."

"I have benefited from the security features provided by X-Pack in Elastic Stack, particularly the SIEM capability, which is very good for checking security issues."

"The biggest strength of Elastic Stack is its brilliant archiving capabilities."

"The scripting model in Elastic Stack allows me to query logs and then put the data into Grafana."

"The solution's technical support is good...Elastic Stack offers good value for value for money based on the product's features and what they offer."

"The tool is huge, and it performs brilliantly. I tested it for malware, and within two weeks of launching, the product alerted me about a network intrusion. This was a tough test for it, but it performed admirably. The alerting system is excellent, and searching through logs is incredibly efficient. What's impressive is that all three products or options are integrated into one solution. This means I don't need separate logging, monitoring, or antivirus solutions."

"The only beneficial aspect of Elastic Stack is that it's open source."

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Cons

"We have had problems with our middle layer application implementation."

"We are still struggling a bit with finding an answer quickly."

"From the Dynatrace SaaS platform, they talk about the APIs. The approach they take is, "We create the APIs, you use them however you want." I like it, that gives us flexibility. But at the same time, if your company does not have a huge number of APM specialists, or it does not have the time and resources available to spend on these kind of technology developments, it would be helpful if there were out-of-the-box solutions available from the platform. I would certainly consider that, because that would make us go to market much faster, rather than redeveloping our own solutions based on those APIs."

"We are waiting on the new features to see how they perform."

"Ability to better identify SDQ script errors would be helpful."

"A useful addition for known issues would be the ability to automatically perform certain activities as a first attempt to resolve issues which are creating a problem."

"DevOps plugin monitoring tools need improvement."

"The dashboard tool needs to be improved. We need more options, because the look and feel is too old-fashioned."

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"It lacks a clear NDR (Network Detection and Response) feature. If Elastic could enhance this aspect, it would significantly boost its capabilities."

"The stability of the solution is rated as three or four out of ten as we frequently encounter issues."

"There could be better documentation."

"The main issue related to Elastic Stack is in the area of its licensing."

"When people try to move the data from another source to Elastic Stack for visualization, they face challenges when connecting to Elastic Stack from such different sources."

"Support could be improved. The error code is not helpful. We have to ask for it or pass it on to community forums."

"Improvements are needed in the solution in areas like SOAR and TIP, where there are certain shortcomings."

"The solution is expensive, particularly the training and certification. If customers want to increase their use of Elastic Stack, they should consider reducing the cost of certification and training."

More Elastic Stack cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its licensing is complicated or not transparent."

"It is quite expensive for startups."

"Its license is a bit expensive. We renew it yearly."

"The product is really fast to implement and gives customers instant value. This is important, because it reduces costs on the implementation."

"Time to value was surprisingly fast."

"We found an issue within the first week of ownership that has been costing us more than the entire license cost."

"There is a license cost, which is obviously more expensive than an open-source solution, but for the return on investment from what you get from it, it's a great investment. Of course, it could always be cheaper."

"It's more expensive than other solutions, but worth it. We use full APM monitoring on our primary systems, but only resource monitoring on lesser systems. We shift licenses around our environment when a deeper dive into lesser systems is required."

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"The pricing is reasonable."

"I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."

"It depends on the specifics, but generally, Elastic is economical for certain use cases."

"I used the open-source version of Elastic Stack, because of which I did not have to pay anything."

"If I compare Elastic Stack to the other products in the market, I would say that the tool is available at a competitive price."

"The product is expensive."

"We are using the open-source community version of the product."

"Ultimately, the pricing depends upon the capacity planning that the enterprise architect does."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	80
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	299

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?

The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not f...

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What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?

While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything els...

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Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Elastic Stack?

My experience with Elastic Stack pricing indicates that it is node-based. While I do not have complete pricing details, they are available online. If I choose Elastic Cloud, it includes licensing a...

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What needs improvement with Elastic Stack?

I would like to improve Elastic Stack by addressing the current big problem we face with importing logs and log files, such as syslogs. To import these log files, we need to design the ingest pipel...

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What is your primary use case for Elastic Stack?

Elastic Stack is primarily used for everything related to security, including security systems, checking the security system, and also servers and networks.

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Overview

Dynatrace is advancing observability for today’s digital businesses, helping to transform the complexity of modern digital ecosystems into powerful business assets. By leveraging AI-powered insights, Dynatrace enables organizations to analyze, automate, and innovate faster to drive their business forward. To learn more about how Dynatrace can help your business, visit www.dynatrace.com, visit our blog and follow us on LinkedIn and X @dynatrace.

Dynatrace

Elastic Stack is a comprehensive tool for log management, observability, indexing, and security, widely adopted for managing logs, alert creation, SIEM, SOC, and threat analysis. It integrates with CloudStrike and Endpoint Security, enhancing search capabilities and Application Performance Monitoring.

Elastic Stack offers powerful solutions for logging, data storage, and visualization with Kibana. It allows MSSPs to efficiently manage security and assists companies with data analysis. It's known for its easy implementation, scalability, real-time monitoring, and extensive integrations. The open-source nature and community support add significant value, making it a popular choice across industries. While highly capable, there is a need for enhancement in dashboard implementation, data integration, and certain advanced features. Licensing, compatibility, and cost-related improvements can further elevate its efficacy.

What are the key features of Elastic Stack?

Powerful Search Capabilities: Offers robust, efficient searching across vast datasets
Scalability: Easily handles large volumes of data
Anomaly Detection: Identifies irregular patterns in data
Machine Learning: Enhances data analysis with intelligent insights
Real-Time Monitoring: Provides up-to-date monitoring of applications and systems
Extensive Integration: Supports diverse tools and solutions

What benefits should users consider?

Ease of Implementation: Quick setup and integration into existing systems
Robust Security: Comprehensive monitoring and analysis capabilities
Community Support: Ongoing improvements and guidance from a dedicated community
Hybrid Deployment: Flexibility in using both cloud and on-premise solutions

In healthcare, Elastic Stack enhances database search capabilities, aiding in patient record management and data retrieval. Managed Security Service Providers use it for comprehensive security management, integrating it with tools like firewalls and authentication systems. Companies benefit from its application in Application Performance Monitoring and its flexibility in adapting to hybrid environments.

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Sample Customers

TD Bank, Zurich North America, Accenture, Macquarie, United Airlines, Raymond James, BT, Vodafone, Air France-KLM, TELUS, American Airlines, Air Canada, ADT, Virgin Money

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