Application performance monitoring for Elastic Stack
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Entry price
Free plan available, paid tiers above
Biggest pro
Part of Elastic Stack
Biggest con
Resource intensive
TL;DR - Elastic APM
- Elastic APM is application performance monitoring integrated with the Elastic Stack
- It traces requests, identifies bottlenecks, and correlates errors with logs and metrics
- Free self-hosted with Elastic Stack, Cloud from $95/month
What is Elastic APM?
Available on: Web
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Part of Elastic Stack
- Good tracing
- Many agents
- Correlate with logs
- Self-hostable
Cons
- Resource intensive
- License concerns (SSPL)
- Complex setup
- Learning curve
- Can be expensive
Ratings Across the Web
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Key Features
Pricing Plans
14-day Free TrialFree
Free
Self-hosted
- APM
- Distributed tracing
- All features
Cloud Standard
$95/month
Starting
- Managed hosting
- Auto-scaling
- Support
How Elastic APM's pricing compares
At $95/mo, Elastic APM is the most premium of its 4 direct competitors.
Entry paid plan, monthly.
Reviews
Across 39 verified user reviews on Capterra, G2
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