We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and SolarWinds AppOptics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"There are a lot of things that take more time to do, such as charting, alerting, and correlation of data, and things like that. Azure Monitor doesn't tell you why something happened. It just tells you that it happened. It should also have some type of AI. Environments and applications are becoming more and more complex every day with hundreds or thousands of microservices. Therefore, having to do a lot of the stuff manually takes a lot of time, and on top of that, troubleshooting issues takes a lot of time. The traditional method of troubleshooting doesn't really work for or apply to this environment we're in. So, having an AI-based system and the ability to automate deployments of your monitoring and configurations makes it much easier."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 reviews while SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 43rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds AppOptics is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Grafana, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, Datadog and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Azure Monitor vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.
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