We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor provides users with greater flexibility, customization options, and better troubleshooting features. The product integrates well with other Microsoft technologies and offers good log analysis, graphs, and charts, as well as reporting. While SolarWinds does have valuable monitoring capabilities, it needs improvement in terms of stability, flexibility, ease of use, performance, integration, and pricing. Azure Monitor has received more positive feedback on customer service and support, initial setup, and pricing, making it the preferred solution.
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"Among the valuable features of this solution, Application Insights stands out as one of the most significant. It provides insights into application performance and helps identify issues and bottlenecks."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"The product integrates with Remedy."
"The more valuable feature of this solution is the Exchange feature."
"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."
"SolarWinds SAM has provided us with dynamic thresholds based on historical trends and requirements. The threshold gets configured automatically, so it's no longer necessary to configure it manually every time."
"One of the most valuable features are the reports. They're pretty good. Also, the ease of installation and customization for the client is another feature that we value. SolarWinds has a lot of features but these are the ones I like the most. We also like that the KPIs have the ability to be preset."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"The default interface should be improved."
"They can simplify the overall complexity since you have multiple data sources in the cloud for monitoring. It's quite simple, but there are so many portals. It takes time to work with it. If they could simplify the user configuration, that would be good."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"They need to work on a more hybrid deployment that will allow us to monitor local on-premise deployments and connect to different systems. I would like to see more integration."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."
"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."
"Support for the IBM Mainframe is needed."
"One area that could benefit from improvement is its performance"
"The current script monitoring feature has limitations, especially when dealing with custom scripts."
"Currently SolarWinds SAM offers AppInsight for modern versions of: IIS, Exchange, SQL Server. They have shown to be powerful and insightful tools. However, AppInsight needs to be offered for more applications: Citrix, SharePoint, AX, etc."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."
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Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. 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 Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and AppDynamics, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Nagios XI and ServiceNow Discovery. See our Azure Monitor vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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