We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and WhatsUp Gold 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 offers more advanced features including log analysis, reporting, and graphs and charts. It also integrates better with Microsoft technologies and cloud resources across multiple subscriptions. While WhatsUp Gold is stable and easy to set up, it lacks the advanced features of Azure Monitor. Azure Monitor's pricing model is also more flexible and customizable, making it a more cost-effective solution.
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"The feature that I found most valuable in Azure Monitor is its monitoring abilities. With Azure Monitor, you are able to monitor all of your cloud resources across multiple subscriptions in one dashboard and create solution-specific alerts that can trigger an email to the team responsible for that specific solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The user interface is good enough."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"Integration with third-party tools from other vendors than Azure is more time-consuming"
"This solution has fewer features than some of its competitors, so adding more features to it would make it better."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"The product is old and not updated."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while WhatsUp Gold 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Grafana, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and LogicMonitor. See our Azure Monitor vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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