We performed a comparison between Accedian Skylight and Azure Monitor 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."If [the problem] is something related to HTTP or VoIP, then I can have a quick look into the protocols, a process which gives me some good ideas..."
"I always have the Skylight dashboard on one of my screens... Now you can create your own dashboard, specific to an application, specific to a server, or to something else."
"This solution has helped to improve the interaction between our network, datacenter, and application teams. I have used other tools, but this tool can pinpoint the root cause of my application or network issue in the majority of the cases. So, it helps different divisions or groups in the IT department to troubleshoot together and get an issue resolved. This tool helps a lot in our day-to-day networking application and IT operations."
"What I like most about Accedian Skylight is that it's a UI application, so using it is easy. I also like that the support for Accedian Skylight is helpful."
"The feature I used to like the most was its ability to decode layer seven protocols, although this is becoming less useful now that encryption is so widespread."
"The performance of Accedian Skylight is better than other vendors."
"The ability to measure performance end-to-end across the cloud data center allows us to take corrective action to keep our channels online."
"Capturing traffic [is very interesting]. Currently, with our configuration, we don't capture the payload of the packets, just the header. But when we want the body, the payload of the packets, we can do a PCAP, and then analyze it within Wireshark."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"Technical support is helpful."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"For the PVX, they are in the process of getting the results to export to cloud and SaaS for analytics. They told me that this will happen later this year. Right now, for the most part, I create that data myself."
"This solution is expensive compared to some others."
"Because of the policies in Vietnam, we cannot connect the system to the Accedian cloud. It would be good if Accedian could provide a local cloud. In the next release, I would like them to focus on improving and adding more reporting features. This will help the operations teams."
"If you want a new version, you go to the website. The hardest part is finding the link, where is that .bin file? Sometimes it's pretty hidden in a document... it's hidden in the release notes or in another file somewhere. And it's usually not on the first page either."
"I would like to see some improvements in parts of their synthetic transactions, which includes all the latency, jitter, and throughput. I would like to see some Layer 7 analytics in there. I want to be able to do a DNS request, HTTP GET request, or even SIP call point-to-point or via registration."
"It needs the possibility to export data because it is not easy to see larger data sets, e.g., for one month. It would be interesting to export data into a PDF or dashboard to keep a history of the situation."
"It's a bit slow. When I execute a query, something general with a short timeframe that covers one month, for instance, and I do not specify the IP source or IP destination, it can take ages because it has to query the whole database."
"The Accedian Skylight user interface still has room for improvement."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"The query builder could be better. In comparison to other monitoring tools, in order to use Azure Monitor, your engineers need to have KQL experience. If they don't, it's not intuitive as a system."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"Enhancing and reaching a level of detail that facilitates pinpointing and addressing issues at such a refined level within the application and database components would be helpful."
"Integration with third-party tools from other vendors than Azure is more time-consuming"
Accedian Skylight is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 23 reviews while Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 reviews. Accedian Skylight is rated 9.0, while Azure Monitor is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Accedian Skylight writes "Highly scalable, responsive support, but lacking new features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". Accedian Skylight is most compared with ThousandEyes, SolarWinds NPM, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, Dynatrace and Zabbix, whereas Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Grafana. See our Accedian Skylight vs. Azure Monitor report.
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