We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Honeycomb.io based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."It is a robust, stable product."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"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."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"I am monitoring all of my Azure Monitor and getting good reports. I can customize the reports to get the information I need. I am also getting emails about which AAS instances are down and everything in the system related to my services. It is easy to use, scalable, and user-friendly. Microsoft has Many guides and videos to help you understand how to create and use Azure Monitor."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"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."
"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."
"Although it's not always the case, the price can sometimes get expensive. This depends on a number of factors, such as how many services you are trying to integrate with Azure Monitor and how much storage they're consuming each month (for example, how large are the log files?)."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 reviews while Honeycomb.io is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Honeycomb.io 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 Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Instana Dynamic APM, whereas Honeycomb.io is most compared with Grafana, Sentry, Datadog, Chronosphere and AWS X-Ray.
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