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."It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"You can scale the product."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace. It's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure. It is fairly good at that."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"Integration with third-party tools from other vendors than Azure is more time-consuming"
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"The default interface should be improved."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"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."
"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 implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
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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