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 solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"One of the most useful aspects of this solution is the out-of-the-box functionality on all areas, especially on Application Insights, zero instrumentation, and artificial intelligence for event correlation."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"SSL Certificate Monitoring and Expiry Alerting"
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is its powerful monitoring capabilities."
"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."
"This product can monitor application environments no matter where they reside and provides capabilities for deep insight into infrastructure."
"The more valuable feature of this solution is the Exchange feature."
"The features like trends, capacity planning, recommendations, and diagnostics are the main items I focus on for added value."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"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 scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"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 solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"Nodes in Azure are able to be monitored with the use of agents, but this does not apply to cloud service offerings that are not node based."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
"The tool’s report feature created issues for us. We needed to gain skills to use that feature. The tool’s customization is not easy since you have to reconfigure the whole system."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."
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Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 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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