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 initial setup is straightforward."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"The solution is quite stable."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"I would like more transparency when we use the solution with another environment, like on-premises, or on another cloud environment, like AWS or GCP."
"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."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"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 default interface should be improved."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"The product is old and not updated."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 31st 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, Prometheus, Sentry 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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