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."We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"You can scale the product."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"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's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"In terms of pricing, Azure Monitor's billing based on data size can sometimes lead to increased costs, especially when developers need to purge data frequently. While there are mechanisms in place to track and manage this, there is room for improvement in terms of optimizing data pausing and related processes. Enhancements in this area could help mitigate potential billing concerns and provide a more seamless experience for users."
"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."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"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, Chronosphere, New Relic and AWS X-Ray.
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