We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Instana Dynamic APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on user feedback, Azure Monitor is the preferred choice when compared to Instana Dynamic APM. Users appreciate the wide range of valuable features offered by Azure Monitor, including integration with Visual Studio, Power BI, and other Microsoft technologies. They also find Azure Monitor to have robust monitoring abilities, easy data export, and out-of-the-box functionality.
"You can scale the product."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"The most valuable features of Azure Monitor are the login analytics workspace and we can write any kind of custom queries in order to receive the data that is inserted into the login analytics workspace, diagnostic settings, et cetera."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"It is a stable solution."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"This solution has fewer features than some of its competitors, so adding more features to it would make it better."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"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."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"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 configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"Many managers, as well as our customers, used to ask for reports, such as "top X number of queries that are slow," or "top pages that have the highest number of issues." This is something that can be improved by Instana. Currently, they don't have that kind of reporting available out-of-the-box."
"We should be able to go back to scenarios during or before the issue. There should be something like a history playback. Such a feature or functionality would be good."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 reviews while Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 23rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4. 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 Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry and Prometheus, whereas Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, IBM Application Performance Management and Prometheus. See our Azure Monitor vs. Instana Dynamic APM report.
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