We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and SolarWinds Pingdom 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."Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"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."
"You can scale the product."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"As a younger product it still has room for feature improvement and enhancement."
"The default interface should be improved."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"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."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 49th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds Pingdom 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 Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Honeycomb.io, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Grafana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our Azure Monitor vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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