We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and SolarWinds AppOptics 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."I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"You can scale the product."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"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."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"Integration with third-party tools from other vendors than Azure is more time-consuming"
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"As a younger product it still has room for feature improvement and enhancement."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 reviews while SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 43rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds AppOptics 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 AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Grafana, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, Datadog and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Azure Monitor vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.
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