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We performed a comparison between Avada Software Infrared360 and Azure Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"It allows non-technical users to inspect their individual components within the total infrastructure without disturbing other components and without bothering the technical teams.""Monitoring that ties into our incident management system""We have easily created use case testing harnesses for specific flows that incorporate various message types.""It has role-based access to queues, giving us more insights into problems.""The administration piece makes it very easy to do MQ administration. It gives us a lot more flexibility and capabilities.""It's what we use for monitoring our MQ system, so the features that they provide are just really, really good."

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"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution.""The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services.""The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier.""It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale.""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 initial setup is straightforward.""It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is.""It has good troubleshooting features."

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"One area where they could improve is with their documentation. Some sections are not up to date with new release information and providing additional samples in some areas would be very helpful.""Some of the graphics in the interface could be improved. It's pretty basic. Some interfaces are not up to what you're used to seeing on other, more Windows-like tools.""The UI can be cumbersome - but we are still using the Viper interface and we have not had the time to check out the Alloy interface which is supposed to be much improved.""We desire a dashboard that could accumulate BOQ lengths per tenant on one screen for all tenants.""The user interface could be sexier and more ergonomic. The competing products have similar problems.""We are still working with the FTE/MFT subscription monitoring and reporting functionality. That is an area in which we would like to see further development taking place."

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"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.""Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced.""The process of implementation needs to be easier.""They need to work on a more hybrid deployment that will allow us to monitor local on-premise deployments and connect to different systems. I would like to see more integration.""They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool.""There is room for improvement in stability.""I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now.""The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Because the licensing is at the QMGR level, you need to have at least a small cushion of licenses for occasional enterprise needs."
  • "Our internal budget calculation model incorporates the pricing per endpoint for any new projects. However, as our footprint for distributed queue managers shrinks as part of our shared middleware hub deployment, the initial licensing and support costs have been reduced over the last five years."
  • "Avada Software's licensing metric is very good because the license fees are based on the number of connections (which have not increased for us very much over the years) rather than the CPU processing power (which increases significantly whenever our hardware is upgraded) or the number of users (which has increased for us a lot since our original purchase)."
  • "Start small, then increase licensing later as per your demand."
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  • "Azure Monitor is a low-priced solution, which is why it would work best on small-scale projects."
  • "The price of the solution is reasonable."
  • "Azure Monitor is a competitively priced solution."
  • "Azure Monitor is one of the more cost effective solutions on the market."
  • "The cost of Azure Monitor application performance should be less expensive."
  • "The licensing is a monthly fee."
  • "I would rate Azure Monitor a two out of five for affordability."
  • "The solution is very costly because you have to pay for various things such as adding to logs and internet alerts."
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    Infrared360
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    Overview

    Avada Software specializes in Enterprise Middleware solutions. Founded by some pioneers in SOA, MQ and J2EE technology, Avada’s Flagship product, Infrared360, is a holistic & innovative private cloud enabled portal providing self-service administration, monitoring, load testing, auditing & statistical reporting for Enterprise Middleware including IBM’s middleware stack of MQ, IIB (message broker), WAS, and Datapower, as well as other applications servers such as  JBoss, TC Server, Weblogic, and other messaging technologies such as Tibco EMS and Kafka*.

    Accessed via any web browser on any device, Infrared360 is a single web application, yet scales to 2500+ endpoints without deploying anything (no agents, no scripts) to those endpoints.

    Using trusted ‘spaces’ and delegated visibility and control, the portal uniquely provides different business units or even different application users virtual ‘spaces’ in which to work.  Within those spaces are only the objects and resources the user has been granted visibility.  Role policy dictates permissions on those resources.

    It is the ONLY Enterprise Messaging Solution with a built in SOA engine that lets you leverage internal and external services for managing and correcting problems within your middleware messaging environment.                 

      *Kafka coming soon 

    Azure Monitor is a comprehensive monitoring solution offered by Microsoft Azure. It provides a centralized platform for monitoring the performance and health of various Azure resources, applications, and infrastructure. 

    With Azure Monitor, users can gain insights into the availability, performance, and usage of their applications and infrastructure. The key features of Azure Monitor include metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards. Metrics allow users to collect and analyze performance data from various Azure resources, such as virtual machines, databases, and storage accounts. 

    Logs enable users to collect and analyze log data from different sources, including Azure resources, applications, and operating systems. Azure Monitor also provides a robust alerting mechanism that allows users to set up alerts based on specific conditions or thresholds. These alerts can be configured to notify users via email, SMS, or other notification channels. Additionally, Azure Monitor offers customizable dashboards that allow users to visualize and analyze their monitoring data in a personalized and intuitive manner.  

    Azure Monitor integrates seamlessly with other Azure services, such as Azure Automation and Azure Logic Apps, enabling users to automate actions based on monitoring data. It also supports integration with third-party monitoring tools and services, providing flexibility and extensibility. 

    Overall, Azure Monitor is a powerful and versatile monitoring solution that helps users gain deep insights into the performance and health of their Azure resources and applications. It offers a wide range of features and integrations, making it a comprehensive solution for monitoring and managing Azure environments.

    Sample Customers
    USBank, Southwest Airlines, Visiting Nurse Services of New York, Aon Hewitt, Parker Hannifin,  Cantonal Bank of Zurich (ZKB), Hagemeyer NA, and many others
    Rackspace, First Gas, Allscripts, ABB Group
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm73%
    Government27%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm31%
    Insurance Company11%
    Transportation Company8%
    Computer Software Company6%
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    Computer Software Company33%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Government10%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise36%
    Large Enterprise36%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise80%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise51%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
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    Avada Software Infrared360 is ranked 68th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews. Avada Software Infrared360 is rated 8.8, while Azure Monitor is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Avada Software Infrared360 writes "An offsite team performs a daily infrastructure health check and sends reports to the technical/management teams. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". Avada Software Infrared360 is most compared with IBM MQ and Dynatrace, whereas Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Grafana.

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