We performed a comparison between Azure Cost Management and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Microsoft, VMware and others in Cloud Cost Management."My organization benefits from the tool's performance and time-saving features."
"The most valuable feature is that our customers can see their consumption in real time. Even though we have a couple of analytics provided by our company, those are not in real time."
"Billing management is self-explanatory. There isn't a specific feature that stands out, but it's a fundamental aspect that needs to be present."
"The tool helps with budgeting and reporting. It notifies us whenever we cross the threshold."
"We use the solution as a cost management tool to control the budget. It is easy to mange costs with the product."
"The resource forecasting feature is invaluable. Secondly, the ability to drill down to the regional and resource level is incredibly helpful for pinpointing where my costs are accruing."
"Gives visibility into the cost of cloud-based solutions."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it's extremely customizable. It makes it very flexible in terms of usage."
"Provides a good level of tools and covers essential components."
"The people in technical support are very good."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"The product is lightweight in terms of memory use, requiring only 10 megabytes or less."
"It did a good job of the collection and then an investigation of the net flow of information for understanding the applications that were being used at certain locations."
"I can do everything remotely, including running PowerShell scripts or performing standard updates."
"I like SolarWinds support because it's 24/7. You describe your issues, your situation and maybe two or three hours later you can discuss a solution with a technical engineer."
"The most valuable feature is the way it monitors the environment, and how user-friendly the console is for the end-user. The interface is also very easy and it captures all the information very well."
"Cost Management could always provide more details. The more information, the better. They just need to build on what they have now."
"What would make Azure Cost Management better is a more flexible GUI that would allow users to provide more input. Another area for improvement in the solution is its reporting. The report it provides should be easy to understand."
"It would be beneficial if Azure Cost Management could automatically generate budget rules using AI insights, eliminating the need for manual configuration."
"The response time of customer support can be improved."
"Improved integration with other solutions could definitely be beneficial."
"We would like to see more flexibility added to this solution, such as being able to compare reservations, or compare costs across multiple financial years and report on the reasons for deviation in spend."
"The forecasting model can improve Azure Cost Management."
"Optimization and scalability could be increased."
"In terms of scalability, there is room for improvement. When you start monitoring, if you have so many interfaces and you're trying to monitor them at a faster interval, or a shorter interval, you get to a point where you need to request another node."
"The integration with the APIs and the web servers deployed can definitely be improved."
"Currently lacks integration with SMS services."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve by adding the deepest inspection, performance networking, and IP address discovery."
"SolarWinds NPM needs to increase its elements. One polling engine can only support 10,000 elements then it becomes slow. There are limitations even if you have the full SLX version license."
"This solution would benefit from expanding on the capabilities within the API."
"This product could improve by adding cloud monitoring. I want SolarWinds NPM to do much more integration, and have more involvement in cloud monitoring, like AWS or Google, or Azure. I feel like it requires lots of improvement for cloud monitoring in NPM."
"They have had a rather large security breach in the past. It's cost some companies customers."
Azure Cost Management is ranked 2nd in Cloud Cost Management with 41 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Azure Cost Management is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Cost Management writes "A good, but limited cost information solution with strong analytics but requiring more flexibility in its reporting functionality". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Azure Cost Management is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, AWS Savings Plans, Cloudability and Zabbix, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor.
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