We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and BMC Compuware Strobe based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"The solution is quite stable."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"For me, the best feature is the log analysis with Azure Monitor's Log Analytics. Without being able to analyze the logs of all the activities that affect the performance of a machine, your monitoring effectiveness will be severely limited."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"The initial setup was fairly easy."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"n comparison to New Relic, which I've used before, it's a bit more complicated. It's not as easy to use. It also took some time to get it working. The implementation needs to be simpler."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"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."
"Enhancing and reaching a level of detail that facilitates pinpointing and addressing issues at such a refined level within the application and database components would be helpful."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"There are certain aspects of the configuration that could be simplified a bit."
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Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while BMC Compuware Strobe is ranked 62nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while BMC Compuware Strobe is rated 8.0. 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 BMC Compuware Strobe writes "Stable with a good database and a good interface". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Grafana, whereas BMC Compuware Strobe is most compared with IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS, IBM Application Performance Management and Mainframe Application Tuner.
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