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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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    Overview

    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.

    Germain is a small yet growing organization with a number of large customers (eBay, American Airlines, Nestle, Pepsi, Tele2, etc) leveraging Germain’s two software technologies: Germain APM(Application Performance Monitoring software, Real-time, 24x7, Big Data) and Germain CRT(Automated Code/Object Performance review software). Germain is 100% focused on building software technologies intended to help IT organizations proactively understand and improve the performance of their Business Applications (CRM, ERP, eCommerce, HR, Supply Chain, Business Intelligence) and underlying infrastructure. Germain APM helps Application Administrators proactively monitor Real User Experience, End-to-end Application Performance, Network, Database, Operating System performance and more. Germain CRT helps Application Developers detect bad Code/Objects that are known to cause performance issues. In 2006, Germain built a Performance Monitoring software for Siebel CRM; In 2014, Germain launched a brand new germain APM, end-to-end, real-time, big data and able to monitor performance of any Applications (custom apps built in java, .net and packaged applications like salesforce.com, WordPress site, oracle application and databases, Microsoft application and databases, etc). more info on: germainAPM.com
    Sample Customers
    Rackspace, First Gas, Allscripts, ABB Group
    American Airlines, eBay, Pepsi, Nestle, Tata Sky, Siemens, Allan Gray, Tele2, Tinkoff Bank, etc
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    Computer Software Company33%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Government10%
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise51%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Germain is ranked 64th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Germain is rated 9.0. 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 Germain writes "Provides an accurate view into the user experience for Siebel Open UI and Java". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Grafana, whereas Germain is most compared with .

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