We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Instana Dynamic APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on user feedback, Azure Monitor is the preferred choice when compared to Instana Dynamic APM. Users appreciate the wide range of valuable features offered by Azure Monitor, including integration with Visual Studio, Power BI, and other Microsoft technologies. They also find Azure Monitor to have robust monitoring abilities, easy data export, and out-of-the-box functionality.
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace. It's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure. It is fairly good at that."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"One of the most useful aspects of this solution is the out-of-the-box functionality on all areas, especially on Application Insights, zero instrumentation, and artificial intelligence for event correlation."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"With auto-discovery, we didn't need to consider much. We just installed the agent on the host and it was able to detect everything from the host level up to the service level, for whatever stack was installed, and that includes containers and dockers."
"It is a stable solution."
"Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself."
"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"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."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"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."
"The default interface should be improved."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality"
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"We should be able to go back to scenarios during or before the issue. There should be something like a history playback. Such a feature or functionality would be good."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 20th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4. 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 Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus and Sentry, whereas Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, IBM Application Performance Management and Prometheus. See our Azure Monitor vs. Instana Dynamic APM report.
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