We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and PRTG Network Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Zabbix, New Relic and others in Cloud Monitoring Software."It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"Azure Monitor is very stable."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"Among the valuable features of this solution, Application Insights stands out as one of the most significant. It provides insights into application performance and helps identify issues and bottlenecks."
"It is user-friendly. It is easy to set up health checks within PRTG and use scans. It is like a self-service tool, and anyone can configure their own settings within PRTG."
"We use the remote probes a lot for our branch offices. Instead of deploying the full instance of PRTG, we'll put a remote probe out there. This simplifies the whole deployment for us."
"It is able to satisfy all our requirements in terms of email notifications and specific errors on the devices."
"Ease of set-up – it is quick and easy to add a probe and start collecting data from a device."
"There is a simplicity to setting up the extra sensors. It's really easy for us to build infrastructure and start monitoring very quickly."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to span multiple technologies and multiple vendors."
"Ability to create a dashboard inside software monitoring."
"It is easy to use and intuitive, which is really important. It does what it says on the box by giving you a visual of the state of what is going on at any one time."
"As a younger product it still has room for feature improvement and enhancement."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"In terms of pricing, Azure Monitor's billing based on data size can sometimes lead to increased costs, especially when developers need to purge data frequently. While there are mechanisms in place to track and manage this, there is room for improvement in terms of optimizing data pausing and related processes. Enhancements in this area could help mitigate potential billing concerns and provide a more seamless experience for users."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"The free version only gives us 100 free sensors to use. It would be nice if there was double that."
"More training videos for installing and configuring this software would have been nice, especially when working with a lot of devices."
"There seems to be a big jump from the basic scan to the really thorough scan. There is a big jump in the quantity of sensors it uses for certain things. One minute you might get ten and then the next you get 200. There seems to be a big jump between the two at times."
"I wouldn't mind better categories for the sensors. When I go to add a new sensor for a new device, there are some categories in there already, and they can be filtered out, but there's quite a large pool of sensors... When I want to go in and find something quite specific, I have got to scroll down and scroll down to find what I'm actually looking for,"
"This product can be improved by updating the net flow interface. The one that is in place works – I can get all the information I need from it – but it is a little bit clunky."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve the reports. In the reports, you have to give an alert for that SMS and email, the emergency calls and downtimes have to be reported accordingly. You have to enable email services or an SMS gateway service to receive more alerts at the proper time."
"I would like to see them take their graphing tools and convert them into a collector so that we can point telemetry to them"
"PRTG Network Monitor could improve the price."
Azure Monitor is ranked 5th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 44 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 7th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2. 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 PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Grafana, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and ManageEngine OpManager.
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Hi to all. On my view, the PRTG would be the better decisionт as external independent solution. In addition, based on my own experience, PRTG is a more flexible tool that can be quickly configured for any task
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