We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Scout APM 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 most valuable features of Azure Monitor are the login analytics workspace and we can write any kind of custom queries in order to receive the data that is inserted into the login analytics workspace, diagnostic settings, et cetera."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"Azure Monitor is very stable."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"The product can scale."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"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."
"I would like more transparency when we use the solution with another environment, like on-premises, or on another cloud environment, like AWS or GCP."
"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."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 30th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Scout APM is rated 10.0. 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 Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Grafana, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and New Relic.
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