We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and SolarWinds AppOptics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"Azure Monitor is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"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."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"The default interface should be improved."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"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."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds AppOptics is rated 7.8. 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 SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Grafana, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, New Relic and Datadog. See our Azure Monitor vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.
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