We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor offers more advanced features including log analysis, reporting, and graphs and charts. It also integrates better with Microsoft technologies and cloud resources across multiple subscriptions. While WhatsUp Gold is stable and easy to set up, it lacks the advanced features of Azure Monitor. Azure Monitor's pricing model is also more flexible and customizable, making it a more cost-effective solution.
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"I am monitoring all of my Azure Monitor and getting good reports. I can customize the reports to get the information I need. I am also getting emails about which AAS instances are down and everything in the system related to my services. It is easy to use, scalable, and user-friendly. Microsoft has Many guides and videos to help you understand how to create and use Azure Monitor."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"Azure Monitor is very stable."
"You can scale the product."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"It is stable."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"The default interface should be improved."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"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."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 36th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while WhatsUp Gold 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Grafana, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, Grafana, PRTG Network Monitor and Prometheus. See our Azure Monitor vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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