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Microsoft Azure Monitor

Composite Score

8.9 /10

CX Score

9.1 /10

263 Reviews Write a Review

What is Microsoft Azure Monitor?

Collect, analyse and act on telemetry data from your Azure and on-premises environments. Azure Monitor helps you maximise performance and availability of your applications and proactively identify problems in seconds.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Azure Monitor won the following awards in the Application Performance Management - Enterprise category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

3 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

0 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2023

0 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

2022

Microsoft Azure Monitor Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

2
Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Monitor?

1% Negative

3% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Respectful
Helps Innovate
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Scalability

Application Discovery

Automated Diagnostics

Domain-Centric AI/ML

Non-Commodity Operating Systems

Server Monitoring

Transaction Request Performance

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)

Application Logging

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

Microsoft Azure Monitor Reviews

Maria A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2023

Awesome Azure Monitor

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

Easy to navigate and can also monitor non-azure resources by installing an agent.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

What I like best about Azure Monitor is that it collects and logs data from many sources, offers alerts, metrics, a dashboard, application insights, and integration with other Azure services.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Setting up your dashboard can be difficult at first.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

With Azure monitor, you get a monitoring and log management tool which are very useful since they are real-time so you can track application performance and visualize data and actions to be taken when an alert is fired.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Sowmya Sree G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Easy to use .Fantastic product!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

Ease of use

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Fast and reliable

What do you dislike most about this product?

Frequent patching

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Excellent product

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Rahul A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Banking
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Continues Monitoring

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

Custom monitoring for IaaS based workload, ease of integration with azure native offering

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Azure Alert and KQL for custom monitoring

What do you dislike most about this product?

Cost of storing logs

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you are azure shop the you must leverage azure native cloud monitoring which comes with lots of inbuild features. only ensure you do little planning on log storage.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Microsoft Azure Monitor Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

2 Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Monitor?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support Monitoring capabilities for cloud platforms such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Azure ServiceFabric.

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment Supports one or many deployment models - On-prem, cloud or hybrid hosting of the database system.

Scalability Scalability refers to the transaction size per second / time taken to put a transaction in the block and the time taken to reach a consensus.

Application Discovery Automated discovery of web servers, application servers, and micro-services, application frameworks, and platforms.

Automated Diagnostics Automated diagnostics providing prebuilt workflows for problem detection, correlation of application behavior and performance, and determination of cause.

Domain-Centric AI/ML Intelligent algorithms, based on machine learning (ML), analyze different data sets to find connections and relationships between services and infrastructure.

Non-Commodity Operating Systems Non-Commodity Operating Systems capabilities such as AIX, z/OS, Solaris, IBM i, and z/Linux.

Server Monitoring Monitor usage and performance of all application dependencies like databases, servers, containers, web services, caching, etc.

Transaction Request Performance Tracking the performance of all web and other transactions within your system.

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM) Synthetic front-end monitoring simulates user interactions with online applications, including fully scripted transactions.

Application Logging Capture and store transaction and application data for use in debugging and tracing.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Microsoft Azure Monitor Reviews

Maria A.

Awesome Azure Monitor

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sowmya Sree G.

Easy to use .Fantastic product!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Rahul A.

Continues Monitoring

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Scalability

Application Discovery

Automated Diagnostics

Domain-Centric AI/ML

Non-Commodity Operating Systems

Server Monitoring

Transaction Request Performance

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)

Application Logging

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Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support