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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

hector m.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Hosted vms on azure

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

When considering having a physical server with a cloud server of azure, azure cloud is far more cheaper and easily available anywhere.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I love the storage capacity it can offer to my data and my application making it accessible without hanging. Security of azure is enhanced with sophisticated logins. Great interface to work with every cloud app on azure cloud.

What do you dislike most about this product?

This tool works marvelously for me not to note any defects of it

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Using azure will make you productive in cloud and am asking everyone to make a bold decision of having azure in their work environment.

Pros

Reliable
Effective Service
Fair
Friendly Negotiation

Hilary B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Media
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Robust APM together with Azure Security

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

Azure Monitor It is an effective instrument to monitor Azure cloud configurations. It has many features to monitor aspects such as health, performance and security. It enables advanced automation and analytics and works seamlessly with other Azure services such as Azure Application Insights.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Together with Azure Monitor we can monitor the health, behavior and performance of applications and the IT environment to ensure reliable, secure and optimal operations.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The learning curve and complexity of the Azure ecosystem can be substantial for those new to it. There will be an adjustment period and expense management considerations for configurations and adjustment solutions.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Monitoring the performance, health, and security of Azure infrastructure, applications, and resources is simplified with this comprehensive, centralized monitoring solution.

Pros

Efficient Service
Inspires Innovation
Appreciates Incumbent Status
Security Protects

Eric M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Media
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Azure has made it easier to monitor processes

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

Azure has helped us understand the health and efficiency of networks and applications. Intelligent alerts, powerful analytics and real-time performance monitoring are some of its features that have helped us the most.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like that metrics and logs are provided to monitor resource performance and identify problems. We know how our Azure resources, applications, and other components are performing in real time and what state they are in.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Azure Monitor has the potential to generate an overwhelming number of notifications if not configured with caution. The amount of accessible historical data may be limited by data retention policies. Support for many clouds is limited.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I really like Azure Monitor. Processes and transactions connected to the ADF can now be easily monitored.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service
Friendly Negotiation

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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

hector m.

Hosted vms on azure

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Hilary B.

Robust APM together with Azure Security

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Eric M.

Azure has made it easier to monitor processes

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

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Application Discovery

Automated Diagnostics

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Server Monitoring

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