Azure Monitor Review: Is It The Right Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools For Your Team?
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What is Azure Monitor?
Azure Monitor gives you the power to track your applications, infrastructure, and network like never before. Get better insights into your system performance, proactively detect problems in the blink of an eye, and analyze all operational telemetry in a fully managed, automated, and efficient data store. Have constant, reliable control over your apps, virtual machines (VMs), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Storage, and databases, and, in addition, stay on top of any
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Suited for small teams, SMBs, and enterprise
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Web-based — no mobile app
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Azure Monitor was reviewed internally using user feedback, in-house testing, and market research to assess its performance, reliability, and user experience. Learn how we review products and our evaluation process.
Who should consider Azure Monitor
- Team types
- Large Enterprises, Medium Business
Why teams choose Azure Monitor
Reviewers praise the real-time, centralized monitoring of Azure resources, metrics, and logs.
Log Analytics and its query language are highlighted for powerful troubleshooting and analysis.
Application Insights is repeatedly valued for detecting and diagnosing issues across apps.
Is Azure Monitor right for you?
Azure Monitor pros and cons
- Azure Monitor pros
Reviewers praise the real-time, centralized monitoring of Azure resources, metrics, and logs.
Log Analytics and its query language are highlighted for powerful troubleshooting and analysis.
Application Insights is repeatedly valued for detecting and diagnosing issues across apps.
- Azure Monitor cons
Several reviewers say initial dashboard and alert setup can be tricky and time-consuming.
Some find the advanced features have a steep learning curve and use technical language.
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Azure Monitor reviews and ratings
Buyer sentiment
Buyer sentiment is positive across 97 reviews, with strong overall satisfaction.
What buyers like
- Reviewers praise the real-time, centralized monitoring of Azure resources, metrics, and logs.
- Log Analytics and its query language are highlighted for powerful troubleshooting and analysis.
- Application Insights is repeatedly valued for detecting and diagnosing issues across apps.
Common complaints
- Several reviewers say initial dashboard and alert setup can be tricky and time-consuming.
- Some find the advanced features have a steep learning curve and use technical language.
- Reviewers note it's limited to Azure resources and has data-retention constraints.
Are you using Azure Monitor?
What users are saying
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Elie S
06/18/24
"Azure Logs Analytics Review"
What do you like best about Azure Monitor? I am still in the testing phase of the Log Analytics, although i like most the possibility to connect with ...
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Ludvi A
11/23/23
"maximize the performance and availability of my resources and identify problem"
What do you like best about Azure Monitor? Giving me realtime monitoring of analysis What do you dislike about Azure Monitor? Business applications ...
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Anonymous User
10/12/23
"Monitoring to one place @azure monitor"
What do you like best about Azure Monitor? If you want your cloud and all on premises data in one place please go through Azure monitoring 101 percent ...
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Anonymous User
10/12/23
"Monitoring to one place @azure monitor"
What do you like best about Azure Monitor? If you want your cloud and all on premises data in one place please go through Azure monitoring 101 percent ...
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Rakesh R
07/13/23
"Incredibile Praepostor"
What do you like best about Azure Monitor? This the best tool that I ever used for the Instance watch. It has impactable features like cloud watch, ...
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Andres T
07/05/23
"Effective tracking without mangling with the tool"
What do you like best about Azure Monitor? Infra monitoring and log management features are very useful as they are real-time so we track application ...
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What are the features of Azure Monitor?
Analytics is a math-based field that aims to uncover patterns in marketing data to gain actionable knowledge that can be used in your market…
Application Performance Metrics is a feature that provides valuable insights into the performance of an application. This feature collects a…
Machine learning is a powerful technology that allows computers to learn and improve from data without being explicitly programmed. This inn…
Monitoring is a crucial feature of software applications that allows users to track and analyze the performance of their systems and applica…
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Frequently Asked Questions About Azure Monitor
Common questions buyers ask before choosing Azure Monitor.
Azure Monitor is a Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools. Azure Monitor offers Monitoring, Analytics, Application Performance Metrics and many more functionalities.
Buyers commonly note the following limitations of Azure Monitor: Several reviewers say initial dashboard and alert setup can be tricky and time-consuming.; Some find the advanced features have a steep learning curve and use technical language.; Reviewers note it's limited to Azure resources and has data-retention constraints..
Some top alternatives to Azure Monitor includes Azure Service Health, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog APM and Azure Stream Analytics.
Azure Monitor offers Free Trial, Subscription pricing models
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About the reviewer
Rajat Gupta is the founder of Spotsaas. Over the past two years, he has reviewed 2,000+ tools across CRM, HR, AI, and finance — applying hands-on product research and a background in commerce and the CFA program to evaluate software through a business and ROI lens. His goal: help teams make software decisions they won't regret.
Disclaimer: This research has been collated from a variety of authoritative sources. We welcome your feedback at [email protected].
