We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and SolarWinds Pingdom 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 most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace. It's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure. It is fairly good at that."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"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."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"You can scale the product."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"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."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 49th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds Pingdom 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 Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Honeycomb.io, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Grafana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our Azure Monitor vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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