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 most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"The solution is quite stable."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"The user interface is good enough."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"The documentation is very good."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"The query builder could be better. In comparison to other monitoring tools, in order to use Azure Monitor, your engineers need to have KQL experience. If they don't, it's not intuitive as a system."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"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."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"The interface needs some work."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"The product is old and not updated."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"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."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 31st 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, Sentry, Prometheus and Grafana, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and LogicMonitor. See our Azure Monitor vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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