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."Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"For me, the best feature is the log analysis with Azure Monitor's Log Analytics. Without being able to analyze the logs of all the activities that affect the performance of a machine, your monitoring effectiveness will be severely limited."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"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."
"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."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"Enhancing and reaching a level of detail that facilitates pinpointing and addressing issues at such a refined level within the application and database components would be helpful."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 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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