Azure Monitor Valuable Features
The ease of access in Azure is significant since it's native to the platform and easy to integrate. It has no maintenance overhead, and users don't have to navigate to another portal to get their desired result. It's the handiness that it has, rather than the features.
The interpretation from the logs and injection requires custom runbooks. While it's complex, many services provide native insights and workbooks. It does the basic job quite efficiently.
They added new kinds of metrics with more integrations to send out metrics. They have even added support for third-party tools that can be integrated. Azure Monitor is working on improvements and becoming more mature.
Azure Monitor is stable and scalable.
Azure Monitor is evolving with new workbooks and dashboards.
View full review »I mostly need Azure Monitor internally since everything is working fine. However, there is sometimes a lack of resources. For instance, there can be a huge load on the server causing the CPU usage to go high, and the Azure application network may have issues. Occasionally, I need to scale up. Resource monitoring is essential.
Additionally, I can conclude reports for the monthly, weekly, and peak time of the resources since all the logs are collected in the Workspace. I can access them in the dashboard reports, all due to Azure Monitor.
View full review »Azure Monitor is easily configurable and allows visibility of the entire infrastructure. The solution can be easily configured and enabled to monitor the storage, database, and VMs.
Azure Monitor is comparatively more expensive than other tools, but it's more user-friendly, especially for administrators to configure and for our company clients to use. The solution identifies all the exceptions for the clients of our organization, then monitors the exceptions and also generates a report. The meantime to recover or resolve issues is minimal while using Azure Monitor.
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July 2025

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I find the query language in this tool very beneficial, as it allows me to customize some dashboards and create alerts according to my thresholds and metrics.
We can generate actions such as creating tickets in ServiceNow or sending email alerts. Another valuable feature of Azure Monitor is its integration with Azure Application Insights, which gives us a holistic view of our applications, encompassing the infrastructure and application layers.
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RakeshShukla
Assistant Director at Airvistara
The security and support are good. I am a part of the solution team and provide solutions related to monitoring, backup, security, and hosting for our clients.
View full review »What I like about Azure Monitor is that it performs well, is stable, and is easy to use.
We can see how much consumption is happening because it's linked to the payment. We want to know the data consumption for a period of time, and all this information is available there. It's used to monitor the data.
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Bharath Arakere
Devops consultant at Siemens Healthineers
The monitoring, performance, and availability of services are valuable features.
View full review »The features that are most valuable are the alerting function and the logging functionality to analyze certain issues using log analytics or queries. The solution also supports deployment towards a set of resources based on data collection rules.
View full review »The most valuable functions of Azure Monitor for our clients are its ability to monitor CPU usage and detect any potential issues before they escalate into actual problems. This helps in proactively addressing issues and preventing disruptions in our services. Additionally, Azure Monitor's integration with Azure for implementation has been quite straightforward and easy to manage.
View full review »The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use. We can do metric monitoring, log monitoring, and prepare queries to monitor something based on customers' requirements.
The Kusto query language is powerful and similar to SPL. We can do a lot of things with the language.
The solution is very easy to use and maintain.
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Nelson Mendaros
Founding Partner at 2Five1
One standout feature is its user-friendly dashboard. It simplifies the process of monitoring by providing a comprehensive overview of metrics, particularly in terms of resource utilization. The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system.
View full review »Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment.
View full review »I am monitoring all of my Azure Monitor and getting good reports. I can customize the reports to get the information I need. I am also getting emails about which AAS instances are down and everything in the system related to my services.
It is easy to use, scalable, and user-friendly. Microsoft has Many guides and videos to help you understand how to create and use Azure Monitor.
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Rajanikanth Prathapa
Associate Principal - Cloud Solutions at Apexon
Azure Monitor is a one-stop place to look at what's happening across all the resources. It provides a bird's eye view with histograms and gauges that we can build within IT.
The alerting feature is also very valuable.
Azure introduces new services almost every year. Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data.
View full review »The detailed logging is great. Detailed logging is the most impressive part. Also, we are observing our cost on the live environment. We know what kind of budget is required.
Also, we are getting all the problematic area details, so we can arrange ourselves according to the application development part.
The alert parts are great. It's crucial for our site, just getting the alerts on time.
It's easy to set up.
It is a robust, stable product.
The solution scales well.
View full review »It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is.
Automation is a key benefit of it as well. You can link one box to automatically resolve the issues off the back of another. There's quite a lot you can do with it.
View full review »The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource. You do not need to set up any virtual machines.
The visualization of logs, metrics, and the workbook is easy.
The solution supports services from past YAZ functions or containers.
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Jherzon Nava
IT Manager at Software Gurus
Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud. We can set up some alarms to better manage what we have in the cloud.
Azure Monitor has a direct connection with the infrastructure in the cloud. It's like a built-in feature in public services.
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VishalJain
Solution Architecture at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Among the valuable features of this solution, Application Insights stands out as one of the most significant. It provides insights into application performance and helps identify issues and bottlenecks.
Azure Monitor offers a notification feature that enables proactive monitoring and alerting. This feature proves particularly useful in ensuring timely responses to critical events and maintaining overall system health.
View full review »I don't know what specific features the customer gets from the tool. I know the standard monitoring is done on Azure Monitor. In our company, aside from being active with the setup, we also take care of the notification setup so that the help desk and right people are alerted in case there is an issue.
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Robert Van Vugt
Lead architect at Ziggo Services B.V.
Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor.
View full review »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.
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EdherIbañez
Subject Matter Expert at Vision Software
The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions.
We like the monitoring. We can look for the downtimes and look at the log to see whenever there is a crash and all the information around it.
It's very straightforward to set up.
The solution is stable.
You can scale the product.
The pricing is less than Dynatrace.
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Nouman Khan
Senior Solutions Specialist (Network & Security) at Ooredoo Qatar
Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting.
View full review »Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs.
View full review »The solution's most valuable features are its ease of use and support for multiple environments. With the tool, the customer can have a single dashboard for all the environments.
The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services.
View full review »The logs, analytics, alerts, and Azure Log Analytics workspace are valuable features in Azure Monitor.
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Zaheer-Khan
Vice President - Network Management at ADS Securities LLC
It has good troubleshooting features like automated troubleshooting. It is also a flexible solution and a low-cost product. It includes all the features that are required for multi-cloud and public cloud.
View full review »Currently, we use Power BI for our data visualization, and Azure Monitor is a very good fit with those cases. Another thing I like about the solution is that we can easily export the data, and the tool seamlessly works together with Datadog, though in terms of visualization in Azure Monitor, it's not as beautiful. It also doesn't have as many features as Power Bi, and this is why we were comparing it with Datadog.
We use Power BI because it has many features, so that's the main part we consider when selecting which tool to use. As for Datadog, people think of it as an application performance monitoring tool, rather than a data exporting tool, so they will still use Azure Monitor for exporting data. In some cases when the data analyst team needs some type of data, we can set that up for them on Azure Monitor, then consider using Datadog as a platform monitor.
The product is very good for developers who want to integrate with Visual Studio. The solution provides an overview and high-level information on what hurdles to expect, and which endpoints have problems.
View full review »The solution has tons of valuable features.
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AnupamPushkar
Cloud Architect at Cloud4C Services
It's easy to configure and easy to integrate with other products.
The initial setup is simple.
Technical support is helpful.
The solution is very stable.
It can scale.
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Rama Khandai
Senior Manager at Accenture
We use this solution for recording the logs and generating dashboards using Azure broad view insights. It is a great solution.
View full review »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.
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Soren
Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The feature that I found most valuable in Azure Monitor is its monitoring abilities. With Azure Monitor, you are able to monitor all of your cloud resources across multiple subscriptions in one dashboard and create solution-specific alerts that can trigger an email to the team responsible for that specific solution.
The ability to customize is endless. The majority of the data used for creating alerts does not require any agent installed, like so many other monitoring tools.
Azure Monitor is a monitoring solution that you should not miss out on the second you move workflows, solutions, infrastructure, and much more onto the cloud.
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William Scheuernstuhl
Senior System Administrator at BCBS of Kansas City
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.
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John Cheese Man
Server Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The only things for which our company might be using it are storage monitoring and performance monitoring. Nothing else.
In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple.
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Roger Tsegah Jnr.
System and Network Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I'm not working with it directly and therefore haven't noted any outstanding features.
View full review »One of the most useful aspects of this solution is the out-of-the-box functionality on all areas, especially on Application Insights, zero instrumentation, and artificial intelligence for event correlation.
View full review »The solution offers excellent security features.
The product provides us with useful alerts that makes recommendations about the security and the platform.
The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the survey of surveillance data in real time and the useful dashboard.
We like the performance display of the applications and the ability to identify problems as well as resources on which they depend.
Service Health is very helpful in identifying existing service problems and leading to a quick solution.
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ATHANASSIOS FAMELIARIS
S/W Technologies & Processes Unit Manager at Unisystems
There are a few good features in this solution. First, it's integrated with Azure DevOps. Second, it has good load gathering and very good analysis. Finally, the metrics gathering, even though it requires some actions and application level, is also fairly good.
View full review »The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up.
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VinothNanjappan
Senior Systems Administrator at Herbalife
The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds.
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TonyKerr
IT Consultant at productive it solutions
I find that the new dynamic alerting is a pretty good feature now. It bought the product up to date. Response times for alerts are much better than they were. Also running event searches within Azure Monitor. They're quite handy features and I find them all valuable.
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Paul-Fijma
Technical Engineer at Asperion
The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform.
View full review »I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution.
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Richard O
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth.
View full review »Azure Monitor has metrics and alerts capabilities. It allows you to set thresholds on the metrics and receive alerts. This is an important feature for monitoring.
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Azure Monitor
July 2025

Learn what your peers think about Azure Monitor. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2025.
861,524 professionals have used our research since 2012.