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Actional vs Azure Monitor comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Actional
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
72nd
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
SOA Governance (4th)
Azure Monitor
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
12th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Monitoring Software (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Actional is 0.5%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Azure Monitor is 2.2%, down from 6.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Monitor2.2%
Actional0.5%
Other97.3%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

it_user690762 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Provides speed and scaling in the cloud
Provides speed and scaling in the cloud Effortless scaling Never throws away data Takes action now Delivers analytics at the speed of business Automates and speeds up system discovery I would like to see better marketing. We have used this for four years. There are no deployment issues at this…
Andy Rabern - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
Telemetry insights have improved how I track user behavior and application performance daily
I feel Azure Monitor does a fair job. I do feel it is not a streaming service in my opinion. There are advantages to having stream messaging and logging on that level. But for what it is, I feel it does well. My perspective is more based on an Application Insights agent running on a service or an app service and sending the telemetry via the agent, and also doing the filtering of telemetry at the agent level so you are not having a ton of telemetry. I believe Azure Monitor does pretty much the same thing. I have also used tools such as New Relic, and New Relic is a much more robust tool, but that is a different product and you are going to pay for that. It is a different offering altogether. The subscription that we had at the time allowed for a couple gigabytes of telemetry during the month, and I believe that telemetry only lives for about two months. You have to experiment with it to see how much you want to pay. I was not really involved in the pricing. It was more along the lines of we were running up against our limits in terms of the amount of free telemetry or telemetry that we get with our subscription, and so we either needed to scale back or turn specific telemetry types off or do some more sampling. It is nice that those capabilities are there so that you can reduce the amount of telemetry. I cannot really speak to pricing but I do believe that it is somewhat reasonable for Azure Monitor. New Relic is pretty expensive, I believe.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"From a testing standpoint, ignoring license and cost issues, it's not a bad product."
"This tool has great scaling capabilities, i.e., no limitations."
"Azure Monitor has helped our organization to have insights into issues and informs us before an issue becomes a very critical stage."
"What I like about Azure Monitor is that it performs well."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"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."
"We get good results from Microsoft Azure, so that's why we stick with Microsoft Azure."
"I can conclude reports for the monthly, weekly, and peak time of the resources."
"The security and support are good."
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
 

Cons

"My concern is with Automation integration."
"Integration with third-party tools from other vendors than Azure is more time-consuming"
"The onboarding process of certain assets and the overall UI can be improved in Azure Monitor"
"The pricing model could be more flexible."
"As a younger product it still has room for feature improvement and enhancement."
"In my opinion, Azure Monitor is not the best solution available on the market."
"The technical support could be improved - their response time can be quite slow."
"They can simplify the overall complexity since you have multiple data sources in the cloud for monitoring. It's quite simple, but there are so many portals. It takes time to work with it. If they could simplify the user configuration, that would be good."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is a pay-as-you-go consumption service and is the least expensive in the market."
"The tool is expensive."
"My company is okay with the current pricing of the solution."
"The cost of Azure Monitor application performance should be less expensive."
"Azure Monitor's price is minimal to the point of being almost negligible."
"Azure Monitor is cheaper compared to other third-party monitoring tools."
"The product offers a pay-as-you-go model to users. The charges are to be paid according to the usage of the product."
"Azure Monitor is a competitively priced solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise29
 

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What needs improvement with Azure Monitor?
I feel Azure Monitor does a fair job. I do feel it is not a streaming service in my opinion. There are advantages to having stream messaging and logging on that level. But for what it is, I feel it...
What is your primary use case for Azure Monitor?
I am a developer who uses Azure Monitor for telemetry of the applications that I work on. Application Insights is one of those tools, and I have also used other non-Azure products before. Currently...
 

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