We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and BMC Compuware Strobe based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The solution has tons of valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"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."
"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."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"The initial setup was fairly easy."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"They need to work on a more hybrid deployment that will allow us to monitor local on-premise deployments and connect to different systems. I would like to see more integration."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"Although it's not always the case, the price can sometimes get expensive. This depends on a number of factors, such as how many services you are trying to integrate with Azure Monitor and how much storage they're consuming each month (for example, how large are the log files?)."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"There are certain aspects of the configuration that could be simplified a bit."
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Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while BMC Compuware Strobe is ranked 62nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while BMC Compuware Strobe is rated 8.0. 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 BMC Compuware Strobe writes "Stable with a good database and a good interface". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Grafana, whereas BMC Compuware Strobe is most compared with IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS, IBM Application Performance Management and Mainframe Application Tuner.
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