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Azure Monitor vs CA CEM [EOL] comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Monitor
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (13th), Cloud Monitoring Software (8th)
CA CEM [EOL]
Average Rating
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

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.
it_user305787 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It provides a powerful network analysis both with individual transactions and general network performance. We've had lots of hardware issues with the MPMs.
It provides a powerful network analysis both with individual transactions and general network performance We've found that it really helps managers in measuring application SLAs and viewing historical performance data. We've had lots of hardware issues with the MPMs. It's difficult to segregate…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"Some good integration capabilities are present in the tool."
"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."
"Azure Monitor has made it much easier for us to constantly monitor the infrastructure and applications with possible problems."
"I can conclude reports for the monthly, weekly, and peak time of the resources."
"It provides a powerful network analysis both with individual transactions and general network performance."
 

Cons

"Using Azure Monitor and Azure Arc separately to monitor different environments can be complicated."
"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."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"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 pricing model could be more flexible."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"I would like more transparency when we use the solution with another environment, like on-premises, or on another cloud environment, like AWS or GCP."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"In our experience, technical support has been slow. We’ve been plagued with hardware issues, which have been on-going for a long time and which is going through CA to a separate partner, who then needs to deal with another local partner company for hardware."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its cost depends on the ingestion of the logs. It could go anywhere. For an out-of-the-box platform such as FrameFlow, you pay pretty much a fixed price and you get what you get, whereas, with something like Azure Monitor, you pay by the ingestion charge, so you can have one client who pays hardly anything for the same alerts, and another client pays loads and loads."
"I would rate Azure Monitor a two out of five for affordability."
"The product offers a pay-as-you-go model to users. The charges are to be paid according to the usage of the product."
"Customers of Azure Monitor must pay an amount that depends largely on how many services they need to integrate and the storage space required in terms of logs, etc. If they only have a few small services to monitor, the price won't be too high, but on the opposite side of the spectrum, it can certainly get pricey."
"It is a pay-as-you-go model. I find it very cost-effective."
"Azure Monitor is one of the more cost effective solutions on the market."
"The cost of Azure Monitor application performance should be less expensive."
"The solution’s pricing depends on how much logs it collects."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
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Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise29
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Questions from the Community

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