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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 (21st), Cloud Monitoring Software (12th)
CA CEM [EOL]
Average Rating
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
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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…

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

Pros

"Azure Monitor does a better job of integrating with Microsoft, which is one of its main selling points."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"From a business standpoint, I think the ability to see where your users are is valuable."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"This is a good enough product for anyone wanting something that might not be top of the range but it does the work easily, is simple to configure and is a fair price."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It provides a powerful network analysis both with individual transactions and general network performance."
 

Cons

"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"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 default interface should be improved."
"The technical support could be improved - their response time can be quite slow."
"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."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"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

"The tool is expensive."
"Azure Monitor is a low-priced solution, which is why it would work best on small-scale projects."
"The cost of Azure Monitor application performance should be less expensive."
"The product offers a pay-as-you-go model to users. The charges are to be paid according to the usage of the product."
"The solution is a pay-as-you-go consumption service and is the least expensive in the market."
"Azure Monitor is one of the more cost effective solutions on the market."
"It's a costly solution"
"Azure Monitor is cheaper compared to other third-party monitoring tools."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
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Small Business
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Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise29
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