We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Honeycomb.io 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."I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"Technical support is helpful."
"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."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"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?)."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"Enhancing and reaching a level of detail that facilitates pinpointing and addressing issues at such a refined level within the application and database components would be helpful."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Honeycomb.io is ranked 35th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Honeycomb.io 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 Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Instana Dynamic APM, whereas Honeycomb.io is most compared with Grafana, Sentry, Chronosphere, New Relic and Datadog.
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