We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Instana Dynamic APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on user feedback, Azure Monitor is the preferred choice when compared to Instana Dynamic APM. Users appreciate the wide range of valuable features offered by Azure Monitor, including integration with Visual Studio, Power BI, and other Microsoft technologies. They also find Azure Monitor to have robust monitoring abilities, easy data export, and out-of-the-box functionality.
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"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 initial setup is straightforward."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"Azure Monitor is very stable."
"You can scale the product."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"The detailing of our application behavior and user experience is most valuable. In case there is an issue, we typically use Instana to figure it out. We can drill down to the application and figure out what's going on and where the issue is."
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."
"It is a stable solution."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"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."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality"
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 20th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4. 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 Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus and Sentry, whereas Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, IBM Application Performance Management and Prometheus. See our Azure Monitor vs. Instana Dynamic APM report.
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