We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and OpenText Diagnostics 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 use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"Among the valuable features of this solution, Application Insights stands out as one of the most significant. It provides insights into application performance and helps identify issues and bottlenecks."
"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."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"I am monitoring all of my Azure Monitor and getting good reports. I can customize the reports to get the information I need. I am also getting emails about which AAS instances are down and everything in the system related to my services. It is easy to use, scalable, and user-friendly. Microsoft has Many guides and videos to help you understand how to create and use Azure Monitor."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus Diagnostics is the information reported from an application that has timed out. For example, when you're Googling, or you're booking a ticket for Burj Khalifa here, the longest tower in the world, there are situations where the system can time out. There are times when you might not receive a response on the payment gateway or you are not able to find the reservation. The customer only receives the information that the session has timed out."
"For banking and telecom solutions, it's been quite useful."
"The diagnostics and configuration are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"The query builder could be better. In comparison to other monitoring tools, in order to use Azure Monitor, your engineers need to have KQL experience. If they don't, it's not intuitive as a system."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"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."
"The GUI and metrics of Micro Focus Diagnostics can be improved. The metrics the solution gathers can be limited and could be enhanced by giving more details."
"The interface could be more user friendly."
"The interface is very old, and not very user-friendly. Most of our clients don't like the UI."
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Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while OpenText Diagnostics is ranked 33rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while OpenText Diagnostics is rated 7.8. 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 OpenText Diagnostics writes "Very good for transaction level monitoring, but expensive and HP needs better support and training". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Grafana, whereas OpenText Diagnostics is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and Accedian Skylight.
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