We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Microsoft System Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ease of configuration and the easy discovery of the environment."
"I like the automated features of it that let you schedule those updates and the ability of the product to focus on the specific updates, specific platforms, and products that we're interested in keeping up to date."
"Many processes could be implemented out-of-the-box, and this helped to adopt processes in areas which we lacked."
"The installation process is easy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it helps us manage our company's application pool, license pool, application update pool, and OS updates."
"System Center helps to create the basis for ITIL alignment."
"The availability performance matrix and the reporting capabilities are the solution's most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft System Center is its GUI (graphical user interface)."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"The default interface should be improved."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"As a younger product it still has room for feature improvement and enhancement."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"For me, the tool's UI seems to be too old."
"Something super important that we need is this integration via Intune Configuration Manager."
"In Microsoft System Center, it is difficult to follow the steps to create dataflows at times."
"The solution's dashboard needs improvement."
"System Center hasn't updated to keep up with the industry. It needs improvements in the user interface, ease of use, and overall product functionality, particularly the cloud-monitoring features. It needs more capabilities to monitor AWS and Azure infrastructure."
"Could be more user friendly."
"The platform's performance could be improved. Additionally, its UI needs to be well-upgraded and work faster."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
Azure Monitor is ranked 5th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 44 reviews while Microsoft System Center is ranked 29th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 18 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Microsoft System Center 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 Microsoft System Center writes "Makes user management and application management easy for users". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Grafana, whereas Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite. See our Azure Monitor vs. Microsoft System Center report.
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