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Azure Monitor vs Riverbed NPM+ comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Azure Monitor
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
3rd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
55
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (4th)
Riverbed NPM+
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
48th
Average Rating
0.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (90th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Azure Monitor is 5.9%, down from 8.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Riverbed NPM+ is 0.3%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Muhammad Usman Khawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Native integration simplifies monitoring but documentation and cost improvements are needed
The ease of access in Azure is significant since it's native to the platform and easy to integrate. It has no maintenance overhead, and users don't have to navigate to another portal to get their desired result. It's the handiness that it has, rather than the features. The interpretation from the logs and injection requires custom runbooks. While it's complex, many services provide native insights and workbooks. It does the basic job quite efficiently. They added new kinds of metrics with more integrations to send out metrics. They have even added support for third-party tools that can be integrated. Azure Monitor is working on improvements and becoming more mature. Azure Monitor is stable and scalable. Azure Monitor is evolving with new workbooks and dashboards.
Akhilesh Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps to easily troubleshoot issues and fix it
If the backend server and application servers are not responding properly, users can use the tool to find out the issue. It also helps to find out where the issue is happening. Customers can easily troubleshoot the issue and fix it.  Alluvio Network Performance Management is good for…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The security and support are good."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"Some good integration capabilities are present in the tool."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"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."
"What I like about Azure Monitor is that it performs well."
"It allows you to set thresholds on the metrics and receive alerts."
"Alluvio Network Performance Management is good for troubleshooting."
 

Cons

"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"n comparison to New Relic, which I've used before, it's a bit more complicated. It's not as easy to use. It also took some time to get it working. The implementation needs to be simpler."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"The product should integrate well with other tools or clouds in the future, as it is one of the areas where the product currently has certain shortcomings."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"Alluvio Network Performance Management is good for troubleshooting."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution’s pricing depends on how much logs it collects."
"Its cost depends on the ingestion of the logs. It could go anywhere. For an out-of-the-box platform such as FrameFlow, you pay pretty much a fixed price and you get what you get, whereas, with something like Azure Monitor, you pay by the ingestion charge, so you can have one client who pays hardly anything for the same alerts, and another client pays loads and loads."
"The solution is a pay-as-you-go consumption service and is the least expensive in the market."
"Azure Monitor is a low-priced solution, which is why it would work best on small-scale projects."
"Azure Monitor is a competitively priced solution."
"The price of the solution is reasonable."
"It's a costly solution"
"My company is okay with the current pricing of the solution."
"The tool's pricing is high and I would rate it one out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Retailer
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
What do you like most about Azure Monitor?
Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment.
What needs improvement with Azure Monitor?
The primary challenge is the documentation. The major challenge that remains is the costing factor for the logs ingestion. The cost skyrockets once you start using it, and there are complaints that...
What do you like most about Alluvio Network Performance Management?
Alluvio Network Performance Management is good for troubleshooting.
What needs improvement with Alluvio Network Performance Management?
The tool needs to add monitoring features for threats and vulnerabilities. It should also add database activity monitoring features.
 

Comparisons

 

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Alluvio Network Performance Management
 

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Sample Customers

Rackspace, First Gas, Allscripts, ABB Group
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