We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and SolarWinds Pingdom based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"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."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"The default interface should be improved."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"have used multiple products like Webex and PRTG. Some features could be added. Azure Monitor should add SMS and APIs. We have very limited access to Azure Monitor. I usually get alerts on my phone when they are integrated with Slack. I am not always available, but my team is. Sometimes, I am traveling and don't have access to my email, but I have Slack and other third-party projects that send me instant messages if a sensor goes down."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 47th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds Pingdom 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 SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Honeycomb.io, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Grafana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our Azure Monitor vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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