We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Sumo Logic Observability 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."Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"The feature that I found most valuable in Azure Monitor is its monitoring abilities. With Azure Monitor, you are able to monitor all of your cloud resources across multiple subscriptions in one dashboard and create solution-specific alerts that can trigger an email to the team responsible for that specific solution."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"One of the most useful aspects of this solution is the out-of-the-box functionality on all areas, especially on Application Insights, zero instrumentation, and artificial intelligence for event correlation."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"The product is easy to learn."
"I have not seen any stability issues in the product."
"The solution allows multiple groups to converge on a unified platform, allowing for different utilization by various teams."
"Alerting and consistency are key. We have different tiers with log collectors, and continuous querying provides near-real-time updates. It's almost like instantly when something happens, like pending transactions or error fees. This helps reduce incident resolution time compared to waiting for thresholds on other platforms. We can continue logging in with them seamlessly and quickly get into action."
"Sumo Logic Observability presents a range of valuable features, including well-crafted dashboards and a diverse selection of helpful apps. However, personally, I don't hold a favorable opinion of the solution. While I don't struggle with writing queries, my main difficulty lies in recruiting competent individuals and ensuring their proficiency in utilizing the solution. This often leads to additional challenges and complexities. From my perspective, when compared to Microsoft Sentinel or even Splunk, Sumo Logic Observability has a steeper learning curve. One contributing factor to this disparity is the solution's long existence in the market compared to Synlogic. Nevertheless, I acknowledge that there are capable and knowledgeable professionals employed at Sumo Logic Observability. The effectiveness of the solution largely depends on how it is integrated into your internal operations and environment. Its utility and benefits can vary significantly. It is worth noting that organizations like the NSA and, I believe, the CIA used it in the past, primarily for rapidly searching and analyzing large volumes of data. To leverage its capabilities effectively, you must determine how to tailor it to your specific needs."
"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."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"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."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"SearchUI.exe is a bit clunky in the product, making it an area where the product needs improvements."
"Fine-grained data can be quite frustrating to work with and should be made easier."
"Implementing a more streamlined enrichment process, and conceptualizing the observability data collection as an ETL pipeline would be helpful."
"Documentation could be better. While it's generally good, sometimes finding what you need requires extensive searching. It's not always clear where to look for specific things."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Sumo Logic Observability is ranked 29th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 5 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Sumo Logic Observability is rated 8.0. 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 Sumo Logic Observability writes "Easy creation of custom fields, no need to alter applications; supports ten active logging applications simultaneously and faster than aster than default search tools". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Grafana, whereas Sumo Logic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Prometheus and Chronosphere. See our Azure Monitor vs. Sumo Logic Observability report.
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