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Azure Monitor vs Sysdig Monitor comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Monitor
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
5th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
Number of Reviews
53
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (4th)
Sysdig Monitor
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
36th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Container Monitoring (10th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (19th)
 

Featured Reviews

Swapan Biswas - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 29, 2022
A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement
Our company is a service integrator and we use the solution to monitor logs, metrics, and applications for customers. We have 200 users throughout our company.  The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use. We can do metric monitoring, log monitoring, and prepare queries to…
Md. Olid Hasan Bhuiyan - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 19, 2024
Provides a good view of the sequence and offers in-depth visibility into my infrastructure
During my undergraduate studies, I investigated how the frequency or order of actions within a specific system triggered events on our website. To achieve this, I effectively used Sysdig Monitor to track the health of my containerized environment, essentially acting as a central monitoring station…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is a robust, stable product."
"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."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"You can scale the product."
"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."
"I find the query language in this tool very beneficial, as it allows me to customize some dashboards and create alerts according to my thresholds and metrics."
"Technical support is helpful."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"Docker containers are completely supported, kind of like "first class citizens"."
"The ability to stop/pause and capture logs when something happens is the most valuable feature."
"Sysdig Monitor impressed me with its in-depth visibility into my infrastructure."
 

Cons

"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."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"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."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"There are a lot of things that take more time to do, such as charting, alerting, and correlation of data, and things like that. Azure Monitor doesn't tell you why something happened. It just tells you that it happened. It should also have some type of AI. Environments and applications are becoming more and more complex every day with hundreds or thousands of microservices. Therefore, having to do a lot of the stuff manually takes a lot of time, and on top of that, troubleshooting issues takes a lot of time. The traditional method of troubleshooting doesn't really work for or apply to this environment we're in. So, having an AI-based system and the ability to automate deployments of your monitoring and configurations makes it much easier."
"I would like more transparency when we use the solution with another environment, like on-premises, or on another cloud environment, like AWS or GCP."
""Events" reporting (errors, crashes, etc.) is not clear at all in a Mesos environment (i.e., it's not clear what specific container is the one that went down). In a Docker Compose environment, it may be way better."
"It is needs to automate the actions to take when an alert is triggered."
"I had difficulty installing Sysdig Monitor on Windows."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The Azure Insight is a little bit expensive."
"The tool's pricing is very good. I could say that Microsoft offers different cost models, which are listed on the product's website."
"Since we are using the basic set, it is more cost-effective compared to other third-party APM solutions."
"There is a monthly fee for the alerts triggered and the data stored."
"The solution is expensive, but it is worth the price."
"The tool is expensive."
"Azure Monitor is a competitively priced solution."
"I would rate Azure Monitor a two out of five for affordability."
"Sysdig Monitor is not expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
7%
University
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 pricing model could be more flexible. It is not very clear, and the current model used by Microsoft for this component could be adjusted to be more customer-friendly.
What needs improvement with Sysdig Monitor?
I needed to identify the sequence and frequency of system calls for a specific system. Sysdig provided this information readily. However, analyzing frequency proved more challenging. As far as I kn...
What is your primary use case for Sysdig Monitor?
During my undergraduate studies, I investigated how the frequency or order of actions within a specific system triggered events on our website. To achieve this, I effectively used Sysdig Monitor to...
 

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Sample Customers

Rackspace, First Gas, Allscripts, ABB Group
SAP Concur, Goldman Sachs, Worldpay by FIS, Cisco, Experian, Home Office, Societe Generale, Sunrun. More here: https://sysdig.com/customers/
Find out what your peers are saying about Azure Monitor vs. Sysdig Monitor and other solutions. Updated: October 2024.
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