Azure Monitor Reviews & Product Details

Azure Monitor is a comprehensive monitoring solution designed to maximize the availability and performance of applications and services across cloud and on-premises environments. It collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry data, providing deep insights into system behavior and facilitating proactive issue resolution. By offering end-to-end observability, Azure Monitor enables organizations to maintain optimal operational health and enhance user experiences. Key Features and Functionality: - Unified Monitoring: Azure Monitor provides a centralized platform to monitor applications, infrastructure, and networks, offering a holistic view of system performance. - Data Collection and Analysis: It collects diverse telemetry data, including metrics, logs, and traces, and utilizes powerful analytics tools to identify trends and anomalies. - Visualization Tools: The service offers customizable dashboards and workbooks, enabling users to visualize data effectively and gain actionable insights. - Alerting and Automation: Azure Monitor supports near-real-time alerts and automated responses, allowing for prompt issue detection and resolution. - Integration Capabilities: It seamlessly integrates with Azure services, third-party tools, and on-premises systems, ensuring flexibility and extensibility. Primary Value and Problem Solving: Azure Monitor addresses the critical need for comprehensive observability in complex IT environments. By providing real-time insights and proactive monitoring, it helps organizations: - Enhance Performance: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks swiftly, ensuring optimal application and service delivery. - Ensure Availability: Detect and mitigate issues before they impact users, maintaining high availability and reliability. - Optimize Resources: Analyze usage patterns to make informed decisions about resource allocation and cost management. - Support Compliance: Maintain security and compliance standards through continuous monitoring and auditing capabilities. By leveraging Azure Monitor, organizations can achieve operational excellence, improve user satisfaction, and drive business success through informed, data-driven decisions.

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Microsoft

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Solution Type

All-in-One

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

15 months

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Average based on 107 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

3 months

Perceived Cost

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Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/15/2022

"Azure Monitoring"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Monitor?

Azure monitor is service in the cloud that help increase performance, availability and troubleshooting the application. It collecting data from log analytic, Application insight , event hub. It can collect the logs from on- premises environment too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Monitor?

Limitations of Alert Rules and Lack of notification channel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Albin L.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/30/2020

"Azure Insights is the swiss army knife of monitoring and alerting"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Monitor?

It has provided us with everything we need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Monitor?

It is only applicable to Azure resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Monitor:

Learn how to use the tool and you'll open a whole new world in terms of monitoring resources. It also goes well directly with queries coming from log analytics and you'll also be able to monitor more details regarding the resource. The tool is easily setup and it would be great to do split stats by country, device, and many more. This will also provide you with alerts and it acts as a good APM and RUM for your applications running on Azure. Having a single view of everything in terms of performance of a single resource is very helpful in understanding how the resource is performing specifically if you want to check on a per country or per device basis, then this tool is very very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Monitor solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us with our manpower issue in terms of monitoring our resources in Azure. We realized that with proper monitoring and a good dashboard, we are able to see what is happening on our resources without much manpower needed. It has also helped us with timely alerts whenever our resources are having issues. It also shows us splits of performance of our resources based on countries and devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Taskal S.

Senior System Administrator

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/9/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Works best for Platform Log Management"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Monitor?

Kusti queries is the best to query the logs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Monitor?

If we change the table schema it corrupt the table. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Montasir Hasan C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/26/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Azure Monitor Service"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Monitor?

What I like the best is that Microsoft gives base-level framework measurements and logs for most administrations in Microsoft Azure. It is future good Azure Services that don't yet place their information into Azure Monitor will put it there later on. It permits us to give complete alarming and observing of Azure infra. I can see every time a process from my scheduled tasks has run and easily dive into the results from each process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Monitor?

It is very tedious to assemble all the measurements. It isn't yet perfect with all items starting at yet. They are attempting to furnish similarity with all items. The interface to azure can be slow and it sometimes takes a while to dig into the results and see all the relevant data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Monitor:

It gives far-reaching experiences about logs, errors and assists with arranging alerts for additional remediation. It is a piece tedious and comprehensive to configure all the metrics. I would recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Monitor solving and how is that benefiting you?

I conveyed a script that ran on azure functions every 30 minutes, and the monitor had the option to tell me the outcomes after each run. I didn't just have a local log document, the advantage was that the logs and all the program execution information were accessible on the cloud. Managed Services Monitoring of Azure Infra. I screen numerous measurements utilizing this. For data about any of my asset, the screen log contains data, for example, times when assets are made or crushed. So this encourages me to monitor any assets made or wrecked. I can alter our inclinations as indicated by the costing anticipated later on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Prashant C.

Azure Architect | Assistant Vice President

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/29/2020

"I have 11 yrs of IT experience and working on the Microsoft Azure"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Monitor?

Microsoft monitoring one place where you can connect all the monitoring data that can help to monitor the Azure services. Especially log analytics give us a wide range of monitoring of the log using the query language. Also, Azure Advisor helps to manage the environment as per the best practice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Monitor?

At this moment nothing is to dislike as we are availing Azure monitoring and we are happy to use it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Monitor:

I will say the perfect product for infra management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Monitor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using Azure monitoring we analyze the application logs and if something goes wrong with the application so that log will give us a great picture of the exact problem. Subscription activity is logs integration with the log analytics that will help to find out the change on the subscription and resource level. Also auditing to the environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Catherine S.

SRE

3/24/2021

"New to Azure Monitoring and so far I like what I see"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Monitor?

Love AppInsights it is very helpful in tracking down user issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Monitor?

I have not spent a lot of time with it but don't see a lot of dashboarding and reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Dr. Jonathan R.

Senior Coiled Tubing Engineer & Human Resource Ad

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/11/2020

"It allows me to optimize the performance of many applications and detect problems in a short time"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Monitor?

It is very useful for processes that involve saving and analyzing the telemetry of operations in a very optimal way. It allows us to know and rule out our suspicions of undetected data or factors using its advanced analysis engine. It can also be integrated with DevOps tools and other IT service management processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Monitor?

As it is a very robust utility, not anyone can handle it. You must have experience in handling similar processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Monitor:

It is ideal if the final purpose is to analyze and optimize the redemption of a virtual machine and database infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Monitor solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has helped us a lot in the management and supervision of the availability, operation, performance and use of the web applications that we have on our local server, while being able to trace the flows and the response times of metrics in real time and its events Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Information Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/3/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"First class monitoring for Azure"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Monitor?

Monitor has the right mix of predefined thresholds and extensibility to allow you to monitor any Azure workload. VM Insights especially, gives you head start in monitor your iaas workloads Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Monitor?

I'm not a big fan of how long it takes some alerts to generate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Monitor:

Don't try and replicate your on premises monitor. Cloud is not the same Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Monitor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Monitor enables us to maintain the health of our iaas and paas resources. We also centralise the storage of our DSC logs and are able to query them across all machines at once Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Investment Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Updated 7/28/2020

Originally submitted 6/28/2020

"Azure Architect, helping business to leverage Azure Monitor and other offerings"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Monitor?

There are many features recently added to Azure Monitor from earlier OMS.

1) Alert

2) Ease of access

3) Infrastructure monitoring with LA

4) Application Insight integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Monitor?

As K8s is going to be a buzzword and many businesses are considering it for active use cases, container monitoring experience can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/20/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Azure Monitor - One Solution to lot of problems"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Monitor?

Azure Monitor has got lot of great capabilities, But the best one I like is Log Analytics. It gives option to not only have issues fixed for cloud based resources but Onpremise as well. Seamless integration with multiple options for the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Monitor?

Nothing major to be disliked, work should be done for Application based monitoring like Sharepoint, Exchange, Citrix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Monitor:

Plan your monitoring requirement in advance and have a concrete approach in advance. Segregate your production servers and application to have critical component covered under monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Monitor solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have used Appinsight product to monitor our cloud based web applications. It was a very good experience with easy implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.