Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Azure Monitor

Composite Score

8.9 /10

CX Score

9.2 /10

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What is Microsoft Azure Monitor?

Collect, analyse and act on telemetry data from your Azure and on-premises environments. Azure Monitor helps you maximise performance and availability of your applications and proactively identify problems in seconds.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Azure Monitor won the following awards in the Application Performance Management - Enterprise category

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2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2025

Strategy and Innovation
Product Impact

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

3 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

2024

0 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2023

0 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

2022

Microsoft Azure Monitor Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

Product Experience

Negotiation and Contract

Conflict Resolution

Strategy & Innovation

Service Experience

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:: 95%
Negotiation and Contract:: 88%
Conflict Resolution:: 93%
Strategy & Innovation:: 94%
Service Experience:: 94%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Monitor?

1% Negative

2% Neutral

97% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Respectful
Helps Innovate
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Scalability

Transaction Request Performance

Automated Diagnostics

Application Logging

Non-Commodity Operating Systems

Server Monitoring

Domain-Centric AI/ML

Application Discovery

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Microsoft Azure Monitor Reviews

Samuel A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2025

Powerful and Flexible, But Room for Enhanced AI In

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

What sets Microsoft Azure Monitor apart from other similar products is its deep integration with Azure services, providing a seamless experience for monitoring and managing cloud resources within the Microsoft ecosystem.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Microsoft Azure Monitor is its comprehensive and integrated data analytics. The ability to gather detailed logs and performance metrics across multiple services and applications in real-time, and then analyze that data through tools like Log Analytics and Application Insights, is incredibly powerful.

What do you dislike most about this product?

What I dislike most about Microsoft Azure Monitor is its steep learning curve for new users. While the platform offers powerful features, the sheer amount of customization and configuration options can be overwhelming, especially for those who are not already familiar with the Azure ecosystem. It often requires a deep dive into documentation to understand how to make the most of its capabilities, which can be time-consuming.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you're considering Microsoft Azure Monitor, I’d recommend starting by getting familiar with the broader Azure ecosystem, as its deep integration with Azure services makes it more powerful when fully understood. Start small, focusing on basic monitoring, and then scale up as you become more comfortable with its features.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

Emmanuel S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2025

Powerful, but Complex to Implement

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

Microsoft Azure Monitor stands out with seamless Azure integration, comprehensive monitoring, powerful analytics, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. It also offers customizable dashboards, alerts, and enhanced security with Azure Security Center which is a great fit for our organisation

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Microsoft Azure Monitor is its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, allowing users to monitor applications, infrastructure, and security in one unified platform. The integration with Azure services and advanced analytics also provides deep insights and easy troubleshooting.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The aspect I dislike most about Microsoft Azure Monitor is the complexity of setup and configuration, especially for users who are new to Azure. It can be challenging to fully optimize and integrate all features without significant expertise or assistance.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I’d recommend making sure your team has the technical know-how to set up Azure Monitor. It works best when integrated with other Azure services, so start small and scale as you get more comfortable.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Charanjeet S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Smarter Insights Faster Actions With Azure

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

Microsoft Azure Monitor system is compatible with the whole Azure ecosystem. It makes easy to monitor databases, virtual machines, containers and applications on the azure system

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I really like the Log analytics and application insights features. They provide detailed, real time data that helps pinpoint performance bottlenecks and potential failures

What do you dislike most about this product?

The pricing can add up quickly, especially fir organizations collecting large amounts of telemetry data.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Microsoft Azure is the best software solution. They provide online support for any kind of issues in the system

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

Microsoft Azure Monitor Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

Emotional Footprint Overview

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

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Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support Monitoring capabilities for cloud platforms such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Azure ServiceFabric.

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment Supports one or many deployment models - On-prem, cloud or hybrid hosting of the database system.

Scalability Scalability refers to the transaction size per second / time taken to put a transaction in the block and the time taken to reach a consensus.

Transaction Request Performance Tracking the performance of all web and other transactions within your system.

Automated Diagnostics Automated diagnostics providing prebuilt workflows for problem detection, correlation of application behavior and performance, and determination of cause.

Application Logging Capture and store transaction and application data for use in debugging and tracing.

Non-Commodity Operating Systems Non-Commodity Operating Systems capabilities such as AIX, z/OS, Solaris, IBM i, and z/Linux.

Server Monitoring Monitor usage and performance of all application dependencies like databases, servers, containers, web services, caching, etc.

Domain-Centric AI/ML Intelligent algorithms, based on machine learning (ML), analyze different data sets to find connections and relationships between services and infrastructure.

Application Discovery Automated discovery of web servers, application servers, and micro-services, application frameworks, and platforms.

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM) Synthetic front-end monitoring simulates user interactions with online applications, including fully scripted transactions.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Microsoft Azure Monitor Reviews

Samuel A.

Powerful and Flexible, But Room for Enhanced AI In

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Emmanuel S.

Powerful, but Complex to Implement

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Charanjeet S.

Smarter Insights Faster Actions With Azure

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Scalability

Transaction Request Performance

Automated Diagnostics

Application Logging

Non-Commodity Operating Systems

Server Monitoring

Domain-Centric AI/ML

Application Discovery

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)

Vendor Capability Ratings

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Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

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Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

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Vendor Support