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

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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?

2% Negative

1% Neutral

97% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Respectful
Helps Innovate
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Scalability

Transaction Request Performance

Application Logging

Server Monitoring

Automated Diagnostics

Application Discovery

Non-Commodity Operating Systems

Domain-Centric AI/ML

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

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Microsoft Azure Monitor Reviews

Varun S.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

Powerful Monitoring tool with Azure integration

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

Its wide range of capabilities across Azure services. Offers a broad scope, monitor applications, infrastructure and services across Azure ecosystems'.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Favorite aspect of this product is scalability. it can handle large volume of data from multiple sources, suitable for business of all sizes.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Its complexity for new users., The extensive features and capabilities can make initial set up and configuration overwhelming.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Familiarize yourself with this tool with documentation and tutorials. Understanding the basics will help you to make the most of it. Also integrate with other tools in your DevOps pipeline for streamlined workflow.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Mary W.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Azure Monitor protects our cloud ecosystem

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

An easy way to monitor our Microsoft Azure infrastructure is through Azure Monitor. Metrics, logs, and performance data are covered, which helps in tracking. To achieve our operational efficiency goals, we chose Azure Monitor because it is a secure and affordable option.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like their excellent incident communication systems, well-designed dashboards for various monitoring activities, and overall smooth operation. This is a fantastic tool to keep track of all my company logins and make the tracking process much simpler.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Sometimes it becomes slow due to too much data, certain operations have too few activities to complete, and there are too many alternatives that could be consolidated into a single dashboard.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

One of the best features is how it makes it easy to collect and analyze various types of data, metric logs, and the like. Thanks to it, we can track performance from a single platform. It significantly improves the performance of our application.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service

Hilary B.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Robust APM together with Azure Security

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

Azure Monitor It is an effective instrument to monitor Azure cloud configurations. It has many features to monitor aspects such as health, performance and security. It enables advanced automation and analytics and works seamlessly with other Azure services such as Azure Application Insights.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Together with Azure Monitor we can monitor the health, behavior and performance of applications and the IT environment to ensure reliable, secure and optimal operations.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The learning curve and complexity of the Azure ecosystem can be substantial for those new to it. There will be an adjustment period and expense management considerations for configurations and adjustment solutions.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Monitoring the performance, health, and security of Azure infrastructure, applications, and resources is simplified with this comprehensive, centralized monitoring solution.

Pros

Efficient Service
Inspires Innovation
Appreciates Incumbent Status
Security Protects

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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

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Monitor?

Pros

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Varun S.

Powerful Monitoring tool with Azure integration

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Mary W.

Azure Monitor protects our cloud ecosystem

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Hilary B.

Robust APM together with Azure Security

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Scalability

Transaction Request Performance

Application Logging

Server Monitoring

Automated Diagnostics

Application Discovery

Non-Commodity Operating Systems

Domain-Centric AI/ML

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support