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

Eric M.

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

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Azure has made it easier to monitor processes

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

Azure has helped us understand the health and efficiency of networks and applications. Intelligent alerts, powerful analytics and real-time performance monitoring are some of its features that have helped us the most.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like that metrics and logs are provided to monitor resource performance and identify problems. We know how our Azure resources, applications, and other components are performing in real time and what state they are in.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Azure Monitor has the potential to generate an overwhelming number of notifications if not configured with caution. The amount of accessible historical data may be limited by data retention policies. Support for many clouds is limited.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I really like Azure Monitor. Processes and transactions connected to the ADF can now be easily monitored.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service
Friendly Negotiation

Shivam P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2024

Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

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What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Microsoft Cloud Services

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing to dislike

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Highly Ease to use

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

Roxana S.

Role: Industry Specific Role
Industry: Retail
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2024

"The best unified experience."

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?

The unified dashboard and consolidated alerts that provide a unified experience, making it easier to manage and troubleshoot applications effectively.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It is as easy as selecting the resource you want to monitor, then choose the metrics with a couple of clicks, then decide how you want to be notified.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Configuration can come off as complex for some services.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is a must have service especially while troubleshooting and cost cutting.

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

+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

Eric M.

Azure has made it easier to monitor processes

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Shivam P.

Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Roxana S.

"The best unified experience."

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